Phoshare photo count does not match iPhoto Photos count

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A Phoshare user reported:
By the way, is there any reason why iPhoto and Phoshare reports different 
numbers of photos?  Phoshare says there's 52,809 photos detected in 
AlbumData.xml; compared to 53,136 in iPhoto 9.1.1.  How might I go about 
diagnosing and resolving this?  (I wonder if this is an iPhoto AlbumData.xml 
problem rather than a Phoshare problem?)

NB -- This isn't critical for my current usage - which is to use the link mode 
to modify the iPhoto source images, but I would imagine I and others would want 
to know if the resulting export would be missing photographs.  Thank you for 
any help.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by tsporkert on 9 Jan 2011 at 6:11

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I've seen it the other way round, with Phoshare reporting more images than 
iPhoto. That happens if you have online accounts (e.g. Flickr, MobileMe, 
Facebook) with albums containing pictures that did not get uploaded from your 
iPhoto library. Phoshare will see them in the library, but they aren't part of 
"Photos" in iPhoto.

Original comment by tsporkert on 9 Jan 2011 at 9:04

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Upon further examination, it looks like iPhoto's AlbumData.xml (quite 
reasonably) does not include photos marked as "Hidden" on iPhoto.

As a result, Phoshare (or other applications dependent on AlbumData.xml) would 
not 'see' the hidden photos.

iPhoto:  53,156 photos (13 January 2011, including hidden)
Number of photos marked "Hidden":  412

That leaves:  
iPhoto: 52,744 photos (13 January 2011, excluding hidden)
Phoshare:  52,809 photos (13 January 2011)

So actually, I'm experiencing the same thing as you –– that Phoshare 
reports more images than iPhoto (excluding hidden images).

Note that I do not have online accounts linked to iPhoto, and albums (to the 
best of my knowledge) only contain photos in the iPhoto library.

Original comment by sichunlam on 13 Jan 2011 at 12:20

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Thanks for investigating. The next Phoshare update will list the extra images 
when you enable verbose output. I'll add a note to the docs about not being 
able to export hidden images.

Original comment by tsporkert on 13 Jan 2011 at 6:31

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Please reopen if there are issues remaining.

Original comment by tsporkert on 22 Jun 2011 at 7:22

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