iLife 09 - avoid

What's this? Another forum member searching for sympathy?

The 820 IS isn't even a real camera, maybe that's your problem.

 

iLife? No. Why would I (anyone) ever buy an Apple consumer-level software program?

 

Rather than sending to Apple feedback that is full of cheap jibes that help no one, I think it would have been better if you had been more specific with your issues. If any were reproducible, then list the steps to reproduce etc.. etc..

I've found iPhoto to be one of the buggiest pieces of software that I've ever owned. This is a real shame since if the program would work as expected, it'd be a great program. I'm desperately hoping that it'll improve with the inevitable patches.

 

I do agree with a lot of your comments.

It doesn't feel like a polished product and the places feature is very frustrating to use. More work needs to be done on it but for the pricing and the alternative products in the marketplace I think it's competitive.

 

I really like iPhoto & have never had an issue with it.
One day I'll put all my shots in Adobe Bridge, but until I work it out I'm happy.

Is this a largely shared opinion on iLife 09? I'm considering the purchase.
I heard if you actually buy it, then it comes without the Trojan!

 

Overall I'm happy with iLife 09 but it does feel a bit rough around the edges. More justification I guess for Apple abandoning MacWorld SF. In normal circumstances it may have been released in March

 

Can you not store iPhotos library on an external like iTunes?

 

The U.K. inventing history and place names since before the big snows came.

 

So you can't move the library and then hold 'alternate' down when you open iPhoto to tell it where the library has moved to like you can in iTunes? I have two iPhoto libraries and use alternate to choose which one to open. So I know you can move the libraries around a HD so I can't see why you wouldn't be able to do it with an external. My iTunes library is on an external, I moved it once it got to big for my internal.

Give iPhoto a try with your iPhoto library on your external.

 

First off, it's a bit of a rant to have sent to Apple and a little hard to read. You might want to consider breaking it down a little, using formatting to split up areas and making your points as bullets with explanations rather than just a personal rant. Secondly, just because you're having a tough time, it doesn't mean everyone else is so a blanket 'avoid' is a tad excessive.

Actually, and I'm a Brit, we invented neither written history nor placenames. There are far older texts from Iran/Iraq than from the UK.

As for Places, while it's not perfect, it does kinda make sense to list places in alphabetical order - so London, Arkansas before London, England. Population or popularity would be far more arbitrary for users. If you create your own places, they do pop up at the top of the list when you put in that letter which is useful. What I would like to see if I entered the name of a city is what other options within that city there are (e.g. there are built-in places for Trafalgar Square, Tate Modern etc but only the ones that have a name starting with London show up in the listing)

My Canary Wharf was happily in the Docklands when I entered it in Google Search. You do know that iPhoto picks up your location setting from the System Pref time zone setting so if you're not set to 'London' there, Google maps may well start centred on where it thinks you are. I only realised this when a friend complained about his starting at 'Cardiff'.

I zoom in on the Places map to the area so that I no longer just see a 'London' pin but several of them scattered around and click on the pin. I just get the pics from that pin.

My Hong Kong pics did something similar but they do still show up in the map and you can still search for them so I'm not wildly concerned at the moment. Part of me thought it was quite a cool trick but if you've gone to the effort of trying to get the right areas and then can't read them, there should be an option to turn it off!

Again, you're having less luck than I am. Mine's been pretty accurate although there does seem to be one friend that it just doesn't want to recognise as often at the others. One thing that might be useful is to ID the people that appear in your pics most often before working on other family/friends. It reduces the number of false positives. Also, make sure when you're confirming names that you're also telling it when it's not the person rather than just ignoring it.

That doesn't sound right but while I'm sure it's a pain in the ass, it's not happening to everyone. I'd suggest going into the Genius Bar at an Apple store and asking them to have a look at it - they at least can look at the system logs and try to figure out what's causing the problems and pass that information back along the line. Your email gives little useful information for them to work with in terms of system configuration, other software and how you're using it.

 

Absolutely. Mine are stored on an external drive, also independantly backed up as well.

I haven't had a single issue worth ranting a wall of text complaint. Sounds like you've got more issues than just iLife '09.

Are you SURE the photo's are deleted and not "Hide already imported photos"
Are you SURE the database doesn't redo itself (mine fluctuates in size both up and down based on what I do... may not happen instantly but it DOES happen)
Facial recognition software isn't cheap, and what Apple included maybe isn't CSI top of the line but it's pretty damn good.
iLife is not a freebie and shouldn't be by any means. Same as no one should get Win98 just because they have Win95. They both look and act the same but with slight differences.
There have been several complaints about the UK places issue, and lots of tips on it already, search, macosxhints, etc would help. Sure it's probably not the best but it hasn't even had a update/patch yet to probably address some of these places issues.

Money back? You weren't forced to buy it, go fight to get your money back at the store you bought it from. Good luck with that.
Apology? Yah, we're all still waiting for our apology from Microsoft for Windows ME. THAT's not gonna happen.

EDIT:

Just tried it. Worked just fine on mine. Photo's stayed.

 

The Trojan is embedded in the torrent downloads, not the original SW you buy!

 

It also irritates me that OSX only comes with an American Oxford English Dictionary......

OXFORD ENGLISH IS .... BRITISH WHERE THE HELL IS MY BRITISH DICTIONARY?

I Downgraded from 09 to 08 iLife also as when i selected keep photo's from either my Olympus DSLR or my N95 8GB it deleted them off the device

Shame how Apple is more and more becoming the iPhone company

 

Ok Send it to Apple then

There's a dictionary plugin SDK, you could create your own.

 

I've seen similar issues to the ones you describe in iPhoto.

Places generates a weird import result. Certain photos taken on the same 3G iPhone at the same time, are imported with differed pin locations when plotted on the map.

Nice rant, and it made me chuckle but perhaps we should review the topic subject line and create separate sticky threads for iPhoto 09 > Places | iPhoto 09 > Faces

 

I have definitely noticed a distinct lack of polish in iLife myself. I've no doubt in time Apple will patch most of these bugs but this is a disturbing new trend from Apple, releasing software that isn't quite ready.... disappointing.

 

While you'd likely win that wager, I've seen 'em both. I've also been to Stuttgart . . . Arkansas.