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iPhoto '11 Upgrade Causing Headaches for Some Users

No problems upgrading to iPhoto 11 for me. In fact, it recovered about 20 photos I thought I had lost from an import a few weeks ago. I'm loving the 'Places" slideshow theme. I sent feedback to Apple asking for more control over the labels it displays, but overall its truly 'magical.'
 
dotnsk said:
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. :)
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I own, and run the mailserver out of a local datacenter. I have no limits on my domain. ;)
 
I didn't lose anything. All intact. I'm not defending the decision but it should have been clear Apple was abandoning the original AppleTV when they clarified that there would be no software update to support Netflix. Or AirPlay, as you can still stream to AirTunes from a Mac but I doubt you can stream from an iOS 4.2 device.

But this is on my MacBook Air. About 1,600 photos, all either dupes also on the main household Mac, DVD and Time Machine, or iPhone camera photos, backed up via Time Machine. On the household Mac, it's running iPhoto '08. If I can avoid it, I'll never upgrade that. It's stable, 4,000+ photos and a bunch of home movies are safe, and if I want to order new book options I can just import those photos into iPhoto '11 (or greater) on another Mac.

I find digital photography makes you paranoid unless you order prints of everything.
 
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Glad I read this before I upgraded my aunt's iPhoto. Looks like she's staying where she's at. What a load of crap.
 
iCry

Everyone keeps saying never install a .0.0 version... but um, it's been how long since they updated iPhoto? Oh yeah, over 2 years :eek: And considering they used to do this annually, there is really no excuse for this to be so buggy.

No wonder there was no update to iWeb and iDVD... they couldn't figure out why they couldn't share images from iPhoto. Here, they were just gone!
"Hmm, well, just package the old versions. Jobs has a demo, and if he finds out, the s&*t will really hit the fan. Just give him some bad statistic, like people don't watch DVD's anymore."
 
Flowbee said:
No problems upgrading to iPhoto 11 for me. In fact, it recovered about 20 photos I thought I had lost from an import a few weeks ago. I'm loving the 'Places" slideshow theme. I sent feedback to Apple asking for more control over the labels it displays, but overall its truly 'magical.'
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It's probably one of those things: a tiny minority will lose photos, but people rarely backup data and are exceptionally attached to photos.

If I lost photos I wouldn't go reinstalling anything just yet. It may be a mere indexing error and a quick bug fix will "restore" the "lost" photos.
 
it's not rocket science that you should backup your important data regardless of upgrading or not. someday your mac will die and will you cry because you lost all of your data because of SSD or HDD failure? always backup data, no matter what.
 
Apple has no quality control anymore.

It's pathetic. And I am an Apple :apple: fan, but too many Apple apps are launched before they are ready these days. Remember what a disaster Aperture 3 was?! Do these developers not actually use these apps on their own machines before they are sent out to market?? Keep this up Apple, and your fans will be running out the door. :mad:
 
That's no good.
Take the time with the software Apple, it's the big reasons that we love our Macs.
Aperture had a rough update back in Feb. - my mobile me galleries just now came back last week with 3.1 (luckily, I don't really use those and ... had actually forgotten about them). Airport has long been not-so-Apple like in it's lack of ease. Perhaps a cycle to train all the new guys on excellence.
 
"Sharing/Emailing"

BKF said:
I haven't noticed lost images, knock wood. But it's a sloooow program, yes.

The loss of ability simply to email photos as attachments is the biggest problem and surprise. I often send images out of iPhoto for professional purposes; someone else's version of a clever framing device for the pictures is nothing but a hassle.

The feature would be fine if there was a simple "Send as attachment" option, but there doesn't appear to be.
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This +1. I greatly miss the send as attachment with size choices. No thanks on the postcard graphics.
 
im sure iphoto will be fixed soon. i guess i will try out aperture to see if it's any better than iphoto for normal use. No raw picture use =P
 
Scrolling performance on both my i7 imac and 2008 MBP is ******. 6K photo library and scrolling inside it is not as smooth as it should be.

I look at how smoothly my iPad can scroll the same size library and wonder why my significantly more powerful Macs choke.
 
Surfheart said:
Scrolling performance on both my i7 imac and 2008 MBP is ******. 6K photo library and scrolling inside it is not as smooth as it should be.

I look at how smoothly my iPad can scroll the same size library and wonder why my significantly more powerful Macs choke.
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Probably a HDD versus a SSD.
 
ppc_michael said:
So wait, this iPhoto problem deletes images from the hard drive?! As in, They don't exist in ~/Pictures anymore? That's ridiculous.

Anybody remember that software update that accidentally deleted your hard drive from the root a few years ago? Maybe it was the same team. :p
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Has anyone in this thread actually lost any photos? I keep hearing people freaking out about it, but is it actually happening to anybody here?
 
Apple Forum Discussions?

Hmmm was reading several of the iLife discussion groups on this topic, and the whole Support Communities discussion area just went offline!
 
I upgraded over the weekend on my Imac and MacBook and haven't seen any evidence of these issues. It works great for me.
 
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Glad I read this before I upgraded my aunt's iPhoto. Looks like she's staying where she's at. What a load of crap.
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So you're ignoring the vast majority of people who aren't having any problems?
 
Just one of the reasons why I don't actually import my photos into iPhoto. They are stored on an external HD and I import them into iPhoto using a Referenced Library.

dba7dba said:
-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.
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Can you explain more what iPhoto Buddy has to offer? Based on the advantage you mentioned above, iPhoto can already do that on it's own. If you launch iPhoto and then hold down the option key while it loads, it will list all your libraries. You can choose another library or create a new one.
 
Calendars

UpQuark said:
Calendar is not included in iLife11 but will be:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4258?viewlocale=en_US
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Thank you for this link. I too live outside the US and like to send iPhoto calendars to my parents back at home.

But perhaps the most interesting part in that document you link to is the very last Q&A. Apple replies specifically that they don't want you to down-grade to iPhoto 2009. To me, that is bad planning on the part of the engineers who created that software. But I will admit, it's probably Steve Jobs who told them to do it that way.

Thankfully, I've not yet upgraded to iPhone 2011. But I was seriously thinking about it today, prior to reading this article and forum!
 
Holy crap!:eek: How is anybody defending Apple on this? Yes, people should make back ups (I use time machine, but I should probably also use some online backup as well), but that doesn't excuse Apple.

I'm a software developer. Guess what - my job is converting data from the last generation of one of our products to the current generation. Yes, there are bugs and sometimes the conversion doesn't go as it should, but we don't trash existing data. Seriously, any halfway decent design review or code review should have caught something as prevalent as this.

For everyone that says hard drive space is cheap - you're absolutely right, it is cheap. Apple should have taken advantage of it. If they needed to modify data, in place, they should have made copies of everything and then modified the copies. If the user didn't have enough space for this, then they could have just prevented the user from proceeding on converting data.
 
JustSomeDude said:
Holy crap!:eek: How is anybody defending Apple on this? Yes, people should make back ups (I use time machine, but I should probably also use some online backup as well), but that doesn't excuse Apple.
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I still don't understand how people are defending Apple on this, or other data-loss issues in Apple's history. Backups or not, a software bug causing data loss is completely unacceptable and I don't believe there is a single excuse that can justify it.

If this was Microsoft (or Photoshop), the very people making excuses for Apple would be going crazy, but because it's Apple, it's somehow ok?
 
Terrible Software

I'm becoming more and more suspicious of Apple's known software quality. iPhone 11 is terrible. I haven't noticed any photo lost but I didn't have time to check. However, during the upgrade process (updating the library) iPhone kept crashing. I had to try at least 6 times before and went though. This makes me thing that I probably lost something... which will make me really upset. I know we should back up our data but the installation process does not make that recommendation which made me thing the process did not mess with my photos directly.

This is turning out to be like the old Apple TV (I own one) which is still in my opinion the worst equipment Apple has ever done. iPhoto 11 may be the software version of the AppleTV given the many complaints I read about.

QUESTION: Is there an easy way to check if one has lost photos? I have thousand of photos and I can't see to check everything manually.
 
Dropping support for the older AppleTV is just unacceptable. I wasn't expecting to be screwed this bad on buying a first gen product.

Its no wonder the first rev didn't sell well, people knew Apple would pull crap like this. I get not supporting much older products. Apple should at least support products 3 or 4 years old.
 
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