Last night I needed some photos printed off of my MacBook, so I went to the Walgreens photo website, ( I've used them before and there close by). Something new this time, only way to upload photo's is to download and install their upload app, so I did. It loads up like a finder window, a preview window on the right, and a pane with system folders and volumes on the left. Only, my pictures folder wasn't there. Only way to get it to see my photos was use Mac Finder to copy them to a USB drive, then I could see them in the app window.
Got my photo's uploaded, tried to close the app, and unmount the dmg. When I tried to unmount the dmg, it locked my MacBook up completely. I'm not talking about one of those app freezes where you have to force quit the app, I mean nothing would work, not even Force Quit. Channeling my Windows XP days, I walked away and checked on it every so often, took about 10 minutes for it to start working again.
So I went back to my Pics folder to look at more photo's, when I clicked the folder in left pane of Finder, got an error, "Volume "Pictures" Not Found". My pics folder was gone! 1500 pics, three years worth of vacations, holidays, kids events. I finally found the folder, IN THE TRASH! I restored it, but now pic prview doesn't work in that folder, though it does for pics in other locations. (Anyone know how to fix that?)
Also, USB drive I was using to transfer the pics has something wrong with it. Since this incident, it stall on unmount.
I don't know if there was something funky about my particular case, or if this App is just a bad apple, ( pun intended ), but I'd be careful!
Got my photo's uploaded, tried to close the app, and unmount the dmg. When I tried to unmount the dmg, it locked my MacBook up completely. I'm not talking about one of those app freezes where you have to force quit the app, I mean nothing would work, not even Force Quit. Channeling my Windows XP days, I walked away and checked on it every so often, took about 10 minutes for it to start working again.
So I went back to my Pics folder to look at more photo's, when I clicked the folder in left pane of Finder, got an error, "Volume "Pictures" Not Found". My pics folder was gone! 1500 pics, three years worth of vacations, holidays, kids events. I finally found the folder, IN THE TRASH! I restored it, but now pic prview doesn't work in that folder, though it does for pics in other locations. (Anyone know how to fix that?)
Also, USB drive I was using to transfer the pics has something wrong with it. Since this incident, it stall on unmount.
I don't know if there was something funky about my particular case, or if this App is just a bad apple, ( pun intended ), but I'd be careful!