I REALLY don't like "photos". With iPhoto I could find collections and groups of photos that I wanted.
Now, I have thousands, many of them duplicates, and not in any organised or logical arrangement. Almost as though they'd just been thrown in a heap, mixed up and dumped back randomly. No time sequence, nothing I can sort out. Is it possible to go back to iPhoto? Andrew Sent from my iPhone > On 11 Feb 2016, at 18:06, Jason Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm going to sound grumpy and reactionary, because I'm being risk-averse. It > doesn't mean I'm wrong though! > > Photos.app is a disaster. I've lost and had duplicated hundreds of photos. > It's only my paranoid set-up that means I think I've retrieved them. I'm in > the middle of moving all my 90gigs of photos and videos to Devonthink Pro, > saved on Dropbox and in Time Machine, and using Photos *only* for photo > stream-like activity. I would go so far as to say if you can't see a problem, > you should look more closely. Because I'm having to effectively recreate the > old iPhoto set-up, tags etc, and check for duplicates and missing photos, > it's taking absolutely forever. > > It's a shame there aren't really any alternatives that do something similar; > as you said Google seems to compress them. I strongly recommend that you keep > an eye on your photos and Photos and ensure you put copies of the really > important ones somewhere else, eg dropbox camera upload (if you clear it out > regularly, but let TM archive them, they're retrievable. Dropbox also dates > them in the name so that helps relocate them later). > > > > > >> On 9 Feb 2016, at 14:09, PHILIP TOMLINSON wrote: >> >> Hi Stephen,Thanks for your advice. I never ticked the option to upload all >> my photos onto iCloud, just the "Photo Stream". I have a lot of photos >> (6,783) and didn't want to pay for extra storage.Actually I can now access >> my photos in "Photos"again but I don't feel that I completely understand >> what's happened. Mac "Photos" seems to work again if "Google Photos" app is >> live on my menu bar. Do you think that the Google app has relocated all the >> files of my photos? If I look at Photos Library on my Mac it shows 37.08 GB >> used.Phil >> >> On Tuesday, 9 February 2016, 13:21, Stephen Watson <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> >> Ooooo errrrrr. >> I'd start by logging into your iCloud account and seeing what photos are in >> there - if they all appear then I'd think that your Photos are safely on >> Apple's servers. If you start photos with the alt/option key down it asks if >> you want to rebuild your Mac Photos library so I suppose you could try that. >> When I used the iCloud Photo Library I loaded up everything from my Mac >> photos onto iCloud, which took about a week. Then switched it on on my iPad >> and I asked if I wanted to merge my pics as I still had some in the iPad's >> camera roll that weren't in iCloud. I said yes to that and they were added >> to the pot and now they're all on iCloud and iPad. >> >> I'm sure others will have sensible suggestions. :-) >> Stephen >> We are Costa of Borg. We will add your vibrancy and distinctiveness to our >> own. Your town and your customers will service us. Resistance is futile. >> >> On 9 Feb 2016, at 11:41, PHILIP TOMLINSON <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> Dear Friends I really need advice.This morning I tried to open “Photos” on >> my iMac and, although its name appears on the menu bar, no screen appears. >> If I click on “photos” in the “window” menu, a screen does appear but it is >> blank and empty. Most of the other menu items are greyed out.Several things >> that I did recemtly may possibly have a bearing on this awful, terrible >> event:-1. I installed “BeetleCam” duplicate cleaner first on my iPad, then >> on my Mac and used it a couple of times. All seemed well. 2. I purchased >> some file space on Google Photos and backed up all of my pictures in Photos >> onto it. It finished backing up yesterday. All seemed well. This morning >> Photos is empty!!!I still have all my pictures in the iOS version of Photos >> on my iPad, thank God, but I worry that if I sync my iPad with my iMac, they >> too will disappear…. All my pictures are available on Google’s “Photos” but >> the quality isn’t as good as on Mac Photos. 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