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Ahh, can’t remember the last time I even touched this app…not surprised that such a bug went unnoticed. Wouldn’t be surprised if this gets worked into some miscommunicated hysteria about Apple and QC though…this app is beyond niche and a solid 90% of people don’t use it and won’t be affected in *any way* by this, whether the app is even on their computer or not. Simple as that. Hope Apple fixes it in a prompt manner.
90%, eh? I use this app all the time to scan documents.
 
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Not that it is relevant, but there is a similar bug in Windows that creates 10's of thousands of empty files in the system directory. There is no fix other than a reinstall or to occasionally delete all of them. The drive fills up slowly so maybe every few months they have to be purged.
 
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Since Image Capture isn't on the Dock by default, I wonder how many people use this app to import photos from an iOS device when Photos can do it automatically? As others, I use IC just with my scanner. So I haven't seen that issue yet.
Anyone who's smart enough to not use Photos.

I assume if you don't do the conversion step, the bug doesn't manifest. Will have to test that, I of course disabled HEIC on the phone ages ago so there should be nothing other than a straight data transfer going on.
 
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Anyone who's smart enough to not use Photos.

I assume if you don't do the conversion step, the bug doesn't manifest. Will have to test that, I of course disabled HEIC on the phone ages ago so there should be nothing other than a straight data transfer going on.

I was annoyed when I read about this but realized that I did the same thing a long time ago also. Hopefully it's just jpg to jpg.
 
I used to use Image Capture extensively for all my photos. With iCloud Photo Library now, however, I have no need for the application.

I think Apple should just do away with Image Capture altogether and have people just use Photos.app, while offering the ability within Photos.app to transfer photos to the hard drive, to a specific folder. Would also be nice if Photos.app gained IC's ability to scan as well, then import to the library or to the hard drive.
 
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I used to use Image Capture extensively for all my photos. With iCloud Photo Library now, however, I have no need for the application.

I think Apple should just do away with Image Capture altogether and have people just use Photos.app, while offering the ability within Photos.app to transfer photos to the hard drive, to a specific folder. Would also be nice if Photos.app gained IC's ability to scan as well, then import to the library or to the hard drive.
But it's used for lots of other little functionality too as mentioned, like scanning.
 
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If you have a scanner you have no choice, I have an older epson scanner that stopped developing drivers and forced me to use that app. I opted to use windows, as the epson software was more robust then Image Capture ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Check out Hamrick's Vue Scan. Best scanner software around, supports a lot of scanners going way back, reasonably priced and he updates it frequently.
 
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I used to use Image Capture extensively for all my photos. With iCloud Photo Library now, however, I have no need for the application.

I think Apple should just do away with Image Capture altogether and have people just use Photos.app, while offering the ability within Photos.app to transfer photos to the hard drive, to a specific folder. Would also be nice if Photos.app gained IC's ability to scan as well, then import to the library or to the hard drive.
I use Image Capture all the time because of iCloud Photo Library. When I've got a couple hundred images on my camera's SD card I use Image Capture to import them and cull them, so that Photos doesn't send them all up to iPL. I'm only going to keep a handful of them, so I do a quick pass first and then upload. Uploading the 20 or so photos to keep takes a lot less time than the 300 photos I started with, lol.

(As such I'm not affected by this bug: I just have my camera set to capture in JPEG anyway.)

You're right otherwise, though: with my iPhone it just goes right to iCloud Photo Library, no middle-man needed.
 
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I use Image Capture all the time because of iCloud Photo Library. When I've got a couple hundred images on my camera's SD card I use Image Capture to import them and cull them, so that Photos doesn't send them all up to iPL. I'm only going to keep a handful of them, so I do a quick pass first and then upload. Uploading the 20 or so photos to keep takes a lot less time than the 300 photos I started with, lol.

(As such I'm not affected by this bug: I just have my camera set to capture in JPEG anyway.)

You're right otherwise, though: with my iPhone it just goes right to iCloud Photo Library, no middle-man needed.
Same here. I use Image Capture (yes it is on my dock) to import pictures from my dslr, ipad, and iphone. I put images into an import folder (that I don’t delete). Then I move the pictures and cull to dated folders. From there, I add only really good photos to my Photos albums using reference pointers within Photos. Then I go back and delete photos from the devices. I only do it a few times a year. I don’t want to pay for icloud which isn’t guaranteed to work or be backed up like my synced drives and off site backups.
 
I am actually really happy to see this, as I filed a bug report with Apple a few weeks ago due to Photos not freeing up local storage space on my iOS devices after importing and uploading photos and videos. Despite “optimize device storage” always being selected, the only way I have been able to free space has been to constantly restore my iPhone and iPads (even though they show dozens to hundreds of GB of free local storage). It sounds like these issues could be linked.
 
Same here. I use Image Capture (yes it is on my dock) to import pictures from my dslr, ipad, and iphone. I put images into an import folder (that I don’t delete). Then I move the pictures and cull to dated folders. From there, I add only really good photos to my Photos albums using reference pointers within Photos. Then I go back and delete photos from the devices. I only do it a few times a year. I don’t want to pay for icloud which isn’t guaranteed to work or be backed up like my synced drives and off site backups.

I occasionally take a massive number of photos, and I use IC to transfer them from SD to my mac to photos. I back my photos up to Amazon (it's free, why not) because both my old Aperture and new Photos library get corrupted ocassionally. It happens every two or three years, but do you really want to lose your entire photo library every two-three years? I can live with the loss of metadata.

When my library was smaller Time Machine could handle it, but my library's over 3TB, which seems to be beyond TM's abilities.
 
What's interesting from the article stating, 'Dear Apple...' about not releasing updates annually it causes too many problems, is when Microsoft started to follow suit is when their updates are now causing colossal eff-ups. Microsoft copied because they wanted to be cool like Apple. Looks like they both can't handle it after all. Maybe it is time to go back to the way things used to be done.

Not just with the software, but hardware too. We don't need a new phone very year. We are now at a point where new tech plateaus. We don't need a major keynote speech discussing how many billions of apps were sold pat on your back fests to tell us about some feature that was available in Cydia for three years already or more realistic looking emojis, or siri voice improvements. Who cares. Just fix the bugs already. It is amazing how many of these bugs that are still here back when you called your OSes after cats!
 
I am actually really happy to see this, as I filed a bug report with Apple a few weeks ago due to Photos not freeing up local storage space on my iOS devices after importing and uploading photos and videos. Despite “optimize device storage” always being selected, the only way I have been able to free space has been to constantly restore my iPhone and iPads (even though they show dozens to hundreds of GB of free local storage). It sounds like these issues could be linked.

Same here, also reported.

It's unbelievable in 2020, one is still unable to clear the recently deleted folder with huge amounts of photos without freezing the entire phone and messing up the local storage space. They try to lock you to iCloud in a disgusting way but give you 5gb of storage which is laughable.

In fact, there are posts from this on MR since iOS9.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/how-i-flushed-the-recently-deleted-folder-ios-9.1989797/
 
I am just SO unfreaking-believably sick and tired of Apple’s totally incomprehensible (at best) or incompetent (at worst) approach to QA for MacOS.

SMH


Thank the contractors. They don't care about QA. They care only about getting the contracts and getting them done on time. Apple doesn't have enough of an HR budget to hire any more full-time employees apparently. 😣
 
Not that it is relevant, but there is a similar bug in Windows that creates 10's of thousands of empty files in the system directory. There is no fix other than a reinstall or to occasionally delete all of them. The drive fills up slowly so maybe every few months they have to be purged.

Are you referring to this? It's an easy fix by following the steps in the article or even easier by booting into safe mode and deleting cbs.log and all the cabs. They're just logs so no big deal to just purge them all. And, harder to trigger since cbs.log size has to hit 2GB when it's normally a few hundred KB. Dumb bug but not the same severity.

https://www.computerworld.com/artic...pression-bug-can-fill-up-your-hard-drive.html
 
Since Image Capture isn't on the Dock by default, I wonder how many people use this app to import photos from an iOS device when Photos can do it automatically? As others, I use IC just with my scanner. So I haven't seen that issue yet.

I transfer all my Photos weekly to my Mac and I use Image Capture. And I noticed some problems with it at times. Previously I used Aperture and I refuse to use the garbage app Photos. It is mind boggling that Apple is not able to make a descent app to transfer photos from device to device.
 
Alert Wolf Blitzer, CNN.. BREAKING NEWS: I have not used Image Capture since 2014 at my former employer to scan an occasional old photo or pencil sketch. Glad someone found a bug in an App no one uses any more. LOL! Peace, Blitzer Out!
 
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