iPhoto Tip: Working with Hidden photos

[jdr999]

Here's a quick tip I just discovered!

I wanted to unhide all my hidden photos and give them a rating of 1 instead.

I created a Smart Album with the criteria
Photo = Hidden

Select All
Unhide Photos
My Rating 1


For the life of me I couldn't figure out how to search for hiddens!!

 

[Father Jack]

Why would you want to hide your photos? ....

Or shouldn't I ask ..

 

[jdr999]

No, the new iPhoto has a feature to hide pictures you don't always want to see and don't want to delete -- the less than perfect ones.

However hidden photos are excluded from many operations hence I decided to filter them out with a low rating instead. The hidden feature is a neat idea, but not completely practical to use.

And I thought it was commonplace on a Mac to keep all unmentionables in a password protected disk image!

 

[flyinmac]

Thank you for the tip. Exactly what I needed just now.

I tried hiding a picture once (following Steve Jobs suggestion to hide pictures that you don't always want to see). And, ever since then have had a terrible time keeping my library in sync with my backup since the count / number of pictures was always off.

Now I've got my numbers matching again, and will be able to stop wondering if I'm missing pictures.

I think the Hide feature was promoted too heavily in his speech and it's actually of little use to me and more of a problem.

Anyway, thanks for the suggestion. Now I've got everything back the way I want it.

 

[saradg]

Unhide

how do you unhide a picture? I clicked the hide button and now cannot find the pictures

 

[penter]

how do you unhide a picture? I clicked the hide button and now cannot find the pictures

this was asked 10 months ago, but....
Click on View > Hidden Photos

 

[2chow]

Great tip for finding unintentionally hidden photos

Thanks for the tip jdr999. It is an elegant solution to the problem of finding that one photo out of a thousand that is hidden. Even after checking view hidden photos, it can be a real pain to search through the whole library for the one or two with the X. This solution worked really well.