Keyword selection in iPhoto generates incorrect list.

Subject: Keyword selection in iPhoto generates incorrect list.
From: Chris Glowacki <email@hidden>
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:05:44 -0800

All,

this script (intended to export to a user-chosen folder all 'keyed' photos into subfolders named by keyword)

tell application "iPhoto"

activate

set key_list to every keyword whose name does not start with "_"

set new_folder to (choose folder) as alias

repeat with this_key in key_list

set plist to (every photo whose keywords contains this_key)

set photocount to count of plist

if photocount is not 0 then

set new_name to name of this_key

tell application "Finder"

try

set this_folder to make new folder at new_folder with properties {name:new_name}

display dialog "wait"

end try

end tell

set move_list to {}

repeat with this_photo in plist

set cpath to image path of this_photo as POSIX file as alias

if move_list does not contain cpath then

set end of move_list to cpath

end if

end repeat

tell application "Finder"

duplicate move_list to folder new_name of folder new_folder

end tell

end if

end repeat

end tell

seems to generate an odd list (here called 'plist')

The result of set plist to (every photo whose keywords contains this_key) is a list with the first photo missing, and the 2nd photo entered twice - is this a bug? is photo 1 being over-written? is my syntax incorrect? Does anyone have any bright ideas?

Here is what it generates (partial event log dump)

tell application "iPhoto"

activate

get every keyword whose name does not start with "_"

{keyword "Key_1", keyword "Key_2", keyword "Key_3", keyword "Key_4", keyword "Key_5"}

choose folder

alias "Main:Users:chrisg:Desktop:ExportHere:"

get every photo whose every keyword contains keyword "Key_1"

{photo id 4.294967425E+9, photo id 4.294967425E+9, photo id 4.294967426E+9, photo id 4.294967427E+9, photo id 4.294967428E+9, photo id 4.294967429E+9, photo id 4.29496743E+9, photo id 4.294967431E+9, photo id 4.294967432E+9, photo id 4.294967433E+9, photo id 4.294967434E+9, photo id 4.294967435E+9, photo id 4.294967436E+9, photo id 4.294967437E+9, photo id 4.294967438E+9, photo id 4.294967439E+9, photo id 4.29496744E+9, photo id 4.294967441E+9, photo id 4.294967442E+9, photo id 4.294967443E+9, photo id 4.294967444E+9, photo id 4.294967445E+9, photo id 4.294967446E+9, photo id 4.294967447E+9, photo id 4.294967448E+9}

get name of keyword "Key_1"

"Key_1"

thanks

chris

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