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iPhoto '11 Upgrade Causing Headaches for Some Users

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I had no problems updating mine. However I kept a backup of my old iPhoto 09 library just to make sure... iPhoto 11 is slower than 09 and sometimes crash but no big deal
 
quigleybc said:
Losing photos is unforgivable.

They are priceless.

I back everything up 3x's but other don't and no update should wipe photos' from a user's HD. That is criminal.
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It's entirely likely that this is a bug Apple did not encounter in the lab. How could they fix something they didn't know about?

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.
 
samcraig said:
With hard drive space as cheap as it is and with myself only using iPhoto to sync with my iphone/ipad mostly - I keep all my raw photos in folders outside of the programs. Worst case - I have full backups to fall back on.

I love technology and that we're in the digital age - but ultimately - there's something to be said about the old days and always having physical media (photographs) which could get burned, lost, water logged - were at least safe from data errors.

So that being said again - hard drive space is "cheap" - no reason not to archive all your photos as a precaution/safety.
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Even cheaper is getting a service like CrashPlan. I paid them $180 for 3-years of unlimited space to backup all my household computers (OSX, Windows and Linux) off-site -- which protects my data if the house burns down.

I run Time Machine locally using external fire-wire hard drives for the hourly backups and day-to-day missteps that can occur.

But for $180 over three years, I figured that was cheaper than buying a hard drive to keep at my brother's house for off-site backup especially considering that the hard drive might fail in that 3-year time period and then I would need to purchase another.

If you can backup your stuff at a family member's house (i.e.: backup to their computer) then CrashPlan is free. You just both need to be running CrashPlan and have enough bandwidth at both sites to feasibly handle backups over the internet.
 
beta?

And this is what happens when you don't release a Beta first for the masses to try out. Nothing breaks quite like software in the wild. No lab test can compete with the real world. :eek:
 
rugby said:
I really enjoy the fact that you HAVE to email out pics through iPhoto now and it limits you to 10 pics max. Stupid program.
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Does your email provider allow attachments large enough that you can email more than ten photos in one fell swoop? If so, you are incredibly lucky. My camera takes photos that are sufficiently large enough that I can't email more than a few at a time, so I just resort to a MobileMe gallery. Easier. :)
 
calvin2006 said:
Now you just click on "Add a Face" in the info bar (you have to click Info to display it if it is hidden). It's not that tough, but it does take a while to get used to if you're used to iPhoto '09. I moved directly from iPhoto '08, only minimally using iPhoto '09 for fun on another Mac, so it wasn't much of a learning curve for me.

Overall, though, I think the new iLife is much slower and more resource intensive than iLife '08 and iLife '09, from my experience. My hard drive is constantly reading with iPhoto and/or iMovie open now, and backups to Time Machine are massive every time I update photos.
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Actually, I meant that iPhoto already identified it as a face, how do you put a name to it? Actually, I just figured it out. You have to double click the picture & then it'll show the boxes.

One feature I'd like is you know how if you click on Faces in the left column and see all the people you already named? Well they should also have the same thing for unnamed people. That way you can group people whose name you don't know. And then when you do learn their name, you can just add it.

Also, when confirming names, I found in '09 & '11 that you can right click on the pics & you get 3 options: Confirm, Deny, or Name. One other option I'd like is "Not a Face". I get enough false positives for faces that it gets annoying.
 
dotnsk said:
It's entirely likely that this is a bug Apple did not encounter in the lab. How could they fix something they didn't know about?

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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The average consumer doesn't backup. Well - let me clarify - the average consumer doesn't back up until AFTER they experience their first data loss. And even then - many fail to back up REGULARLY.

And with the amount of people experiencing this issue - it would be hard to see how Apple didn't encounter the issue if they thoroughly tested. But who can really say.

I agree about personal responsibility. I also think that a company that sells you an upgrade should put some sort of precautions to back up the original library before converting or give an on screen warning other than "this library needs to be updated..."

My .02
 
I have had no issues. All of my over 5000 photos are there and the application hasn't crashed on me (yet).
 
FrerkLovesApple said:
I have an old Apple TV and iLife '11. I haven't noticed where exactly the support is lacking, in fact I noticed that in the slideshow export menu, the old Apple TV is depicted.
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Can you sync photos to the ATV? Can you browse the iPhoto library from the ATV?
 
I don't really have any qualms with iPhoto 11, but I feel like the whole UI of the system is different from the 09 version. Many options are hidden and Faces is pretty bad compared to 09...like the check marking part. If it wasn't for iMovie 11, I would probably roll back to iLife 09.

Btw, system perferences is having a hard time recognizing iPhoto & Aperture library when I try to change the wallpaper, but screensaver works fine. Anyone else having this issue?
 
Installed mine with only one strange thing, it seemed to do something with a Facebook Album. All the sudden that album looked like it was new in my profile with all the same info including comments I had about it like someone had commented. But no one had. Other than than no trouble at all.
 
Not so fast...

I have an old 160GB Apple TV and iPhoto '11 has no problems with it -- I added some new photos and it synced the same way it's always done. I realize that's little help for people who can't get it working, but making the claim that the older ATV is not compatible is simply not true.

Actually, the only issue I had with iPhoto '11 is one that's not even mentioned... my Facebook albums only downloaded partially and never completed, no matter how long I left it running. I finally killed the connection to FB, deleted all of the albums from iPhoto and relinked it and everything came down just fine. Guessing that was something goofy held over from the previous version of iPhoto, maybe...

JRB
 
Agree

milbournosphere said:
Wow, the cons for iLife '11 just keeps growing. I guess I'll just have to hold off.
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Aside from all this I'm really disappointed that there is no pinch-to-zoom feature...I mean they sell all these multi-touch enabled devices but it's barely implemented in anything. iPhoto seems like a no-brainer to incorporate pinch-zoom as it works like that on the iPhone and iPad. :( :( :(
 
iPhoto is not for storing photos long term

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.
 
dotnsk said:
It's entirely likely that this is a bug Apple did not encounter in the lab. How could they fix something they didn't know about?

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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Even more pathetic.
 
Yeah, we have to move to the point where it's simple and cost effective to backup into the cloud. External drives fail too often, (especially when you toss them in the laundry machine by mistake -- long story, don't ask...)

I have an Apple TV (not a rev. 1, a more recent one with 120gb hard disk -- not the latest black diskless one.). I also have a pretty big photo library (about 90,000 photos, and home videos.)

I'm planning on upgrading, but I may wait a month or so, until there are a few updates, and/or the kind folks upgrading this week find workarounds to any issues.
 
Repair your permissions.

After installing iLife 11 I did and the list of repaired permissions was a mile long. Works OK for me but now I find it won't work with my old Apple TV. That sucks!
 
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