Existing users, 
Apple iPhoto
Image organizer: makes books, slideshows...
Version: 8.1.1
computer hog
Feedback Type: Commentary
Contributed by: kiddus_i2003 Saturday, March 28 2009 @ 01:24 AM PDT
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: 6-12 months
Recommend Product: NO
I see a lot of people who like iPhoto , I used it for about a year and in that time it took over my computer like a parasite.I have in the vicinty of 150,000 photos.Many transferred from film and slides.It was no easy task trying to catalogue them in iPhoto (took 6 hours a day for about 8 months) , it fought me at every turn , I believe that advances in software should be making things simpler and easier, but this program reminded me why I quit Windows.So out with the eraser and scrubbed iPhoto from system and ended up with a lot of space in which to reload my photos (once again) the new programs (got one for cataloging and one for fixing photos) took up less space than iPhoto and when all was said and done , instead of a program that hogged all my hard drive the new ones used something like 80% less space.To top it off they were half the price of a Mac substitute , offer free upgrades for my lifetime, rate up there with Photoshop and the like, give me the results I require and are easy to use and intuitive.Next step is to rid myself of the other parasites iDVD and iMovie , at last found worthy adversaries to these bloated programs built by ex Microsoft afficianados.
Use of Optical Media - petrologist
We (or I) should like to know what applications you've found useful substitutes for Apple's. (I consider Apple's consistent OOUI very important.)iPhoto I find useful for organization, fitting standard-sized photos onto letter paper, and its cute film canisters. However, I edit & organize the originals before dragging their 'shoot' folders to iPhoto.
Anything that grows forever, I archive onto optical media. This is mounted by *nix read-only, but otherwise similar to a hard disk. Mail is archived, each iMovie project goes on a labeled disc, &c. If needed, I use the freeware
DVD Spanner
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/32730
iPhoto's command line can use different libraries as arguments, as implemented very nicely in this freeware:
iPhoto Buddy
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/20052
My iPhoto libraries are named '2009 spring', '2008 winter', &c, and the display of an early photo from each jogs my memory of which to use.
iPhoto 6 and above will use optical media, though how flexibly it does this only others know. Every application whose data grows indefinitely requires an archive, backup, and collection of optical discs to pop in when needed. I wish MacOSX itself had originally been designed to request an optical disc by name, when needed.
(This opinion you have already considered, I'm sure; but I offer it here, for a similar response to the same problem was censored by Apple on its Board.)
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