I grew up on Windows 95/98/XP at home so naturally I'm used to the computer losing my files on me unless I manage them myself through explorer.exe, and now the Finder.
I read somewhere a while back that iPhoto (and iTunes) were designed to make the filesystem transparent to the user. This makes sensesince music added to either program gets copied to a library specific to the app.
So upload photos to iPhoto, delete what you want and then add the rest to an album then forget it, or download a song, drag it into iTunes, then delete it. Ultimately the end user shouldn't have to maintain their own files, the software should do that for us. It is a windows habit I have to break.
So today I sorted my photos into "albums" (really folders) in the Finder so that I could just quickly create a new album in iPhoto and drag them into the album. I will now delete the photos because they will be contained in my iPhoto library. Any new photos will be uploaded by my camera, I'll delete what I don't want, and then add them to a new album. Simple as that and a lot less work and a much cleaner file system.
My next project is iTunes. I figured I'd do all this since I'm moving into a "new to me" mac.
Anyone else breaking this habit?
I read somewhere a while back that iPhoto (and iTunes) were designed to make the filesystem transparent to the user. This makes sensesince music added to either program gets copied to a library specific to the app.
So upload photos to iPhoto, delete what you want and then add the rest to an album then forget it, or download a song, drag it into iTunes, then delete it. Ultimately the end user shouldn't have to maintain their own files, the software should do that for us. It is a windows habit I have to break.
So today I sorted my photos into "albums" (really folders) in the Finder so that I could just quickly create a new album in iPhoto and drag them into the album. I will now delete the photos because they will be contained in my iPhoto library. Any new photos will be uploaded by my camera, I'll delete what I don't want, and then add them to a new album. Simple as that and a lot less work and a much cleaner file system.
My next project is iTunes. I figured I'd do all this since I'm moving into a "new to me" mac.
Anyone else breaking this habit?