Latest update does not impress

Add to that that you can no longer see at a glimpse how far the sync of the online albums has advanced. You have to go to the rudimentary activity window now to be able to tell whether you can put the computer to sleep/leave Starbucks/turn off WiFi etc. now. Apart from that, online albums still randomly rearrange themselves to a manual order instead of order by date, unless you sync it back and forth about 10 times. It's really, really unimpressive and needs work asap!

I have to pick up this topic again, it is so utterly frustrating. The Sync function of Aperture with Flickr really is a piece of junk. Not only does it take ages to synchronize even the smallest changes to a given album (and consumes heaps of data traffic, what does it do? Send my entire harddisk to Flickr?) it also still doesn't respect the order I put things in in Aperture. The outcome on the other end of the pipe may be something completely random, or the actual order I put it in. No way of telling why it does this or that, it's so frustrating I am willing to stop using Aperture and Flickr in combination altogether. How hard can it be to just upload the pics in the order they were put and tell Flickr to keep it that way? Why would I be forced to use a 32bit third party upload plugin to do the simplest task on the internet, uploading files to a server?

I can do that with a 30 year old ftp protocol, but not with the latest version of Aperture and Mac OS X? Am I the only one who finds this ironic, coming from the company that has written user friendlyness all over its flags?

Can we please have an update that finally adresses these issues?

Some more chagrin here: I've been traveling in NZ and AU for the past two months. Down under is beautiful but they're very backwards with their internet. It is almost never free and always traffic limited. The rates for paid internet on the go are horrific too, as much as 99$ for 1GB of traffic. Uploading pictures therefore is a very difficult business. Now with the Aperture-Flickr Sync though, it keeps downloading seemingly random stuff into the iLifeAssetManagement folder instead of uploading the new pics in a given album. So before i have uploaded a single picture, I made already have exceeded my traffic limit of 50 or even 500mb.

What does iLifeAssetManagement do and why is it filling a hidden folder in my user Library with as much as 100% the size of my Aperture Library (some 60GB of data). I'm on a 11" MBA with 180GB SSD, I can't afford to have a useless folder take away half my disk space, wasting my traffic limits and delaying my Flickr updates by literally hours.

Can someone explain what's going on here?

I had photostream turned off in Aperture on the MBA and it was on on the iPhone. But that would have explained only a couple of mb from the view pics I took with the iPhone. Instead it dumped a whole lot of really old pics in my Aperture trash. It doesn't make any sense, pics more than half a year old surfaced in my trash today although I clean it regularly. They're not on the iPhone either, at least not to my knowledge. I mistrust this whole cloud business immensely, as it is utterly intransparent. We have no idea what data is being moved where.

So what gives? I connect an iPhone and the MBA to a free WiFi and end up getting 450MB of old Photostream pics on my MBA that has Photostream turned off officially? It's not even the pics that were in the photostream on the iPhone, it must have pulled them out of the cloud, from 7 months ago. What happened to "last 1000 pics"?

I have also still no idea why the mentioned folder bloated up to 65gb when I first noticed I was running out of space. I have no turned off Photostream again on both devices and have no plans on ever turning it on again. I hope the folder stays empty now and my traffic is not being wasted on pics that are so old they're not even in my library anymore.

I'm really disappointed with the software experience I've had lately with Apple products. Abnd that from an adamant Apple fan since 1995...

That would make sense if I had recently updated Aperture or even OS X. But without free unlimitd wifi here in the backwaters I had to put this off. There's hoping updating will fix the bloody issues for good. I bet Steve is rolling over in his grave, seeing how people have to turn features off in order to be able to work.

I resurrected this thread from when the second last update arrived, back in June. Was not trying to mislead anyone, plus the original points still apply to 3.4., too.