What's New in macOS High Sierra: APFS, Metal 2, Photos Improvements, Safari Autoplay Blocking and More

[ignatius345]

I keep my Lightroom catalog in a Dropbox (Pro) shared folder but had too many problems with 2 different machines accidentally opening that catalog simultaneously. Doing so is like Ghostbusters crossing the streams... bad things.

I've not looked at Google photos too much, is there a good desktop (even if it's browser based) app for doing edits, facial recognition, EXIF data manipulation, Geotagging, etc?

Photos + shared Apple ID seems to be the only thing that is going to work.

Not entirely sure. Your requirements are very specific. You are probably in the realm of commercial software for professional photographers?

 

[flat five]

I keep my Lightroom catalog in a Dropbox (Pro) shared folder but had too many problems with 2 different machines accidentally opening that catalog simultaneously. Doing so is like Ghostbusters crossing the streams... bad things.

fwiw, if you do that when syncing desktop/documents with iCloud, it will tell you that two versions are opened and ask which one you want to keep.. (then update the appropriate computer depending on your choice)..

that said, my experience is with single documents (though using non-apple applications).. i'm not sure what would happen with a Lightroom library.

 

[toke lahti]

All modern HDDs and SSDs use error correcting codes (ECC), which makes additional error correction superfluous.

Long time ago, I was making system disk images. To save some disk space, I compressed the images with 7z. It took hours to compress one image and almost as long to decompress one. I did remember to test that every compressed image decompressd and after that the image opened. But later I needed disk space and copied those 7z-images to some old disks with usb attached dock. I didn't check after copying, that the images would open. When I did, they didn't open. Maybe the driver for usb dock was flaky. Maybe there was something with those disks. After that, I have hoped that file system would monitor the data integrity and not leaving it to somebody elses problem.

 

[Rossatron]

I miss the time updates were just that - updates; with none of this "new os" none sense. It's becoming pathetic.

 

[Eric5h5]

I miss the time updates were just that - updates; with none of this "new os" none sense. It's becoming pathetic.

You're missing something that never existed. The only material difference between now and, say, 10 years ago is that the major version updates are released on a more regular schedule.

--Eric

 

[huperniketes]

I miss the time updates were just that - updates; with none of this "new os" none sense. It's becoming pathetic.

Major version updates never came without new features. And often minor version updates also provided new functionality too. And oftentimes, fixes to bugs, security, incompatibilities, etc. were only available on major version upgrades as well.