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From: isw on 19 Dec 2009 00:09
In article <drache-BBE0DB.18375118122009(a)news.eternal-september.org>,
erilar <drache(a)chibardun.net.invalid> wrote:

> In article <isw-CD1D10.22043217122009@[216.168.3.50]>,
> isw <isw(a)witzend.com> wrote:
>
> > I do agree, but one of the things I'm doing is organizing a *bunch* of
> > old family photos, to pass on to my kids. As long as they have Macs
> > *that support iPhoto*, things will work fine, but *what do you do in a
> > Macless world* - say, towards the end of the kids' lifetimes? Me, I
> > can't think of anything better than giving the image files significant
> > names, and organizing them into folders. It'll be a long, long time
> > before there are no JPEG viewers...
>
> There are already people who either don't have iPhoto or else don't have
> the latest version. I'm one of the latter, as I no longer use it. A
> friend sent me a CD with an iPhoto slide show. I couldn't open it. I
> used another program to pluck out the .jpegs and looked at the fotos
> that way, but I couldn't watch the CD.

My point, exactly. And the same problem shows up if you send the
slideshow to someone who is so unenlightened that they don't use a Mac
8^}

What would work, is to create the slide show, and then convert it to a
Quicktime movie (or an MPEG, or whatever).

Isaac
From: isw on 19 Dec 2009 00:11
In article <drache-C7E256.18323318122009(a)news.eternal-september.org>,
erilar <drache(a)chibardun.net.invalid> wrote:

> In article <jollyroger-204C71.22253317122009(a)news.individual.net>,
> Jolly Roger <jollyroger(a)pobox.com> wrote:
>
> > There's no need to find the file on disk. Open iPhoto, search for the
> > image you want (by name, keywords, date, whatever), then drag it out (or
> > share it via email, etc.). Done deal.
>
> Do all the iPhoto fans NAME their fotos? Mine have numbers assigned by
> my camera.

A lot of my images were from 35mm slides, or old prints. And what is
worse than no names? No metadata. And a dear mother who writes on the
back, the name of every person in the photo, but NO DATE.

Isaac
From: isw on 19 Dec 2009 00:15
In article <drache-69C903.17322518122009(a)news.eternal-september.org>,
erilar <drache(a)chibardun.net.invalid> wrote:

> In article <isw-838A4D.09445618122009@[216.168.3.50]>,
> isw <isw(a)witzend.com> wrote:
>
> > How do you handle files that belong in more than one place? Say, a photo
> > of both Churchill and Roosevelt, when you have folder structures
> > dedicated to both?
>
> Personally, I'd either put it in both or add an alias.

The wonderful advantage to using a true database (and iPhoto, along with
a pile of other Mac apps, runs on SQLite), is that placing an image in
"multiple places" is a whole lot easier than either of those.

Isaac
From: isw on 19 Dec 2009 00:17
In article <drache-EA45FF.17302018122009(a)news.eternal-september.org>,
erilar <drache(a)chibardun.net.invalid> wrote:

> In article <jollyroger-1DC4C3.19324417122009(a)news.individual.net>,
> Jolly Roger <jollyroger(a)pobox.com> wrote:
>
> > How is iPhoto a poor organizer, exactly, in your opinion?
>
> I had to go in sideways to pull out anything I wanted to edit more than
> iPhoto's limited "edit" allowed. Then the files were messed up. This
> may have been improved with later versions, but I abandoned it long ago.

If your photo library is external, that's just not a problem. Find image
in iPhoto, click and select "edit in external editor".

Isaac
From: isw on 19 Dec 2009 00:19
In article <drache-6C85CB.17250918122009(a)news.eternal-september.org>,
erilar <drache(a)chibardun.net.invalid> wrote:

> In article <jollyroger-974D11.22503417122009(a)news.individual.net>,
> Jolly Roger <jollyroger(a)pobox.com> wrote:
>
> > In article <hgemlt$78i$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>,
> > Wes Groleau <Groleau+news(a)FreeShell.org> wrote:
> >
> > > AES wrote:
> > > (in defense of Finder as a better organizer than iTunes or iPhoto)
> > > > The key aspect of my use of a Mac laptop as the core of my personal and
> > > > professional life is precisely a file/folder structure which organizes
> > > > all the varying topics (professional projects, hobbies, interests) in
> > > > which I'm interested -- a structure which I've created myself, so that
> > > > I
> > > > therefore know exactly how its organized.
> > >
> > > I have to agree. iTunes insists that artists have albums and albums
> > > have songs. Want to keep several versions of the same song together?
> > > Nope. Several artists collaborate on an album? Pick ONE.
> >
> > Couldn't you just as well use the Grouping and Composer fields, or
> > playlists, for that?
>
> I do strange things to "genre" so I get different combinations on my
> iPod. Example: I have one playlist labeled "Classical" but within it the
> "genre" specifies violin, piano, flute, cello, etc.

To the best of my ability to figure it out, if your music collection is
nearly all "classical", iTunes is totally incapable of managing it by
itself. I use an external structure of directories and subdirectories
there, too. And it only barely works.

Isaac
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