I'm about to abandon iPhoto and Aperture as the managed library simply does not work for me. The usual workflow everyone probably follows is to import pictures from a digital camera and delete the ones that are bad. In iPhoto, those pictures aren't really gone until you empty the trash in iPhoto (and I've read the osx trash too). Fine. Except for me, this never works - newly imported files never really get deleted.
After every single import I have to repair permissions on the iphoto library, which seems to allow me to delete. If I forget to do that, picture files are deleted from iPhoto but remain on disk. A repair database would put those so called deleted photos back into the iphoto library. I've tried a 'rebuild' as well, but that doesn't fix anything. In fact a brand new library has the same problem. Aperture is no better and has the same issue.
Has anyone else encountered this? I'm ready to, at best, switch to a referenced library. But I'm seriously considering just moving to lightroom or something else at this point. I searched google to no avail...
After every single import I have to repair permissions on the iphoto library, which seems to allow me to delete. If I forget to do that, picture files are deleted from iPhoto but remain on disk. A repair database would put those so called deleted photos back into the iphoto library. I've tried a 'rebuild' as well, but that doesn't fix anything. In fact a brand new library has the same problem. Aperture is no better and has the same issue.
Has anyone else encountered this? I'm ready to, at best, switch to a referenced library. But I'm seriously considering just moving to lightroom or something else at this point. I searched google to no avail...