GregsonS

Q: Letter to Apple - please give us our webjournals back!

Dear apple,

 

I'm working for over two years on a webjournal documenting the birth and growup of my little daughter.

After the update to iOS8 on my ipad suddenly I lost all of my work of 2 years - iPhoto is not working under iOS8 without warning!

Are you serious about what you are doing to me and all other webjournal-users in the world? You have a responsibility to preserve and protect our work, because we TRUSTED in apple!

You left us alone without any help, support, warning or the chance to save our work to another place or format.

It's not the whole story to just export all the images out of the webjournal but it's also about the design, the text, the metadata...

What will we loose next?

Please advice for a working and future-proof solution.

 

i hope Apple will respond at least here.

regards,

Gregor

iPad, iOS 8

Posted on Oct 7, 2014 1:34 PM

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  • by GregsonS,

    GregsonS GregsonS Oct 7, 2014 2:27 PM in response to Carolyn Samit
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    Oct 7, 2014 2:27 PM in response to Carolyn Samit

    Again.... Please keep in mind that we are talking about iOS 8.

    iPhoto does not work under iOS 8 anymore.

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Oct 7, 2014 2:44 PM in response to Carolyn Samit
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    Oct 7, 2014 2:44 PM in response to Carolyn Samit

    Using iCloud as suggested in the link I posted previously  iPhoto for iOS (iPad): Share your web journal as a webpage

    This used to work well in iOS 7. But we are stumped, because we cannot even launch iPhoto at all in iOS 8, so there is no way to publish the journal.

    If iPhoto  does launch on your iPad and iPhone, what iPhoto version do you have? I have iPhoto 2.0.1 installed. And what are your settings? On my iPhone and iPad is iCloud Drive enabled.

    Apple's Support Document says: Migrating from iPhoto for iOS to Photos on iOS 8

    Migrating from iPhoto for iOS to Photos on iOS 8

    iPhoto for iOS is not supported on devices with iOS 8 or later. This article will explain how to migrate your iPhoto data to Photos.  ......

  • by mrwahed,

    mrwahed mrwahed Oct 13, 2014 6:34 PM in response to GregsonS
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    Oct 13, 2014 6:34 PM in response to GregsonS

    Here is a better option that I found that works for me. This option is for Mac or PC and not IOS. You need a Google+ account, PC or Mac and Google drive. Download http://picasa.google.com photo manager/editor

     

    Launch Picasa and let it scan your picture folders.When it is done from the list of your photos upload selected photos you wish to use for web journal to  to Picasa web album. You will need to enter your gmail or google+ login info. Using your browser login to Picasa web albums and you will have the option to create and share web journal style slide show, movie or blog post with text and multimedia (photos or movies). When ready you can keep your journals private or share it with friends or public. I switch to Picasa web albums today and I love it. not sure if links are allowed here but here couple of screenshots:

    Screen Shot 2014-10-13 at 6.29.23 PM.pngScreen Shot 2014-10-13 at 6.33.22 PM.png

  • by GregsonS,

    GregsonS GregsonS Dec 16, 2014 8:31 PM in response to mrwahed
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    Dec 16, 2014 8:31 PM in response to mrwahed

    Hi,

    this may help for solving future problems, but not for the current.

    I want to use and continue my webjournal with the hundreds of photos and the metadata I entered in there during 2 years.

     

    regards,

    Gregor

     

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  • by wolibien,

    wolibien wolibien Oct 15, 2014 10:07 AM in response to Carolyn Samit
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    Oct 15, 2014 10:07 AM in response to Carolyn Samit

    Since iPhoto does no longer exist, your proposed solution is no longer viable. We have lost the web journal function.

  • by wolibien,

    wolibien wolibien Oct 15, 2014 10:11 AM in response to GregsonS
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    Oct 15, 2014 10:11 AM in response to GregsonS

    Have you tried to go back to iOS 7 ? I do not know whether it is feasible, but I once went back from Mavericks to the Cat.

  • by wolibien,

    wolibien wolibien Oct 15, 2014 10:16 AM in response to GregsonS
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    Oct 15, 2014 10:16 AM in response to GregsonS

    This is an enormous breach of trust by Apple. How, indeed, can we be expect Apple to simply cease other icloud functions ? I, for my part, will certainly draw consequences and not store anything in it. There are plenty of alternatives.

    For the future this could be interesting as a replacement for the webjournals:

    https://www.storehouse.co

  • by wolibien,

    wolibien wolibien Oct 15, 2014 10:18 AM in response to GregsonS
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    Oct 15, 2014 10:18 AM in response to GregsonS

    Have you sent a link to the journal(s) to someone ? Those still work.

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Oct 15, 2014 10:24 AM in response to wolibien
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    Oct 15, 2014 10:24 AM in response to wolibien
    Have you tried to go back to iOS 7 ? I do not know whether it is feasible, but I once went back from Mavericks to the Cat.

    You can downgrade a mac to an earlier system, if you have a full Time Machine backup of the older version or a bootable clone, but Apple does not support downgrading mobile devices to an earlier iOS version.

  • by yy4me,

    yy4me yy4me Jun 26, 2015 1:26 PM in response to wolibien
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    Jun 26, 2015 1:26 PM in response to wolibien

    For anyone looking for something similar to the web journal functionality of iPhoto, Microsoft Sway on the iPad is the closest thing I've found. It does not have the granularity of control over photo layout but there are several reasonable templates that include animations web journals did not have.  Text and URLs can be added to. Final designs can be shared via a simplie web link.

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