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iPhoto '11 Upgrade Causing Headaches for Some Users

I don't believe I lost any photos but if iPhoto 11 is open my Macbook slows to a crawl (2 GHz C2D with 4 GB of ram).


I'm VERY not happy about the AppleTV thing as well.

Edit: Ok the AppleTV thing is a non-issue. Only thing that happened was my AppleTV reset to use the built in pics - I was able to change it to my own synced pics. I also selected a new event to sync and it copied over fine.
 
It is very bad that the old AppleTV is not supported anymore but we knew this would happen eventually. It is not pleasant but not completely unexpected.

The first AppleTV is what.. almost 4 years old now?
 
sharptooth said:
It is very bad that the old AppleTV is not supported anymore but we knew this would happen eventually. It is not pleasant but not completely unexpected.

The first AppleTV is what.. almost 4 years old now?
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Its not the age of the device of the old one that is the problem. Its the fact that they aren't supporting a previous generation product.
 
dba7dba said:
Don't use iPhoto for long term storage of photos.

I don't use iPhoto (or Picasa etc) for long term storage of photos. I store all my photos in its native form, like Word Doc files, on external HDs and DVDs. I import the photos into iPhoto only when I want to create a slideshow, organize before emailing them out etc.

my workflow with photos
-Use free Mac utility app called Image Capture to download photos from camera onto Mac HD. Do not use iPhoto to download photos.
-Use ExifRenamer to rename photos to date/time it was taken. Seems not necessary but crucial for headache free management of photos. Each photo will have unique file name AND you can tell where/where it was taken just by looking at the file name. No need to check thumbnail images.
-Copy the photos to External HD (or burn DVD or both) for backup. Backing up with Time Machine is NOT enough as older backups are erased eventually. You could use same HD for both Time Machine and storing photos long term. You should plan on swapping out this HD every 2 or 3 years. Put it on your planner, Mobileme iCAL, etc.
-Import photos into iPhoto if you want to browse through them or create book or create slideshows to share.
-Lastly, get 'iPhoto Buddy' so you can use multiple iPhoto Libraries (on internal AND external HDs). Putting ALL your photos into 1 huge iPhoto Library ON your internal HD is not smart imo. Maybe create a dedicated iPhoto library for each year. Keep it on an external HD.
-After making sure older photos are on external HD/DVD, delete them from your HD. I do. My Internal HD is just not big enough for all my photos.


Now you might say that's no unApple with so many seemingly manual steps. The fact is Apple can't do anything about users filling up HDs with thousands and thousands of 5MB jpg files or video files. You as a user have to determine what to keep where. No amount of technical solution will fix that, unless of course you have unlimited internal HD storage, which no one does.
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Sorry but these seems flawed if i read wrong and so much work. You store your photos on a harddrive and mention about swapping that hard drive and not to store them on your internal drive plus all these naming files etc??

If you use aperture you can import plus name the files in one step, keep them on the specified drive you have for photos BUT back up using timemachine. You mention that older back ups are wiped, this is correct but im sure you know after one or two months if you got rid of a photo you needed. This way you have a copy on the drive plus one back up, the back up goes you still have your drive and visa verca.

You also mentioned storing it on DVD but that in fact has a shelf life, my understanding is 7 years, you dont want to trust it after that.

Dont get me wrong not having a go at you here I just think you are doing way to many steps and you are setting yourself up for a large loss of data (if i read everything correctly)
 
I keep wondering how I get the same software as other people, yet I seem to never have issues with it. Tons of bandwagon complaints, but just about every problem people seem to have, I never have it. Huh. Guess I'm just lucky or something?

(methinks it's mostly user error/issues, but don't tell them I said that).
 
iPad and iPhoto 11

Is anybody else having issues with syncing photos on iPad with iPhoto 11? Works fine with Aperture 2 but fails to sync with new iPhoto 11. :confused:
 
(methinks it's mostly user error/issues, but don't tell them I said that).[/QUOTE]

Let's look at iPhoto 11 .........Omission of picture calendars 2 months before Christmas, ridiculously restrictive and clunky email and places functionality and poor syncing with iPad, is not user error :rolleyes:

Apple simply messed up. :eek:
 
i haven't had any issues & really honestly have never experienced any issue everyone else seems to talk about. Although I use Aperture over iPhoto i still have several thousand images in iPhoto all of which are there.

The only one I can remember is my old MacBook use to suffer from screen flicker in the bottom right corner that was it
 
what pisses me off most with iphoto 11 is that YOU CAN NOT EDIT PHOTOS IN FULLSCREEN anymore! this is so incredible dull, considering that apple is marketing this version as a "fullscreen edit" version. there is a black bar on the top, an even larger black bar on the bottom and an unnecessary editing bar that also distracts the view.

i don't know what apple thought with this version of iphoto 11, but it is slow, buggy, and in many ways a step back (for example the geolocation window is now small like a stamp and can't be extended!). but even worse: edit more than one photo without a border? not possible! compare photos without a border? not possible!
 
I installed iLife on my own and my wife's Mac. My photo library upgraded just fine, her's however showed the yellow yield symbol on every single one of her photos. I did a "Get Info" on the new library and what was once a 11GB library was now 400MB. The photos weren't in the trash or anything. Just gone. Thankfully, both our Macs are backing up via SuperDuper and Time Machine. I'm pulling off the 11GB library from the TM backup right now. I feel bad for the folks who neglected to backup.
 
franswa za said:
expect some teething problems....... an update is imminent!
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The point is you shouldn't have to expect teething problems. To think like this and then tell everyone an update is imminent means you've been drinking too much Koolaid.
Why isn't Apple held to the same high standard as everyone else when it comes to software?
 
dotnsk said:
Furthermore, if it's not important enough to back up, it's not important. That may sound cruel to you, but consider that Apple has built an automatic back up utility into the operating system that simply requires the user to connect a hard drive and click "ok" once to work. There is a certain amount of personal responsibility here.
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And you really think copying files to a second hard drive is "backing up"? Afterall, first hard drives can fail, but second ones never do, right?
 
darkfame said:
It's a bit funny that they have managed to create a import feature on their own hardware and software which actually deletes content. They are in 100% control of both hardware and software, and they somehow managed to do this? This is what I call sloppy work.
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Someone should do a check on the pictures that were deleted. It's possible this is a "feature" that uses the face functionality and other image analysis to delete any pictures that aren't of beautiful people in black turtleneck sweaters.
 
No Problems with iLife '11

I received my copy of iLife '11 yesterday. I decide to backup all my photos after reading this thread. The only issue i had was that my imac was running very sluggishly after install, but a reboot took care of that. at this point i'm very satisfied with iLife '11 from '08
:):apple:
 
fxtech said:
And you really think copying files to a second hard drive is "backing up"? Afterall, first hard drives can fail, but second ones never do, right?
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You really think it isn't? Backup is making another copy of your data. There's no failure rate attached to the definition.

Anything can fail. Tapes can fail, DVDs can fail, flash memory can fail, online backup services use tapes, disks, etc. that can fail. There is no absolute fail-safe media to put your data on. And the reality is that most people will fill up their hard disks and get a new one before the first one fails.

Backing up is about reducing your odds of all copies of your data being on failed devices. Backing up to a second drive dramatically reduces your odds of this - there's nothing wrong with this practice. Nobody here is claiming it's the absolute safest way to back up your data.

The fact is Time Machine is the absolute easiest way to back up your data and every Mac user that doesn't have another backup method in use should be taking advantage of it.
 
hayesk said:
You really think it isn't? Backup is making another copy of your data. There's no failure rate attached to the definition.
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If it's in the same physical location as your primary data it isn't really a backup. Yeah, it may help in the event of the first drive failing but there are numerous other conditions it fails to protect against.
 
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