iPhoto ‘09 may be unable to assign a location to photos if you’ve enabled the Parental Controls and set the “Look up Places” feature to “Never”. You can select a new location, but the location may not be applied to the photo. To assign a location to your photos with Parental Controls enabled, follow the instructions below.

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Can’t manually add location data to photos in some cases

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