iPhoto for DxO users
I have just imported 282 images of my son's wedding fro a DVD supplied by a very bad photographer for the simple reason that iPhoto was the only application that could access the DVD. I have also on a previous occasion had cause to import from a Leica instead of my Nikon & again iPhoto did. So great, and justifies its space on the box. Its also extremely good for creating photo-animations, unfortunately it seems impossible to run them from a PC or send them around ones friends.(v7.1.5, the last free one)
Wanting to delete about 200 of the above photos so they are not clogging up disk space, I asked the question "where does iPhoto store its files" and read most of that horrendous 12 page discussion thread and after a little head-scratching went back to 'DxO pro' the photo-editing prog I now use nearly exclusively; it is the intuitive sort of thing mac used to be and to which photoshop is the ultimate antithesis, as are most of the manouevres suggested in that discussion thread.
If anyone else uses it, I can confirm that the organise section accesses the iPhoto library and the delete button works fine! And of course its easy enough to edit the borderline ones that are editable in passing.
Macbook pro 15, Mac OS X (10.6.8), 4GB RAM 2.4GHz