Re: Leopard rant - hard shutdowns all the time

On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:29:50 +0100, Ian McCall <ian@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

<snip bits I seem to get now> ;-)

Whilst I can see that could have a use I can also see it either
creating an event per photo and or confusing content and breaking a
series up etc? So when you do an import and choose event does it still
put that batch in a specific folder or scatter them in a generic
folder (I know you said you can choose / create the folder manually
but I think this is just for Album mode)?

In practice I've found the event creation to work very well, but yes
there's the odd occasion where I need to manually tweak its idea of an
event. Rarely too many events, sometimes it lumps ones together that I
wouldn't have done.

Ok.

For organising your most recent additions there's always the Last
Import folder - click on that and everything you just copied over
appears.

Ok ..

As for where the files go - I don't know. This is a key difference
between OS X's approach and Windows - at the file level, I've no idea
what happens to them. I can always get to them by right-click, Show
File, but on the whole I explicitly don't care. OS X is primarily a
task-based interface, not a file-based one. Hence the iPhoto database,
the iTunes database etc. - you -can- look at them at the file level,
but it's not the preferred mechanism.

<Shivver>. I really really dislike the iTunes way of doing things ...
the way it (given the chance) tries to go round yer PC gathering up
all your music and sticking it in it's idea of what the folders should
be (and probably another reason (if one were needed) why I don't like
the iPod synch thing). I know you can then create a playlist from what
it's found but I'd rather do that myself in the first place (but then
I don't listen to music so what would I know (or care)) ;-)

I use a mixture - photos and music just get shared out with iPhoto /
iTunes, but films and TV programmes I organise by file because I keep
them on external media and so care where they are. Most of them time
though, I'm happy to forget the file level.

;-)

I forget it at file level because I don't see it that way. I just put
my stuff where I want it and know where to go to get it back again? It
would be the same (to me) as putting all your engineering tools in the
same box and relying on some automated indexing system to recover them
for you. Ok till you just want to grab or share a particular set? I
don't even use the supplied My Documents / Photos folders. ;-)

Maybe it's about being in control for us (we all work the same way
here, as do most of my PC using friends and PC/Mac using Wife, not
letting some sort of AI try to manage our lives?) ;-)

All the best ..

T i m
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