Geoffreylubbock

Q: Is Photos for mac going to be improved?


I transferred most of my photos from IPhoto to Photos.

IPhoto worked very well with batch changes of names places etc

Also I could find photos by location, date etc

You cannot sort photos by date (except date entered in the system and I have thousands of photos scanned from years ago)

You cannot get photos by location so you cannot find photos easily like you could in Iphoto

Whoever introduced photos is totally incompetent

Is it being fixed or should I migrate everything back to Iphoto or should I find another system - either on mac or PC

Thanks

Geoff Lubbock

Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.2)

Posted on May 1, 2016 3:14 PM

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  • by aardvark arts,

    aardvark arts aardvark arts May 8, 2016 12:47 PM in response to LarryHN
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    May 8, 2016 12:47 PM in response to LarryHN

    They expect you to learn how to organize your photos they way THEY want you do so. iPhotos allowed me to sort them in a manner that made sense to ME! Please, for the love of God, put some of the functionality that existed in iPhoto back into the PHOTOS app and quit "improving" things all the time.

  • by aardvark arts,

    aardvark arts aardvark arts May 8, 2016 12:55 PM in response to Old Toad
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    May 8, 2016 12:55 PM in response to Old Toad

    There is nothing broken, but the Photos app is a poor excuse for a replacement of iPhoto. My opinion is based on my needs and experience. The Photos app doesn't allow me to readily organize my photos with the simplicity that iPhotos did. I don't like software that is so poorly designed that it requires you to do three or four things to obtain the same results that its predecessor did in one. I am also not a big fan of hidden features that require frequent visits to forums in order to discover the secrets to effectively using the software. If that was what I wanted, I would have bought a Windoze® POS.

  • by LarryHN,

    LarryHN LarryHN May 8, 2016 12:58 PM in response to aardvark arts
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    May 8, 2016 12:58 PM in response to aardvark arts

    Sorry - "they" are not here - only users just exactly like you are here and non of us changed anything or can change anything

     

    Photos is a free program which you can use or not - if it does not do what you what then you most certainly should not use it and should instead sue a program that does do what you want - using a program that you do not like is foolish at best

     

     

     

    LN

     

    PS - Photos has much more functionality than iPhoto and most people who have bothered to learn it greatly prefer Photos to iPhoto  - it is missing a few things and some things are different causing you to actually have to learn to use them

     

    for help is the differences see Photos 2.0 vs iPhoto 9.6.1:  Features and Capabilities

  • by kroes,

    kroes kroes May 8, 2016 1:18 PM in response to LarryHN
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    May 8, 2016 1:18 PM in response to LarryHN

    If that does not work see this article  --  If Share options or Markup is missing after upgrading to OS X Yosemite or El Capitan - Apple Support

     

    Thanks Larry HN...It was missing and the terminal add did the trick. Mail is there now.

     

    Thanks again!!!

  • by LarryHN,

    LarryHN LarryHN May 8, 2016 1:59 PM in response to kroes
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    May 8, 2016 1:59 PM in response to kroes

    You are welcome

     

    LN

  • by aardvark arts,

    aardvark arts aardvark arts May 8, 2016 3:17 PM in response to LarryHN
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    May 8, 2016 3:17 PM in response to LarryHN

    PHOTOS is not a free program. I bought a computer with software as a total package. Without the included software, the iMac should have cost me about 1/3rd of what I paid. I expect that when I pay more for a newer version of a product that it perform better than the cheaper, older version. That expectation stands for the software that I purchased as well.

  • by LarryHN,

    LarryHN LarryHN May 8, 2016 4:02 PM in response to aardvark arts
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    May 8, 2016 4:02 PM in response to aardvark arts

    PHOTOS is not a free program.

    Ok - what exactly is the price for Photos?  It is free and included on all new Macs and with all free OS upgrades  -- I have Photos as do millions of people and have never paid one cent for it - it is absolutely free to all El Captain (and Yosemite) users

     

    as to expectations for software - what ever - if you think that you can sit at home and think up a set of "software expectations" adn then that any one is obligated to meet your "expectation" then you have a long life of disappointments ahead of you - that is not the way the world works nor is it even reasonable - your reasonable expectations for software whether free or purchased can only be what the vendor promises - not what you imagine them to be

     

     

    Good Luck

     

    LN

  • by Old Toad,

    Old Toad Old Toad May 9, 2016 8:49 AM in response to aardvark arts
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    May 9, 2016 8:49 AM in response to aardvark arts

    You're not locked in to using Photos.  There are many DAM (digital asset management) apps out there and one is sure to operate the way you want.  I use Media Pro 1  as my primary DAM and Photos for special projects like books, calendars, etc.

     

    A good site to start looking is  The DAM Forum.

     

    Have you read this user tip: Moments in Photos are the New Events

     

    And Photos is free.  It's bundled with El Captian on new computers and is free for all earlier Macs that can run it. 

  • by aardvark arts,

    aardvark arts aardvark arts May 9, 2016 3:16 PM in response to LarryHN
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    May 9, 2016 3:16 PM in response to LarryHN

    Larry, do you now, or have you ever, worked for Apple? If not, what, exactly, is your relationship with them?

    You obviously ignored, or were incapable of comprehending, my comments above. I used to develop commercial software for Olivetti. If I produced something as poorly executed as the PHOTOS app is, I would have been fired.

    Would you purchase a car if the engine, transmission, tires and such were thrown in for "free" even if you found out that they were poorly designed? Would you be pleased to find that the "extras" such as the radio, air-conditioning, electric windows, etc., were given to you for "free" but failed to function after you used them two or three times? Obviously, if it was an Apple car ... you would.

  • by LarryHN,

    LarryHN LarryHN May 9, 2016 3:38 PM in response to aardvark arts
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    May 9, 2016 3:38 PM in response to aardvark arts

    You are amazing - what you are missing it that Photos workes great and most people like it better than iPhoto - you do not but that does not make it a bad program - it simply means you need to use a different program  --  that and you love to argue

    I used to develop commercial software for Olivetti.

    No wonder they are long gone

     

    LN

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