Terence Devlin wrote:
Now there is no modified folder at all. All processing in iPhoto is virtual, in other words, it's truly lossless.
Sorry, this makes no sense to me. 'Lossless' to me means - e.g. - Photoshop format where there is no compression. The instant JPEG comes into the equation (and most of my pictures in iPhoto are JPEGs), it's 'lossy', not 'lossless'. iPhoto can process both 'lossy' and 'lossless' formats, so I'm not sure what you're saying here, or what 'virtual' means in this instance. The changes are real enough to me, and I can print them off, and - if I do them in iPhoto - I actually see them right there in front of my eyes.
The fact that a file ended up in the Modified folder means nothing, given that you never accessed the Modified folder. You still access your files the same way. Simples.
The fact that pictures are duplicated means I actually DON'T access my files the same way. Plus the fact that I no longer see the changes in iPhoto I've applied in Elements.
For you this is counter-intuitive and unnecessary. They most certainly are the 'same type of app', exactly the same type.
Well, except that Aperture is actually like Lightroom, not iPhoto, and offers a workflow experience that is more akin to Photoshop than iPhoto.
Anyway, enough of arguing the whys and wherefores of what has happened to iPhoto (which from my trawling of the internet, seems to have caused angst far and wide). The main problem now is, how do I get my changes from a folder named b8KWKsN7T22dur56ix0Vvw (no, don't laugh - it really is) into my main iPhoto Library? I tried dragging it in Finder, and accepting the "Picnnnnn already exists, do you want to replace it?" dialogue. Unfortunately, the change still didn't appear in iPhoto even after a relaunch, so I copied the picture back to b8KWKsN7T22dur56ix0Vvw.
Now I can see the changed picture in iPhoto's Library if I use the Finder. However, if I use iPhoto itself, the picture is the unchanged version, and if I click "Edit in iPhoto" it's still the unchanged version, even if I go full screen! Yet the unchanged version is not actually in iPhoto's Library according to the Finder. (Subsequent research: no, actually it IS - it's now in a folder called zSiaLBSfSseQbHCiGU1Uiw (please, STOP laughing đ )
Basically, it is a right old mess. How on earth do I get my changes - which are there - so I can see them in iPhoto? Should I copy the picture from b8KWKsN7T22dur56ix0Vvw and overwrite the version in zSiaLBSfSseQbHCiGU1Uiw using the Finder?