Import photos to iPhoto

[Bruce McL]

It would be really nice if I could find an easy way to move photos received
in Entourage into iPhoto.

Could an AppleScript be made that would do the job? I'm thinking hit a key
combination with one message open, or many messages selected in a message
list, and all of the attached jpegs get moved into iPhoto.

I'd like to see this for Entourage 2004 and iPhoto 5. I know a lot of people
who are using iPhoto 4, so if it worked there that would be good too.

I have seen many scripts that will save attachments in the finder, but I
haven't seen any that import to iPhoto.

 

[Craig Deutsch]

Don't count on Microsoft to write code for features that (further) enable
Apple's proprietary software applications to work with Entourage -- despite
the fact that MS has no photo management application for Mac.

Just my two cents' worth.

Craig
San Diego

 

[Bruce McL]

I agree. I think that an iPhoto import feature in Entourage will come from a
third party (or possibly from Apple) in the form of an AppleScript.
-Bruce.

 

[Paul Berkowitz]

Are you talking about email attachments or photos in contacts? At the moment
there is no AppleScript property for the photo in contacts, so no way to
access it by AppleScript. (Email attachments can be got by script, yes.) It
has nothing to do with any anti-Apple plot: the situation has existed since
before there was an iPhoto. There is a feature request (mine) to be able to
access it (and everything else) by AppleScript. It may come on a later
version. There is no Microsoft photo management software for the Mac, and if
there were, MS would want to interact with iPhoto. But there isn't. I'm sure
they had a ;lot else on their minds - to do with email, Exchange, PIM
features, projects. archives, scrapbook, and interacting with their own
Office apps. I don't think that interacting with iPhoto would ever have even
occurred to them, or to you for that matter, until Mail (Address Book?)
started doing it (?). It's part of Apple's vision to get all their digital
iApps communicating: give Apple credit for that. I can't imagine it was ever
on MS's map - why would it ever have occurred to them? Now that Mail
(Address Book) can do it, and if enough people ask for it to make it a
priority, there's no reason why they might not add the feature eventually,
or at least let you export photos.

--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP MacOffice
Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html>
AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>

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[Bruce McL]

Thanks for the reply. I'm talking about moving email attachments to iPhoto
as simply and easily as possible.

I want to encourage my clients to use iPhoto. More than once I'll have
people say to me, "hey, take a look at these pictures." and they go
searching through Entourage to find the email that has the pictures
attached. If I could make it real easy for these people to get those photos
into iPhoto I think they would benefit from that.

Getting contact photos into iPhoto is not important to me, or to my clients,
right now. As you say, eventually this may become more important.

-Bruce.

 

[Joke Duivestein]

Bruce,
Just drag the pictures from your mail to the desktop, open iphoto and then
drag them from the desktop into iphoto. It works for me.
Johan Verberk