Comment from Mac Carter
Nice article. Hits on a lot of the frustrating, confusing aspects of Photos. This re-importing imports thing is a real pain. It happens constantly, but not on 100% of my iPhone photos or videos. And,...
View ArticleComment from Rob
While I agree with much of this, it's kind of late for a review of Photos/Yosemite since Photos/El Capitan is already in beta.Is TidBits not allowed to comment on specifics in the beta? For example,...
View ArticleComment from Tommy Friedmann
I haven't converted to Photos. Am running 10.10.5When I try to launch iPhoto it says I need to upgrade and takes me to the app store. There I am told the update doesn't exist. In the Application Folder...
View ArticleComment from doc
Imagine you live with a dog. It's not a great dog, but you're used to it and like it a bit. But somebody else owns it. One day the owner walks in, shoots the dog dead, and gives you another dog. It's...
View ArticleComment from Dave Kitabjian
Gavin, I feel your frustration, and that's why I wrote this article.Now, over the years I have managed a number of software applications that, due to various reasons, had to be largely rebuilt from...
View ArticleComment from Dave Kitabjian
Thanks for your compliment and for your interesting observation about Photo Stream not being the culprit. It's interesting that, while my bug report about the bursts has resulted in quite a bit of back...
View ArticleComment from Dave Kitabjian
I held off on "upgrading" (and I do use the term reluctantly) from iPhoto to Photos because I didn't see any worthy new features, and I wanted to let Apple work out its bugs.The only reason I have...
View ArticleComment from Dave Kitabjian
"Woof" back at ya.However, in iPhoto, you can export the original via:1) Find->Export...2) Kind = Originaland a quick test confirms that date/time and geolocation data (and other EXIF data) is...
View ArticleComment from Tommy Friedmann
Yeah, but I can't launch iPhoto. It says, "upgrade to a newer version", takes me to the app store and there it says the apo I am looking for is not available.
View ArticleComment from Dave Kitabjian
Hmm, strange. Are you running iPhoto 9.6 or 9.6.1? Maybe the latter is required to move to Photos?But since iPhoto is no longer in the App Store, I'm not sure what to suggest there. Maybe someone else...
View ArticleComment from Michael O'Connell
Dave: Thanks for the fine article on Photos shortcomings. I also have a problem with sorting. In iPhoto you could sort pictures by date either ascending or descending. I like my new photos to come in...
View ArticleComment from Tommy Friedmann
Went ti the app store, selected "purchased" found iPhoto, installed it and now can run it!
View ArticleComment from Dave Kitabjian
Great!! Yes, I also saw it listed under Purchased, but I figured that's what I already had. Perhaps your installation was corrupted? Good luck!
View ArticleComment from Dave Kitabjian
Thanks for the note, Michael!Yes, I also like my new pix on top, and that doesn't seem to be an option in Photos. It wouldn't matter so much if Photos didn't frequently default me back to the "top" of...
View ArticleComment from Benjamin Lowengard
I love all the ideas behind Photos: Photostream, Collections, a photocloud. I wish it would work consistently across all iCloud devices (including a web interface) and wasn't an additional expense....
View ArticleComment from Adam Engst
Technically speaking, no one is allowed to talk about the betas, but absolutely everyone violates the NDA. We tend not to much, in part because of the NDA, but more because writing about pre-release...
View ArticleComment from Murray Miller
is there a third party program that can do what iPhotos did- events, face recognition, etc, etc?
View ArticleComment from John Beare
For my purposes the biggest feature lacking in Photos is the ability to sort photographs by file name. I'm surprised that lack of this feature is not mentioned. I inevidably want to reorder any group...
View ArticleComment from Lance Rosenthal
My biggest issue is one mentioned parenthetically above. There is no progress bar so I can see how an import is doing. In fact, you can't tell what is happening in the background.
View ArticleComment from Dave Kitabjian
Okay, I received this reply today. So hopefully a solution is a few weeks away:"Hi Dave,This is a follow-up regarding Bug ID# 21914014. Thank you for contacting us.Please check this issue when OS X...
View ArticleComment from Dave Kitabjian
Well, Photos does have face recognition; but like iPhoto's, it's just not very good.As for Events, they were really a lot like Albums, with two key distinctions:1) While a photo can live in multiple...
View ArticleComment from Dave Kitabjian
Hey John, thanks for your note.In Photos, if you select some photos then do File->New Album..., it will put them into an album. Then if you go and select the Album, you can drag to re-order the...
View ArticleComment from Dave Kitabjian
On larger imports, Photos provides a "progress circle" up in the window title bar, although it's hard to spot. If you click on it, it provides more detail:http://pasteboard.co/9KpOdYo.png
View ArticleComment from Dave Kitabjian
I will add that when the next Photos comes out, I will be eager to see what improvements lie within and report back to you!
View ArticleComment from David Friedholm
General comment as I consider moving to Photos and found myself having to reboot from an older external HD with Mountain Lion installed. I was struck by the richness and beauty of the interface, icons,...
View ArticleComment from Dave Kitabjian
Perhaps Apple tired of hearing me complain about the out-of-line iCloud pricing, as they are lowering their prices! ;-) Read more here: http://tidbits.com/article/15920(although they're not effective...
View ArticleComment from Dave Kitabjian
One update regarding my topic about "Recent Imports"...It seems there is solution that appears to meet most of my needs.While we didn't cover this in the article, you may have noticed that besides the...
View ArticleComment from Dave Kitabjian
Hi again folks,I had opened a ticket with Apple regarding the loss of multiple Facebook account support not only in Photos but in Yosemite in general, trying to justify the use case as eloquently yet...
View ArticleComment from Dave Kitabjian
Follow-Up regarding the uncontrollable accumulation of photos in the Camera Roll...As you probably noticed, the El Capitan Photos has not fixed this problem (although it has pleasantly addressed some...
View ArticleComment from Dave Kitabjian
A comment on reliability...Having used Photos for some time now, including several crashes of Photos, a few power outages, and several OS X crashes, I'm pleased with how well Photos has recovered.I had...
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