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bruxxx Author

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After new iphoto upgrade 9.3 under Lion - photos distorted

I can barely express how enraged I get at Apple's incompetence sometimes. This is one of them.

I entrusted my photos to iPhoto, most of them taken with my iPhone.

When I got back to view photos I have not seen for a while I find some percentage of them either

1. Gone, and I get a black screen saying the photo cannot be found, even though the thumbnail was there.

2. Randomly rotated. Some photos are taken rotated and I rotate them to the correct aspect when I upload them to my computer. I go back at some point and these photos are rotated. I rotate them back, and then go back and forth and they get rotated again.

3. The latest one is the aspect ratio of the photo is distorted, like looking through a funhouse mirror ... usually way stretched out horzontally.

Does anyone else have these kinds of problems? The missing and rotated pictures I have always seen a few of, but the distortion is new - immediately after the last upgrade of a day or two ago.

I am pretty sure I am not doing anything wrong but this is really bugging me that I cannot trust Apple with my data, especially photos.

What could explain this ?

iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8), 27" and 24"

Posted on Jun 14, 2012 12:12 AM

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Old Toad

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Jul 24, 2013 2:47 PM in response to bruxxx

Apple never responds to reports via http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphoto.html. If you file a formal bug report you'll get a acknowledgment of receipt but that's about all.

Maybe you should consider an industrial strength DAM (digital asset management) application like Aperture or Media Pro 1. I use MP1 as my primary DAM application and iPhoto for special projects, i.e. books, calendars, slideshows, etc.

MP1 is cross platform, can keep source files on servers and can operate even when the source files are not online or available to a certain degree.

For more about MP1 and other DAM apps visit the The DAM Forum.

After new iphoto upgrade 9.3 under Lion - photos distorted