iPhoto 6: First Impressions

Ok, first off, the post is wrong about folder structure. iPhoto does NOT organize by album name, but ROLL NAME. Album name would be useful. Roll name is worthless.

In any case, can someone please explain what was wrong with organizing the folders by date? That made a lot of sense. All photos have a date. Not all photos go in an album. On top of that, it makes sense to look for your pictures based on when you took them. Looking for pictures based on what you decided 3 months ago was a good place to throw them ("Hmm...Did I stick that picture of Timmy two hours after his birthday party in the "Timmy's Birthday", or "Timmy Age 5" album?") is rediculous.

I'm hoping this is a display bug and not related to actually altering dates, but dates of photos are completely screwed up.

With the resorting of photos into rolls, the calendar seems to show dates properly, but if you get info, I'm seeing dates like 12/2005/2005 instead of 12/09/05 when the picture was actually taken.

I also made the mistake of importing a backed up library of photos (moving data from my desktop to my laptop); I now have something like 20 "Original" folders which I believe are duplicate photos...

I've also noticed that "Revert to Original" is always enabled, regardless if you've made a modification or not; likewise, selecting that option will bring up the "Are you sure?" dialog box regardless if you've made a modification or not which is really annoying.

Just upgraded to iPhoto 6 from 5 and while performance on my PB12/1ghz is vastly improved and I love the new features (and bugfixes), I've also noticed that reveal in Finder is always greyed out which kind of bugs me because I can't quickly jump to it in the Finder. This is especially true now because they've reworked the file/folder hierarchy so that in the Finder, the photos are no longer sorted by date (which was most logical, in my opinion...).

At least they've fixed that really annoying bug in 5 when double-clicking on a photo to view and returning to thumbnail view, the whole line of pictures used to jump up to the top row. Now the row stays put and that photo you saw out of the corner of your eye is still where you think it is.

Scrolling by the menu bar is not as smooth as it could be; rather than a nice smooth slide, it's a bit jumpy as thumbnails are rendered.

The folder organization of the new iphoto is also maddening. Since originals are kept in one place and modifed versions in a whole other directory it is not simple to go find the picture that is the correct one you are looking at in the app. You would have to remember if you modified it or not. I wrote a little applescript that reveals the actual path though as a workaround.

My photos in iPhoto colonizes about 75% of my usuable HD space, and the odd bit of Spring cleaning here and there doesn't make much of a dent in that...

As well as being quicker is there any feature that provides more efficient storage of photos in terms of disk space? (iView claim this as a feature).

Hmm... this things doesn't take proper html links. Here's the plain text URL for the above (35) comment: http://www.timbru.com/jurnal/2005/Nov/iphoto_bug_exposure_increase_removes_dark_levels

Thank again.

David, could you please check for me if this was fixed?

iPhoto Bug: Exposure increase removes dark levels

Thanks!

"I like the old way photos are stored by date - after all you use the iPhoto program to organise the files by albums, THATS THE WHOLE POINT of iPHOTO."

I couldn't agree more.

"If you want to copy a selection into a single folder use the EXPORT command - which also gives you the option of using the title as the filename during export (for #17 ChillyWilly)"

Alternatively, you can just drag the picture(s) directly from iPhoto to your desired destination.

Is the iPod Photo Cache folder still really big?


(Maybe this hasn't to do with iPhoto)