OS X Yosemite 10.10.3 Public Beta With Photos App Now Available

vixster1901 said:
try deleting wifi in network settings and then +(add) it back in.
and also go to wifi/advance and delete all networks you are not using..

I am enjoying the read of photo app reviews... I hoping for the best. has anyone tried it with a 650gb library?
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It's buggy Yosemite, actually Discoveryd is part of the problem, I tried quite a lot, not all though, it's fairly stable now, but still have disconnects daily.
I am a power user (now my system well) and I am sure I can correct the problem, but have other things on my mind, cheers for the reply though.
 
Endorse snappy

I endorse the "snappy" comments, but it's not science.

Saw that Photos icon in the dock. Scary. Never used iPhoto much. After years of trying, got comfortable with Aperture. Since the announcement, all new stuff goes to Lightroom/Photoshop $9.99/month option. Not optimal. I will only be angry if Photos quickly gets to Aperture level. Many have speculated it would, and have the Final Cut Pro X comeback and Logic Pro recent upgrade to point to.
So I'm leaving Aperture work alone, and we will see what happens.
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Photos is the WORST

Holy Cow!
Apple HAS managed to bring the Mobile Experience to the desktop. If I wanted dumbed-down software, I would already be using iPhoto on my iPhone. I'll continue to use Apples abandoned Aperture, while searching for a suitable replacement.
 
CaTOAGU said:
I've not tested extensively but it looks like you could yes. I trashed my iPhoto library and the Photos app opens and works. But, as this is a beta release I'd make sure you have backup of the old file just in case.
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It is OK to delete since the photo files are imported into the Photos Library as hard links. So basically the same file can be in two places and if you delete one of them the other one will remain.
 
RustyIron said:
Holy Cow!
Apple HAS managed to bring the Mobile Experience to the desktop. If I wanted dumbed-down software, I would already be using iPhoto on my iPhone. I'll continue to use Apples abandoned Aperture, while searching for a suitable replacement.
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Dumbed down compared to what? Photos is going to be a huge hit for 97% of Mac/iOS users. It's more powerful, better editing and seamless syncing everywhere is huge

of course that 3% is pretty vocal :)
 
RustyIron said:
Holy Cow!
Apple HAS managed to bring the Mobile Experience to the desktop. If I wanted dumbed-down software, I would already be using iPhoto on my iPhone. I'll continue to use Apples abandoned Aperture, while searching for a suitable replacement.
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I am not even close to being a professional photographer and I like the new Photos app better than iPhoto. Professionals in photography should probably not be using a an app that comes pre loaded with the OS to manage and edit their work.

This app will be great for more casual users, and its still a beta.
 
I like Photos but it seems to hang when I want to delete pictures. I do like the interface, nice and clean and the tagging. I miss the 'show in finder' function. I hope it gets more stable as the time goes by :)
 
Totally disappointed. My wife, kids, and I share the same Aperture library and are thus able to sync that family album to all our devices. I thought having Photos library in cloud was going to make that even easier. Instead we can't. I can have the entire library on all my devices. The wife and kids can only view on my login on Mac and not at all on their devices. What a waste. What's the point. What family keeps 4 separate libraries and manually shares those into a shared iCloud library. My photos in the cloud should be visible to my family sharing members. :(

Back to Aperture and ITunes syncing then.
 
zerolight said:
Totally disappointed. My wife, kids, and I share the same Aperture library and are thus able to sync that family album to all our devices. I thought having Photos library in cloud was going to make that even easier. Instead we can't. I can have the entire library on all my devices. The wife and kids can only view on my login on Mac and not at all on their devices. What a waste. What's the point. What family keeps 4 separate libraries and manually shares those into a shared iCloud library. My photos in the cloud should be visible to my family sharing members. :(

Back to Aperture and ITunes syncing then.
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Why would you want all the pictures you put on your devices to go to 3 other family members?

Shared photo streams are not hard and I control what photos I want to be shared. I've never heard of a family of 4 all having all of their photos being sent to each other's devices automatically.
 
Belmont31R said:
Why would you want all the pictures you put on your devices to go to 3 other family members?



Shared photo streams are not hard and I control what photos I want to be shared. I've never heard of a family of 4 all having all of their photos being sent to each other's devices automatically.
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Why wouldn't you? My wife and I share an SLR. Should we import holiday photos into my login on the Mac then go to hers and import again? Or would you expect her to only view pictures on my login, or make iMovies through my login because I'm the only one with the master library?

We have a family photo album. Why would I want our recent Florida vacation to be partly on my login and partly on my wife's instead of in one single family album.

In Aperture, we have a master library. It has smart albums set to past year, past 6 months, past month, past week. We always have those syncing and updated on our phones.

I'm quite sure when my kids are teenagers they will opt out of a shared album from my wife and I, but the are 6 and 9!

If you think it is unheard of to want a shared album across users on a single Mac and the ability for said users to sync that to their devices then I don't know what to tell you. But it is exceptionally common. It's easy to do with Aperture. Possible but complex with iPhoto. Stupidly absent in iCloud.
 
Oh thank god - emoji features added, finally!

Hopefully :apple:can make yosemite wifi compatible and make the power button on my Mac Pro sleep in maybe the next version?

Wifi - it will never take of ya know.
 
zerolight said:
Why wouldn't you? My wife and I share an SLR. Should we import holiday photos into my login on the Mac then go to hers and import again? Or would you expect her to only view pictures on my login, or make iMovies through my login because I'm the only one with the master library?

We have a family photo album. Why would I want our recent Florida vacation to be partly on my login and partly on my wife's instead of in one single family album.

In Aperture, we have a master library. It has smart albums set to past year, past 6 months, past month, past week. We always have those syncing and updated on our phones.

I'm quite sure when my kids are teenagers they will opt out of a shared album from my wife and I, but the are 6 and 9!

If you think it is unheard of to want a shared album across users on a single Mac and the ability for said users to sync that to their devices then I don't know what to tell you. But it is exceptionally common. It's easy to do with Aperture. Possible but complex with iPhoto. Stupidly absent in iCloud.
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I tend to have some photos that I need for a short time on my phone or Mac for school or work that don't need to get sent to my wife's phone. We have a shared 'Family' Photostream album that we share to. Its not automatically syncing every photo that gets onto my phone or Mac though (which is what I want to happen). We currently have over 1600 photos and videos in the shared Family album.

If you're taking photos with a camera, and then uploading them onto a Mac, you can just select an entire date range in Photos then share them to a Photostream album. Pretty easy.

I guess I just don't see the need to have every picture synced across an entire family's devices no matter what.
 
So are folks going to trust the cloud to have the only copy of photos/videos or are you going to do. Local copy/backup. I don't care if my music or documents are lost....but do care if that happens to family memories.
 
Tullymn said:
So are folks going to trust the cloud to have the only copy of photos/videos or are you going to do. Local copy/backup. I don't care if my music or documents are lost....but do care if that happens to family memories.
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My home mac will download the originals in Photos, which is then backed up by Time Machine and Backblaze.
 
Belmont31R said:
Why would you want all the pictures you put on your devices to go to 3 other family members?

Shared photo streams are not hard and I control what photos I want to be shared. I've never heard of a family of 4 all having all of their photos being sent to each other's devices automatically.
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Same here. I think I'd be horrified if I got all the pictures my kids took
 
Anyone know if there's a way to sort by filenames in Photos? All I can seem to do is sort by date or whatever way Photos wants to sort them by default.
 
Everything was downloaded late last night and I have spent most of the day playing around with Photo. I did NOT go to iCloud but chose to have them all on my hard drive.

My question is: I have been able to open Photos separately using two different libraries. .... How can I import that 2nd library into Photo and merge them?
 
iubhounds said:
My question is: I have been able to open Photos separately using two different libraries. .... How can I import that 2nd library into Photo and merge them?
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Sorry for the previous post/question ... it was an easy process, I figured it out.
 
ErikGrim said:
Photos has not moved past 1% in the last 24 hours with my 193Gb Aperture library. Is this normal?
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It happened to me. I turned off iCloud drive and restarted the process...now after a day it is at about 60%. Working fine though and should be done sometime today...I have about 170 gigs.
 
ostrykolesz said:
Love photos, quick and simple. I just want to view photos when I open the app and that's what photos does - but smoothly.

Unfortunately I bought a router (TP-Link Archer C7) today that is not "compatible" with my Macbook Pro and I was hoping that this update would fix my 30 second wake delay issue. Oh well, back to the store it will go.

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It's more functional than iphoto. No lag what so ever. Awesome app.
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iPhote has no lag to. How old is your Mac??? Photos is not functional. It's a mess compared to iPhoto
 
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