Jerry Yeager <jerry at browseryshop.com> wrote: <<... I have downloaded and installed iPhoto 2 ... I will let someone else sing the praises or curses ...>>
Curses, curses. I have some photos in iPhoto2, but I cannot bring myself to use it. It takes your photos away from your control, gives them odd filenames, and hides them in a directory structure on the boot drive where it is less easy to back them up. Maybe this is Apple's idea of what camera users have always wanted. But I want old fashioned access and control. I have hundreds of photos, on another partition, in a big folder of their own, organized in subfolders instantly recognizable by date and name (2002-12 Xmas Party, etc.) And each photo is given a recognizable filename (JohnDoe&MaryDoe.jpg). If I took the photo at 1MB for printing, I can go find it and have Elements make a 150Kb copy for emailing. Or I can have Elements batch-process a whole folder of photos down to email size. For some occasions, I save photos in three sizes -- huge for possible 8x10 printing, large for regular printing, and small for emailing or viewing. Iphoto seems to me to be little better than the digital equivalent of a shoebox full of photos. <<...We need to do some housecleaning... Start up the Terminal app ... Type in the following... sudo sh /etc/daily... sudo sh /etc/weekly... sudo sh /etc/monthly...>> This is Unix housekeeping, not related to what Spring Cleaning does. With just one click, free MacJanitor will do the daily, weekly and monthly Unix housekeeping routines, with no Terminal, no typing of Unix code. Allan Atherton | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 28. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
