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Apple Releases OS X Yosemite 10.10.3 With Photos for OS X App, Emoji Updates

As an Aperture user I find Photos to be very disappointing and will be looking for alternatives but I can see that other users may find Photos to be perfectly adequate.

However I have absolutely no interest in emojis. To me they are totaly unnecessary and think Apple should have put those resources into something less frivolous.
 
My 2007 24" iMac died shortly after the upgrade!!!

I upgraded last night. Imported some photos into Photos, went to bed. Woke up this morning and my iMac was dead. Disconnected all my peripherals, and tried to restart, nothing. No life at all. Plugged into a different outlet that works and still nothing. I am super bummed!!!! I hope my 800GB iPhoto library is still safe.
 
All good...

Update, no problems across the board...

Photos: like it overall, much cleaner, modern look...After it finished whatever processes it needed to finish after initial launch, it's been speedy...Wishlist
*Descending sort
*Ability to see/organize Flickr and Facebook albums
*Ability to sort Faces in alphabetical order

Messages app seems to be more stable. Was having problems with disconnections for the various services.

Don't know what they did on the backend with Mail, but my two Gmail accounts now take about a minute to connect to import all new mail (usually a lot of new mail) on a mid-2014 Macbook Pro vs. almost instantaneous response prior to update.

Otherwise, all apps etc. working perfectly.
 
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No improvement to UI lag on mid 2014 15" rmbp. Beginning to think this is an exclusive issue with Retina as my mid 2014 mba does not suffer from this sluggishness.
 
Trying to see if I can emulate my usual work flows in photos .. view -> sidebar on, and it feels like 'old comfy' again ... but then .. drag drop photo from photos into photoshop -> no longer working .. MAJOR pain .. now i need to export photo , give it a name and then open with Photoshop ...

Next I would have tried drag / drop into skitch, but that is not working at all after 10.10.3 update ...

so far I have not seen any advantages ...
 
terencedriver said:
They're not an insignificant minority. Despite Apple's clamping down on publicity over the issues. Ask them how many are affected and they will hide it. The volumes on the support forums is not small. I personally know 2 people affected and that's just me not moving in Apple circles.
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My daughter has a 2 year old 13" MBP and was recently home for holiday, I went to upload some photos on it and it was unbelievably slow, beach balls and sluggish. I asked her how long it had been that way and she replied since she did "that update", which turned out to be Yosemite. Backed up her computer and reinstalled Mavericks, and it's back to zipping along....

Had a similar experience with Yosemite on my 2008 MBP.
 
iPhoto

mfvisuals said:
Yes, you have to add to both individually. This is intentional.

Based on Apple's advertising Photos is meant to take the place of iPhoto not run alongside it simultaneously.
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I Guess with the probable release of 10.11 in June iPhoto will no longer be included.
 
Can somebody give me this information:
I have iPhone and am using the Photostream feature get my iPhone photos to my mac. Does this feature exist in the new photos app? I don't to buy any storage, so this is a important question for me. I hope you can help me.
 
mariusignorello said:
Trim is enabled successfully for me. It disables automatically after updates, so you have to manually re-enable it. As for kexts, no idea.
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Cool. If you could boot without issue, that means kext protection wasn't reenabled. That's good. Or else you'd have to go into recovery and use terminal commands to be able to boot again.
 
CPU Load with Photos

I noticed the CPU load with photo's open is about 40-50% usage verses iPhoto which is less than 1%. Why is Photo's so resource intensive? I am on a late 2012/27 inch iMac/i7/3.4GHZ/fusion drive with 32 GB of ram.
 
DesignG said:
Can somebody give me this information:
I have iPhone and am using the Photostream feature get my iPhone photos to my mac. Does this feature exist in the new photos app? I don't to buy any storage, so this is a important question for me. I hope you can help me.
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If you have iCloud Photo Library enabled on your iPhone, you won't need to use Photo Stream. It automatically will upload every photo you take to your iCloud and then also to your other Apple devices, including your Mac into the Photos App.

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BrooklynAl said:
I noticed the CPU load with photo's open is about 40-50% usage verses iPhoto which is less than 1%. Why is Photo's so resource intensive? I am on a late 2012/27 inch iMac/i7/3.4GHZ/fusion drive with 32 GB of ram.
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It might still be indexing all of your photos. I would give it a day and check it again. It's recognizing faces, dates, image info, etc.
 
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It might still be indexing all of your photos. I would give it a day and check it again. It's recognizing faces, dates, image info, etc.[/QUOTE]

The only thing regarding indexing is I have the main hard drive excluded from spotlight indexing...is that what you were suggesting?
 
hazuki said:
Thanks!
it will takes a long time to download it :(
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You aren't kidding! For two Macs that I updated, both had two separate 2 gb updates for OS X. It made me click the "Agree" box four times. Then only one of the updates would download. When the computers restarted, the other download was still in the queue and I had to restart the process. What the heck was that all about?
 
BrooklynAl said:
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It might still be indexing all of your photos. I would give it a day and check it again. It's recognizing faces, dates, image info, etc.
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The only thing regarding indexing is I have the main hard drive excluded from spotlight indexing...is that what you were suggesting?[/QUOTE]

If I understand what you're asking, then yes. It should be indexing Photos specifically. Mine was crazy high last night, but seems to have calmed down this morning. I'm leaving Photos open all day at work, just to be sure.
 
Just updated and when running Photos app my CPU load goes up to 300% (!!!) the computer heats up badly but fans won't spin.. I'm on a 2012 MacBook Air i7, 8GB RAM :eek:
 
I'm testing out Photos on my work Mac importing a small (under 5 GB) iPhoto library; while watching the iPhoto photos get pushed up to iCloud, I'm also seeing a whack of old iPhone photos that would have been deleted FROM iCloud now popping up in Photos as well.

Does it bug anyone else that when you view "All Photos" on the iPhone, it's not date sorted but instead simply sorted by Last Added? I know it's Apple's way of "encouraging" you to use the Photos/Moments/Collections sorting method but it still drives me nutty...
 
After importing pictures into Photos here is what all of my picture folders look like.

For the majority of pictures on my Mac a folder was created with the same name as the picture it sits next to in Finder.

Did I do something wrong? Is there a fix for this?
 
fyrefly said:
Nothing yet at Apple.com/support/downloads - so has anyone got a link for a standalone Delta installer one can grab for multiple Macs in the household? I assume the Combo 10.10.3 won't install over 10.10.2 the way the combo 10.10.2 wouldn't install over 10.10.1. :S
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FWIW, that was fixed the next day.
 
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