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Re: Photography on a Mac

Paul Watson — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 07:06:29 -0000

Thanks Matt, I'll give that a try

Re: Photography on a Mac

Matt Musselman — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 22:36:41 -0000

Hi Paul,

In the meantime, I found out you can get iPhoto to rebuild its thumbnail cache and do other library repairs by holding down apple+option(alt) while you launch iPhoto (keep holding until it starts up.

This will give you a dialogue box with options of what to repair.

Not sure why they had to make the function so obscure...

Re: Photography on a Mac

Paul Watson — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 12:49:11 -0000

Aperture is not just too expensive it is also a long-term nightmare that I don't want to invest in. If it cost $5 I wouldn't buy it.

I don't take 100s of photos a day, my collection is from several years of taking digital photos. I mostly shoot on weekends and yes, then I'll take a few hundred in two or so days. Not a lot really, many DSLR owners will be doing the same.

Re: Photography on a Mac

Paul Kabowsky — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 19:27:44 -0000

If you've got 500GB of files and take hundreds of pics a day then you must be a professional or someone with way too much time on your hands. Is 200 quid a lot for an app in your position???

Re: Photography on a Mac

Paul Watson — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 14:50:00 -0000

True but iPhoto doesn't handle my photo library size. It abstracts but doesn't do a very good job of it on large datasets.

If iPhoto cached better it would be a usable tool even for me. But it doesn't.

Re: Photography on a Mac

Suresh Kumar — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 13:16:16 -0000

Paul,

I think you are fundamentally missing the point.

Tools like iPhoto or Aperture, etc... provide Library Management as well photo touching/metatdata...

The whole point of applications like iLife (including iTunes) is to abstract the filesystem (your not supposed to delve down there). Im afraid that you are so used to living in Windows (Explorer metaphor) that you are struggling to realise that you need to 'manage' everything through the application.

If you use iTunes it works in a similar way...

Re: Photography on a Mac

Paul Watson — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 17:09:55 -0000

Thanks mica. I just tried xee and it caches already viewed files nicely but it doesn't preload. So trying to flick through a directory of images is dead slow the first time. It also has no thumbnail view which is pretty useful.

Re: Photography on a Mac

mica — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 06:52:34 -0000

xee?

Re: Photography on a Mac

Paul Watson — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 05:57:46 -0000

I don't think it is a particularly well designed app. Slow and full of unneeded features. I actually haven't used it since I switched to OS X so I'll give it a try again, thanks for the reminder.

Re: Photography on a Mac

Jim — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 23:38:30 -0000

What's wrong with using Photoshop's File Browser?