Re: import photos into iphoto action hanging
Re: import photos into iphoto action hanging
- Subject: Re: import photos into iphoto action hanging
- From: Mike Ashley <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 17:15:35 -0500
On May 11, 2005, at 3:01 PM, Brian Lalor wrote:
Good afternoon, all. I'm trying to put together a workflow to copy
images off a compact flash card (via a card reader) into a local
directory, and then import those images into iPhoto. When I add
the "Import Photos into iPhoto" action to my workflow (even when
it's the only action) Automator does the spinning beachball thing,
and doesn't come back. At least, it doesn't come back in any
reasonable amount of time. I've got 3-4 thousand images in my
iPhoto library, as I recall. When I do the same steps on my
powerbook with only 2 images in the library, it comes back, but
slowly.
I know this has been reported as a bug with Apple, but I'm
wondering if anyone's found a work-around? I'm thinking this
fairly simple action can be performed via applescript, so I could
probably cobble that together without too much work, but I was
hoping for a less drastic work-around.
I don't know of a simpler workaround.
In general, I've found that whenever an action that shipped with
Automator doesn't work, I can always get the same thing to happen by
writing my own code. I have no idea why my own code works and the
equivalent automator action does not.
Automator workflows appear to be real dogs, performance-wise. Again,
I have no idea why. I had a workflow that would extract and about
270 images from my iPhoto library and save them to a folder. There
was no image processing involved. That workflow alone took several
minutes to run on my machine, and almost all of the time was spent in
the one applescript action I had that talked to iPhoto and Finder.
So it may be that you need to be more patient.
Mike
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