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iPhoto 9 has a totally different folder and database structure. It can't find the referenced images of course, but there's no warning or anything. Start iPhoto 9 on my MacBook and it upgrades the library. Of course the referenced files were not copied to the MacBook, but everything appeared to be OK. Forgetting that I had referenced files in my library I just copied the iPhoto Library folder from my iMac to my MacBook Air as the Apple support docs say (they don't mention anything about referenced files). Then I wanted to move my library to my new MacBook Air running Lion and iPhoto 9 ('11). In iPhoto 8 this was handled by creating an OS X alias file in the Originals folder within the iPhoto Library folder. This library had a bunch of "referenced" photos, ie, photos whos image files were outside of the iPhoto Library folder. It starts with iPhoto 8 ('09) on my iMac. I've resolved the problem, and it wasn't pretty. I'm using Lion 10.7.2 and the latest versions of both iPhoto and iTunes, syncing with an iPhone 4 running iOS 5.0.1. To summarize, iTunes does not recognize any iPhoto photos which are stored outside of the iPhoto Library folder (referenced), unless that photo has since been edited in iPhoto. If I edit a photo in one of the affected events, it then appears available for sync in iTunes, presumably because once edited, the modified photo is stored in the iPhoto Library. The original files are all there, available and editable within iPhoto. For these events, iPhoto maintains an alias in the library to the original file. In my case these are mainly older events for which I already had folders before I started using iPhoto. Some events are showing as having 0 photos in them, others are showing far fewer photos than the event actually has.Īfter some digging I found a pattern: the problem only affects "referenced" events, i.e., events where the master copies of the photos are in folders outside of the iPhoto Library. ITunes is not recognizing the correct number of photos in some of my iPhoto events.