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> No but doing that when iPhoto stores backups of your images is a pain in the arse. In what way? > Yes but that doesn't deal with folders which aren't indexe
by revscat 14y ago
> No but doing that when iPhoto stores backups of your images is a pain in the arse.
In what way?
> Yes but that doesn't deal with folders which aren't indexed. For example if you do an iPhoto import it can lag for a while before Spotlight catches up. Bang - synchronisation problem.
Moving goalposts. First you said the metadata was opaque. It wasn't. Now you're saying there is lag.
What were you trying to do? I do a lot of photography, and while I am no means a pro -- or even a semi-pro -- I have done automator scripts against iPhoto with zero problems. You still haven't said what you were trying to accomplish.
- jychang 14y agoThe problem is, you're moving the goalposts too. "It just works" wouldn't apply if you need to hack together automater script...
- meaty 14y agoPain in the arse because there is no easy eay of determining which was the master. Instead of a hierarchy, you have a hierarchy with a temporal aspect as well poorly mapped to a non temporal hierarchy. The metadata is still not opaque (its not stored with the files making backup/restore hard) and it lags meaning its potentially somewhere between ok and useless at any point in time. Watermark, thumbnail, rename, move to a directory outside iPhoto, run a gallery script. Hell. I ended up with ViewNX which has no abstraction and a python script using PIL instead of automator. Neither of which leverage any advantage that OSX portrays. In fact I could do the same thing on any platform.