Glad I’m not the only one who’s had the problem of photos going missing. Unfortunately, I can’t find the answer for what might be causing it at present.
I’m surprised that the Apple Store guru suggested that iPhoto couldn’t handle all the editing and that you should switch to something else! Not much of a recommendation for iPhoto. I’m sure I’ve read on a forum somewhere that iPhoto should be able to handle over 250,000 images, but, of course, I’m now unable to trace which one.
I have over 20,000 images to load and they are mainly holiday photos. The early ones (1970’s onwards) were prints or negatives which were scanned in, and they are all in individual folders in date order. Not just because of the problem we seem to having, I now have no intention of deleting these images, even if they do result in me using twice the space on my hard drive. They are backed up in Time Machine and on a separate external hard drive – so I could end up with four copies of each! They are too precious to me to risk losing them.
As well as holiday photos, I have a fair number of others including family photos, some of which are historic as I have been undertaking family history research over the last five or six years, but that’s another story.
I, also, like the look of iPhoto and the sound of what it appears to be able to do by way of photo management. I had considered using Aperture but thought I would start with iPhoto on the basis that I understand you can upgrade to Aperture at a later date if it proved necessary. I, also, understand that, with the latest versions, they use the same library.
The following sites make interesting reading if nothing else, but the one thing that does come out is that, should you decide to access your iPhoto library, do NOT tinker with it in any way as, to do so, will cause untold problems with iPhoto itself:
http://www.steves-digicams.com/knowledge-center/how-tos/photo-software/common-ip hoto-problems-and-how-to-solve-them.html#b
http://www.addictivetips.com/mac-os/8-useful-iphoto-tips-you-probably-dont-know- about-mac-os-x/
http://www.macgurulounge.com/answer-iphoto-startup-woes-crashes/
I am assuming that, like me, you have your photos stored elsewhere other than in iPhoto since you mention you ‘lost’ some photos – was it just that they did not appear in Events once the app had crashed?
From a personal point of view, I still intend to use iPhoto but in a cautious way. By that I mean that I will import one folder (i.e. holiday) at a time, and then work on, say, 100 images (description and keywords, possibly with some image adjustment) before clicking ‘Events’ at the top of the left hand pane to take me back to the window showing all the various Events’ icons. I will then double click the Event I was working on to process another 100 images.
I look to do this as I am not aware of any way to ‘save’ as you would if working, say, on a document or spreadsheet. iPhoto probably saves as it goes along, I don’t know.
But it does make you wary of the app, and, for something purchased under the Apple banner, it is not something you expect to have to contend with. I just hope it doesn’t happen again.
Richard
