http://homepage.mac.com/blog.mac/blog//ilife_autopsy_blog.html In this instructional blog, we'll dissect the new file and folder structure created and maintained by Apple's iLife '06 suite (iMovie, iPhoto, iTunes, and iWeb). The old structure was maintained by the Homepage web-app available at http://homepage.mac.com; it created clean, well-organized and well-structured pages. The new structure is radically different and provides some improvements in output quality and published features. Customizing and extending these web pages is a little more complicated, but we hope to clear up most of the confusion in this blog. Please give us feedback if there's something you'd like to add or comment on. Wed, 26 Apr 2006 13:50:09 -0400 60 http://homepage.mac.com/blog.mac/blog/ilife_autopsy_blog.html#utt165800348


Notice that the contents of each photo album are self contained, meaning there aren't any subfolders or supporting files.

If you used iPhoto from iLife '05 or earlier to publish a photo album, your pictures were uploaded to the Pictures folder on your iDisk. The folder structure for these published albums is included below:



In short, the structure and organization was pretty straight forward and easy to navigate without too much trouble.

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To compare the output, here's the folder structure created when I published several photos using iPhoto 6 and iWeb:



Notice that there are a few more files uploaded for each album published. Unlike previous versions of iLife, most of the support for each element on published pages was moved into an iWeb template, which then get uploaded for each and every album you publish. This includes the JavaScript code for the slideshow, which is now included with each file you publish, and is saved in the "your album name.js" file and called from the "slideshow.html" file.]]> Mon, 03 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0400 http://homepage.mac.com/blog.mac/blog/ilife_autopsy_blog.html#twf166191520
http://homepage.mac.com

iPhoto 5 and earlier published each photo album using the obvious "PhotoAlbum#.html" format, where "#" was a sequential number that matched the number of albums you had published. So, your third album you published to .Mac about "Squirrels in the Park" was uploaded and was available for view at the following URL:

http://homepage.mac.com/yourdotmacname/PhotoAlbum3.html.


This URL is easy to type and doesn't look too ugly, but it doesn't give you any idea about the contents of the web page.
With iLife '06, content is still saved in a "Sites" folder, but now it's a subfolder inside "Web". On one hand, the main URL makes more sense:

http://web.mac.com

On the other hand, when you publish your photo album, iWeb uses the name that you gave the iWeb site and the name you gave to the album, and so the URL for our same example looks a little uglier:

http://web.mac.com/yourdotmacname/iWeb/My%20Pictures/
Squirrels%20in%20the%20Park.html

A much uglier URL, but you do have any idea about the contents of the web page. The %20 mess is the code for a space since most web servers and browsers don't like punctuation and spaces in the URL.]]> Sun, 02 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0500 http://homepage.mac.com/blog.mac/blog/ilife_autopsy_blog.html#xuk166191313

1. To find all of your photo albums published using iLife '05 or earlier, look for all PhotoAlbum#.html files inside your iDisk's /Sites folder.
2. To find all of your photo albums published using iLife '06, look for all .html files inside your iDisk's /Web/Sites/iWeb folder, but use the following conditions:
   • Look in the first level of folders that you find
   • Exclude index.html files
   • Exclude slideshow.html files

A little tougher, but still not too bad... ]]> Sun, 02 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0500 http://homepage.mac.com/blog.mac/blog/ilife_autopsy_blog.html#mcu167185301
Try it today:
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