On Sunday, March 14, 2004, at 08:11 AM, Roger Shufflebottom wrote:
At 11:52 -0800 13/3/04, Aaron Willems wrote:Apple only made iPhoto for OS X. One of those killer Apps created by Apple to get people to switch over to X.
I would not call it a killer app! The obscure file and folder naming conventions drove me mad. I stopped using it and now use a combination of Photoshop and GraphicConverter.
But do you really care how it makes the xml reference folders?
I have a big dir of "digital camera pics" with many subdirs.
I indexed them all as "albums" individually so I have separate named albums, names of which are also the actual directory name of the primary files, plus I made one big "everything" album that has the entire "digital camera pics" folder. The latter is perhaps a duplication of the "photo library" album that gets constructed but hey, make the CPU work a little :)
I noticed that after loading all these gigs into it, that it was making duplicates of the images in the library dir (ala iTunes default setting) but heck I've got the space and I like having a backup of the photos (the dir that I store the photos, is actually on a separate partition from
/home which is even safer for backup. And I'd be backing up to backup dir somewhere, anyway- so I'd have just as much space used up).
I use iPhoto2 to scroll and select multiple photos for exporting to a separate directory, selecting either from one specific album or from the album of "Everything". Then I just open up the export dir, all the files that I want to print/resize/email whatever are all on that one place, easy for batch operations with GraphicConverter or whatever.
Is this (making a duplicate xml dir in /home/documents/pictures/iPhoto library), sorted by year or whatever it is doing) the issue you mention? For me, and the workflow I mention, I don't see it as a problem. I'd never be working with data in that file tree anyway, it's just for the organizer. And when I'm browsing in iPhoto, all the filenames, creation dates, etc are still indexed...
So, on a slightly different topic, anyone care to tell me what I'd gain from updating iPhoto or going with iLife?
Thanks,
Brian
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