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OS X 10.10.3 With All-New Photos App Launching Later Today

Losing Photos

Hi, I have lots of photos and have them backed up. But I'm still afraid of the nightmare of losing photos if I update. Should this be an release of OS that I should hold off on taking?
 
newellj said:
Yeah. Going from mezzo to worse. How do I block 10.3? ;) (I know the answer, the question is rhetorical.)
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You're neither forced to install 10.10.3 nor use Photos. iPhoto (and Aperture) has continued to work through all the betas.
 
I currently use picasa because I can't stand iPhoto and I prefer to organize my photos in folders. Does the new Photos app put all the photos in a database like iPhoto or does it work with folders?

Given all the comments about the lack of functionality should I just stick with picasa (which I like, but has been largely abandoned by Google)?
 
Excellent news!

I've been putting up with iPhoto for WAY too long. The latest thing it likes to do is somehow double, sometimes triple, sometimes quadruple the photos on my phone. I assume this is iPhoto and not the phone, it could very well be the other way around. It is very annoying.
 
Anyone who'd been on the beta - does it allow for auto import/sync of Family share photos, or do I still have to manually sync them from, say, my wifes phone?
 
minimo3 said:
I currently use picasa because I can't stand iPhoto and I prefer to organize my photos in folders. Does the new Photos app put all the photos in a database like iPhoto or does it work with folders?

Given all the comments about the lack of functionality should I just stick with picasa (which I like, but has been largely abandoned by Google)?
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From the "where are my local photo's standpoint?", its just like iPhoto from what I've read. You'll probably want to stick with Picasa or move to another organizer that uses folders.
 
mr.bee said:
As I see it with the beta in Finder, it IS copied and it takes up extra space.

Can you explain then why in beta I have two photo libraries both 20 something GB and a 'pictures folder' that is 40 something GB?
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It only appears that way, but it is not taking up twice the space due to "hard links." There is a good article here that explains it.
 
freediverx said:
It's a nice improvement over iPhoto but not even a shadow of Aperture. Worse yet, Apple has provided zero guidance on whether they intend to ever augment Photo's capabilities to be more in line with Aperture's.

This is far worse than what they did, for example, with Final Cur Pro X. With that product, they basically screwed up the messaging and the release, but at least they later promised to bring it up to the capabilities of its predecessor and within a year or so they did. Today, all but the most stubborn old Final Cut users concede that the new version is good.

There is no reason to expect Photos will ever develop Aperture's advanced editing and organizing features, and Apple doesn't see fit to comment on this one way or another.
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According to Apple, Photos is designed to be extensible by third parties (much more so than iPhoto/Aperture). Clearly, the big question out there is whether the usual suspects and/or others will come out with good and useful plugins for Photos. Potentially, these could restore some if not much of the functionality in Aperture which Photos doesn't have and perhaps provide functions that Aperture never had (like automatic lens corrections!).
 
jlseattle said:
Hi, I have lots of photos and have them backed up. But I'm still afraid of the nightmare of losing photos if I update. Should this be an release of OS that I should hold off on taking?
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Go read the Apple Discussions thread about 'iTunes losing song files'. I'll never put anything like photos into someone else's program. And yes, I have a full manually maintained copy of all of my music files (and videos). Apple is just not worrying about the right things.
 
Brian Y said:
Not sure I want to trust hundreds of GB of photos to iCloud.
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Then don't. Back them up elsewhere. And then just use iCloud for the awesome sync it does between all of your devices. I now have every photo on my phone and iPad. Which is awesome and easy and works.
 
Can't wait. I've been using the Photos App for a few weeks, it's amazing. I opted to sign up for a .99/month subscription for more iCloud storage so that ALL my photos could be backed up. I think I have close to 20GBs.
 
Am I the only person who doesn't like the organisational system in the new photos app? Coming from iPhoto where everything is organised nearly into events whichever way we choose, the new app just throws all photos in together with no say over how to organise them. Putting them into albums just isn't the same.

However, I am a fan of the design and speed.
 
This should be interesting. I just moved all my pictures and videos to the Amazon cloud (unlimited storage for $59 deal), turned off icloud photo syncing and am using Amazon.

I'll for sure grab this update for the photo editing features since Amazon is just storage and provides very little in terms of editing anything on the photo (even the name, meta-data etc). I guess I'll see how well it (the new apple photos app) does with syncing and family sharing before moving everything back. I guess I could have waited a few days but was just getting tired of iPhoto.
 
The verge guy doesnt seems to know much about fitness

lol wrong topic
 
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My biggest hassle right now is having multiple iPhoto libraries without a way to consolidate them.

Does the Photos app have the ability to import and consolidate multiple iPhoto libraries into the new app?
 
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