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Re: iPhoto 11 upgrade problems

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And as expected, Mr. Gruber downplays this terrible, terrible bug.

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/10/25/castro-iphone

If Microsoft (or Adobe) released an update to the software which wiped out data as precious as your personal photos, I am sure he would not talk about backups, but thrash the company.

Re: iPhoto 11 upgrade problems

#6

And as expected, Mr. Gruber downplays this terrible, terrible bug. http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/10/25/castro-iphone If Microsoft (or Adobe) released an update to the software which wiped out data as precious as your personal photos, I am sure he would not talk about backups, but thrash the company.

I upgraded my 30gb photo album to iphoto '11 yesterday w/o any issues at all

Re: iPhoto 11 upgrade problems

#7

And as expected, Mr. Gruber downplays this terrible, terrible bug. http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/10/25/castro-iphone If Microsoft (or Adobe) released an update to the software which wiped out data as precious as your personal photos, I am sure he would not talk about backups, but thrash the company.

I upgraded two libraries to iPhoto 11 without a single issue. One was 40,000 pictures and the other was 5,000.

Re: iPhoto 11 upgrade problems

#8

And as expected, Mr. Gruber downplays this terrible, terrible bug. http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/10/25/castro-iphone If Microsoft (or Adobe) released an update to the software which wiped out data as precious as your personal photos, I am sure he would not talk about backups, but thrash the company.

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Re: iPhoto 11 upgrade problems

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And as expected, Mr. Gruber downplays this terrible, terrible bug. http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/10/25/castro-iphone If Microsoft (or Adobe) released an update to the software which wiped out data as precious as your personal photos, I am sure he would not talk about backups, but thrash the company.

I upgraded my 30gb photo album to iphoto '11 yesterday w/o any issues at all

I am sure there are cases where upgrade didn't cause any issue. That doesn't mean all these other reports are invalid.

In fact, I was going to make another comment asking about how can bug like this happen. I am sure that Apple QA team tested the upgrade functionality and they didn't find it. I am really finding it hard to imagine what kind of corner case the code ran into, which caused deletion of precious data.

EDIT: Wow. This is interesting. So one person could upgrade w/o issues and that's why my comment which points out that there are other VALID, repeatable instances where upgrade did not go smooth gets downvotes. That's funny.

Re: iPhoto 11 upgrade problems

#10

And as expected, Mr. Gruber downplays this terrible, terrible bug. http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/10/25/castro-iphone If Microsoft (or Adobe) released an update to the software which wiped out data as precious as your personal photos, I am sure he would not talk about backups, but thrash the company.

Seriously, you can't take a Mac advocate's casual blog post, post it here yourself, and then argue that it isn't fair and balanced enough. It is not Jon Gruber's job to shout from the rooftops when things go wrong with Apple products.

And chances are, if it is a real problem, there will be a starred long-form blog post forthcoming from Gruber describing it in more detail.

This is among the more tiresome recurring complaints on HN. "Gruber is biased". Shocking! Next you'll tell me John Nack really isn't critical enough about Adobe! Can we give this a rest?

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