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iPhoto '11 Upgrade Causing Headaches for Some Users

essex sound lab said:
OK, not supporting the older AppleTV simply sucks.

So, to use any albums from iPhoto 11 (and presumably later) with an AppleTV, I have to throw out the perfectly good one that I have (that has storage!) and get a new streaming thing?

That's simply unacceptable.
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I don't know why everyone has their panties up in a bunch. My AppleTV 1 is working just fine with iPhoto '11.
 
No real problems upgrading to iLife 11

Before I upgraded, I made sure there was a backup in Time Machine, and I made sure to get the total number of pics that were there. I upgraded, and after it went through the whole process (took almost an hour to process 27,000+ pics) I verified that the numbers matched.

It is working a little bit slower than usual, but it's not a real big deal to me. The only problem I have is that you no longer have the ability to keep the different edit screens open at the same time. You have to click a different activity to go the various edit options available. Also a lot of the buttons have moved so I guess I have to get used to the new positions as I go along. Otherwise it's working as I suspected. I just wanted to upgrade to get the new slideshow templates anyway, and they work great.

Update: After shutting down the Mac and restarting, I found that iPhoto '11 is now responding a lot faster than before. I was also surprised to see that you can now add text to the slideshow templates.
 
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.
 
I started the installation and my body started to fade away so I stopped it. All I can figure is that the pictures of my parents at the Enchantment under the Sea dance were being erased.
 
Crap

Apple is becoming just like any other big software company, selling crappy buggy software, what once worked seamlessly is just about to be another pile of crap without any other good choice either.:apple:
 
Found a bug

So far I've really only run into one thing. When using the retouch tool and you start click anywhere in the photo to retouch then go all the way left or right off the photo and let go, it doesn't apply the retouch.
 
Oh really?

I had no problems with 3 machines, and judging my the near 200 posts to this column, if this is a problem at all, it's minor. Agreed, losing photos is huge, but this seems like another outlier issue. iLife works great. Don't be worried.
 
Is the data being removed from the filesystem or simply not being recognized by iPhoto?
 
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Was that the size of the library via get info, or was that the increase in actual space available on the drive!
 
I'll be sure to back up when I upgrade. I'm waiting for the Mac App Store to download iPhoto and GarageBand, though. I don't want to deal with discs (and shipping) anymore.

Now that I think of it, I have no idea where the closest Apple Store is to my campus... (Edit: an hour away both directions...)
 
I'm finding the Flickr integration woeful, though that maybe in part Flickr/My ISP. That said iPhoto shouldn't really go in to painful death/slow mode so often.

Not overly impressed with iPhoto to be honest - it's mainly a tool to put images on my iPhone/Facebook at the moment. I'd just like a slight less dead/slow version.
 
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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If they are so "priceless and matter to the user and they don't backup before installing, they are idiots! Who are these morons who blindly trust a computer and software with their photos sans backup?!
 
CplBadboy said:
Add iPhone 4 to the list, the iMac screen issue, MacPro video cards.... the list goes on. Do Apple actually have a R&D dept?
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Oh, I think they definitely have a R&D dept. I don't think they have a QA department.

I'm a switcher 2 years in now. I love my Macs and other Apple goodies, but I gotta say that I'm no longer impressed as much, and I'm growing weary of Apple's arrogance, pushing out stuff before it's ready, and telling me where and what to buy for apps.

Someone else in this thread said this program would not make it into the Mac App store. Since it's an Apple app in an Apple controlled ecosystem (yes, I know it can be purchased outside the app store, which doesn't even exist yet), I wonder how true that statement really is.
 
MikeSweden said:
Installed I11 and actually thought I lost some photos. I have a lot of "folders" of pics and actually found that the order was rearranged. So newer photos were found in the middle of the old ones. Perhaps thats a problem that more than me have. Not so fun, but at least the pics are not permanently lost.

Whoa
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Same problem I had but I simply went under the "VIEW" menu and under sorting I chose "sort by date" and now everything is back to normal. I think people are mistakingly thinking they lost photos but they are all still there just sorted differently.
 
roland.g said:
-you forgot, quit your job as your method of managing digital photos is a full-time job. Oh, wait, no thanks. I have 11,000+ photos in my iPhoto library, no problems, I have TM back up my internal regularly. And I keep an offsite backup of my iPhoto library file that I update somewhat frequently - enough that if I lost everything I would only lose up to a month's worth of photos. And I know how to browse the package contents of my iPhoto library file to find images, even with Apple's method of cataloging.
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You sir forgot that I have a job, hence I can afford a Mac, external HD, DSLR etc etc. And kids and a wife on top of that. My way of managing photos is for the paranoid. And I wasn't one until I lost about a month worth of photos of my kids Years ago, when a year old Dell desktop's HD took a dive.

It's all good and dandy that you know how to browse photos in Finder but can you browse photos using Face Detection of iPhoto? Create slideshow in Finder like you can in iPhoto?

And yes I store my photos offsite using the cloud, not just offsite at your office/home of friend. That reminds me of another benefit of why it's better to keep photos in native format instead of just using iPhoto. You can upload many smaller files into the cloud with much less difficulty than uploading a huge iPhoto Library.

I spent time writing out my workflow so that others can learn from it. They obviously don't have to do everything or the exact same way but it does give them new ways to do things.

So you can take you negative attitude and sxxxx it.
 
You can open up other libraries and older versions anytime. Perhaps take the iphoto library and copy it to another location on the hard drive or external HD. If one library gets corrupted, try opening the backup (but back that up again).

You hold down the alt/option key when launching iphoto to choose another library.
 
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If you are going to make a cheesy joke, At least get the joke right. The picture was of the kids in 1985, not the parents at the Enchantment Under The Sea dance.
 
BC2009 said:
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.
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Similar backup strategy here which includes Crashplan. Piece of mind, and I sleep way better at night (or when traveling) knowing everything is backed up offsite. Priceless!
 
slu said:
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If you are going to make a cheesy joke, At least get the joke right. The picture was of the kids in 1985, not the parents at the Enchantment Under The Sea dance.
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Yes of course. But the joke was about iphoto erasing the history of the event at the dance equating to them never having met... A little twist on it. Forget it.
 
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