I have so many posts about iPhoto in my “saved drafts” area that I figured it is time to get rid of one. This one deals with sharing photos in iPhoto – something that is a fairly painful process still.
In short, if you pull open a remote Library that you’d like to grab a few photos from, and use iPhoto’s built in calendar feature to filter that Library to a specific year/month – you will find it is impossible to drag those photos onto your local Library.
To restore the sharing ability, after having selected 142 photos in my case, I had to disable the calendar feature (by clicking the small X in the calendar) clicking on the main shared Library in the source, reselecting all of the photos I wanted, and dragging them onto my local Library.
Ugh. I might switch to Aperature sooner than later. But not until after I put it through the ringer to be sure that the main problems I’ve had with iPhoto do not exist also in Aperature.
[tags]iphoto, apple, macintosh, software, applications, sharing, bugs[/tags]
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i’ve been using aperture for about a month now and it’s great, but it kind of does other things, like it doesn’t have the nice things iphoto has.. i dont know
I might also switch to Aperture, but not before I get a DSLR and a Mac with a larger display, the 17″ display on this iMac is just too limiting for such an application. 20″ should do me fine.
Glenn: That is also a concern of mine. Typically my use of iPhoto is limited to when I am connected to my external display anyway, but on the off-chance that I am not at home, I’d still like to use Aperature.
That being said, Aperature’s ability to keep thumbnails on the Macbook with all the high-res photos residing on an external drive – is making me want to make the jump early. Unless of course the next version of iPhoto has a similar feature.
What nice iPhoto things is Aperture missing Josue?
Glenn: That is also a concern of mine. Typically my use of iPhoto is limited to when I am connected to my external display anyway, but on the off-chance that I am not at home, I'd still like to use Aperature.
That being said, Aperature's ability to keep thumbnails on the Macbook with all the high-res photos residing on an external drive – is making me want to make the jump early. Unless of course the next version of iPhoto has a similar feature.