Re: iPhoto Data Files

FROM : Evan Jones
DATE : Thu Jan 16 18:48:15 2003

On Thursday, Jan 16, 2003, at 02:23 Europe/Zurich, Michael Mulligan
wrote:
> I'm kind of new to parsing files, and I was wondering if anybody knows
> how
> (or might have a suggestion as to where to start) to parse the data
> files in
> the iPhoto Library (.data, .attr, etc)?


My first suggestion is to wait a few weeks. Once iPhoto 2 is out, I
have a suspicion that the formats may change.

Second suggestion: See if the information you want is included in
iPhoto's XML file. It is located (by default) at:

Library/iApps/iPhoto/AlbumData.xml

it is a self-explanatory plist XML file which contains lots of useful
information about your album. In fact, it probably contains most of
what you are looking for.

As a bonus if you want, I have an Outline view data source for this
album I'd be willing to share. It displays album and photo info in an
outline view.

Good luck,

Evan

--
Evan Jones: http://www.eng.uwaterloo.ca/~ejones/
"Computers are useless. They can only give answers" - Pablo Picasso
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