iPhoto not importing JPEG’s converted from M240 DNG’s

[wlaidlaw]

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I recently acquired a year old but unused MacBook Pro Retina 15” model. The company’s IT dept had bought a whole lot of the top model and ticked every upgrade box, just prior to the company downsizing - typical. It had only had 6 cycles on it, while the IT was setting it up. I cloned my old 13” MBP over to it. The old MBP was struggling with PS CC, saying it did not have enough video memory, which at only 256MB is not upgradable.

 

I had a few problems getting a recovery disc set up and in the end had to reinstall Mavericks from the App Store. However the main issue arrived when I tried to tidy up the hard disc and import a whole lot of M240 JPEG’s into iPhoto, from the output folder on my Capture One session. The recipe I had used to convert these from DNG’s in Capture One, applied the embedded camera profile as the colour space. iPhoto refused to import these, saying the files were of an incompatible file type. I tried everything, deleting plists, caches, rebuilding the libraries, starting a new library for a new test user, reinstalling iPhoto but nothing worked. The files opened fine in other programs.

 

Finally I left a query on the Apple Support Forum. A very helpful high contributor suggested that I try reassigning a different colour space in PS and try importing one test image again. It worked. I therefore set up an action in PS to apply ProPhoto colour space, save and close the file, then used the batch automator to convert all my JPEG’s that would not import to iPhoto.

 

Hopefully this might of use to someone else who might be scratching their head over this.

 

Wilson

[kdriceman]

I recently acquired a year old but unused MacBook Pro Retina 15” model. The company’s IT dept had bought a whole lot of the top model and ticked every upgrade box, just prior to the company downsizing - typical. It had only had 6 cycles on it, while the IT was setting it up. I cloned my old 13” MBP over to it. The old MBP was struggling with PS CC, saying it did not have enough video memory, which at only 256MB is not upgradable.

 

I had a few problems getting a recovery disc set up and in the end had to reinstall Mavericks from the App Store. However the main issue arrived when I tried to tidy up the hard disc and import a whole lot of M240 JPEG’s into iPhoto, from the output folder on my Capture One session. The recipe I had used to convert these from DNG’s in Capture One, applied the embedded camera profile as the colour space. iPhoto refused to import these, saying the files were of an incompatible file type. I tried everything, deleting plists, caches, rebuilding the libraries, starting a new library for a new test user, reinstalling iPhoto but nothing worked. The files opened fine in other programs.

 

Finally I left a query on the Apple Support Forum. A very helpful high contributor suggested that I try reassigning a different colour space in PS and try importing one test image again. It worked. I therefore set up an action in PS to apply ProPhoto colour space, save and close the file, then used the batch automator to convert all my JPEG’s that would not import to iPhoto.

 

Hopefully this might of use to someone else who might be scratching their head over this.

 

Wilson

 

 

I don't think I can help other than to say the Gods are watching over you. I abandoned iPhoto for everything a couple years ago because of the way it handles the files and locks down the database. I had multiple iPhoto glitches and there is no way to access your images without opening an iPhoto library. When iPhoto wouldn't launch, I was stuck because the images were embedded in the library.

 

I do everything on Lightroom now, but even the free Picasa is better in my opinion.

 

 

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[wlaidlaw]

I don't think I can help other than to say the Gods are watching over you. I abandoned iPhoto for everything a couple years ago because of the way it handles the files and locks down the database. I had multiple iPhoto glitches and there is no way to access your images without opening an iPhoto library. When iPhoto wouldn't launch, I was stuck because the images were embedded in the library.

 

I do everything on Lightroom now, but even the free Picasa is better in my opinion.

 

 

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I know, I know but there are so many convenient things that iPhoto does. I wish someone had come up with a better image library system for Macs and goodness knows I have looked at enough of them. Adobe Bridge probably comes closest but it is still not very good at organising and grouping photos quickly and easily, which is iPhoto’s forte. I do use a couple of ancillary tools, which I have found useful. iPhoto Library Manager as I have multiple libraries and iPhoto Extractor for hooking groups of images out of the rather impenetrable iPhoto library.

 

Wilson

[kdriceman]

I know, I know but there are so many convenient things that iPhoto does. I wish someone had come up with a better image library system for Macs and goodness knows I have looked at enough of them. Adobe Bridge probably comes closest but it is still not very good at organising and grouping photos quickly and easily, which is iPhoto’s forte. I do use a couple of ancillary tools, which I have found useful. iPhoto Library Manager as I have multiple libraries and iPhoto Extractor for hooking groups of images out of the rather impenetrable iPhoto library.

 

 

 

Wilson

 

 

Still, I don't understand why iPhoto wouldn't import a JPEGs. Will it import non-240 JPEGs?

 

 

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[kdriceman]

I know, I know but there are so many convenient things that iPhoto does. I wish someone had come up with a better image library system for Macs and goodness knows I have looked at enough of them. Adobe Bridge probably comes closest but it is still not very good at organising and grouping photos quickly and easily, which is iPhoto’s forte. I do use a couple of ancillary tools, which I have found useful. iPhoto Library Manager as I have multiple libraries and iPhoto Extractor for hooking groups of images out of the rather impenetrable iPhoto library.

 

 

 

Wilson

 

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[wlaidlaw]

Still, I don't understand why iPhoto wouldn't import a JPEGs. Will it import non-240 JPEGs?

 

 

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It is the embedded camera profile from the M240, listed as “65535” on the EXIF information on Photoshop, that Capture One assigns if you don’t opt for a different colour space on the output recipe for JPEG’s and TiFF’s that is the problem. I don’t know how this crept in, as I have opted for ProPhoto or ECiV4 for years, it must have been changed by one of the updates to Capture One.

 

iPhoto 9.5.1 running on Mavericks for a Retina MacBook Pro is apparently fussy on the colour spaces it will accept on JPEG’s, as it is designed to use sRGB. However it will accept Adobe RGB (1998) and ProPhoto. If you use other colour spaces, It may find the files incompatible. I have not tried ECiV4 but as it is very similar to ProPhoto, it may work. I am not too worried about the appearance in iPhoto, as I only use it as a library, organiser and storage. Any work I do on images, printing, saving for clients etc, I do with Photoshop CC.

 

Wilson