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Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by mort96 »

soperj wrote: post #170
myshkin5 wrote: post #117

I’m a fan of the whole Apple ecosystem but I have to say that there’s a pattern here. Apple does a decent job of keeping my data safe from others but a terrible job of keeping it intact. From music libraries with song titles that got switched to long integers to this (and I’m sure more that I’m not remembering atm) they need to do a better job here. Sure security is important but integrity is too.

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That's unfortunate, but your passwords should be such that it would take an attacker millions of years to guess the password through HTTP requests.

Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by potatoproduct »

myshkin5 wrote: post #117

I’m a fan of the whole Apple ecosystem but I have to say that there’s a pattern here. Apple does a decent job of keeping my data safe from others but a terrible job of keeping it intact. From music libraries with song titles that got switched to long integers to this (and I’m sure more that I’m not remembering atm) they need to do a better job here. Sure security is important but integrity is too.

I got burned by Apple purposely corrupting my music library. I'm still salty about it.

Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by bee_rider »

soperj wrote: post #170
myshkin5 wrote: post #117

I’m a fan of the whole Apple ecosystem but I have to say that there’s a pattern here. Apple does a decent job of keeping my data safe from others but a terrible job of keeping it intact. From music libraries with song titles that got switched to long integers to this (and I’m sure more that I’m not remembering atm) they need to do a better job here. Sure security is important but integrity is too.

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That was a pretty big screw-up. But, it was more than a decade ago.

Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by PaulHoule »

turnsout wrote: post #111
strunz wrote: post #54

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Have you tried copying the files to the local disk before importing?

This is what I always do. Rather than go directly from the card reader or camera into Photos or Lightroom, I copy the files onto an SSD, and then bring them in from the SSD. The entire process goes faster. I also want to point out that I've seen similar corruption in the past, only in Lightroom. The culprit ended up being hardware, not software. Specifically, the card reader's USB cable. I've actually had two of thes…

I haven't had actual corruption but had imports take an excessive long time or fail to complete in Lightroom because of bad USB cables or (I think) bad USB jack.

Generally I'm frustrated with the state of USB. Bad cables are all over the place and I'm inclined to throw cables out if I have the slightest problem with them. My take is that the import process with Lightroom is fast and reliable if I am using good readers and good cables; it is fine importing photos from my Sony a7iv off a CFExpress card but my Sony a7ii has always been problematic and benefits greatly from taking the memory card out and putting it in a dedicated reader, sometimes I use the second slot in the a7iv.

Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by throwaway31131 »

ryandrake wrote: post #136
JKCalhoun wrote: post #120

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I worked on the Photos team a decade ago — some of what you're saying I can vouch for. If it is a rare occurrence, that lowers the priority of the bug. Data corruption though? That moves it to the top. I'll tell you a secret though that kind of pisses me off. If you have shipped with a bug, that automatically lowers the perceived priority as well. You know, as opposed to introducing a new bug in a new release. "We've…

> I'll tell you a secret though that kind of pisses me off. If you have shipped with a bug, that automatically lowers the perceived priority as well. You know, as opposed to introducing a new bug in a new release. This mentality is all over BigTech: This bug didn't block release X-1, why should it block release X? So, it inevitably just sits in the backlog forever. If your releases are 90 days apart, any bug found ha…

If you have more bugs than you can fix in a given amount of time then you have to prioritize somehow.

“This bug didn't block release X-1, why should it block release X?” Is actually a pretty strong argument and tough, but not impossible, to counter.

And the bug backlog only gets longer with time. It’s the price of greatly increased software complexity.

Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by sylos »

jm4 wrote: post #178
ffsm8 wrote: post #175

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They were also active participants in prism... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM What they actually do is a moderate effort to keep app developers from accessing user data. Which is definitely good! Though the reason for this likely more about keeping the customer relationship with apple then actually protecting the privacy of users, but it's a nicely marketable side effect - and that's definitely a good thing fo…

Anybody who was anybody back then was an active participant in PRISM. There are no good guys and bad guys when it comes to that. There are businesses that get to keep doing business by doing what the government tells them to do, there are ones that shut down (Lavabit), and there are ones that don't have enough going on to be on the radar for a project like PRISM.

I think that just makes them all bad guys? Just because everybody was doing it doesn't make it ok, let alone when it's something as bad as prism.

Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by puglr »

soperj wrote: post #170
myshkin5 wrote: post #117

I’m a fan of the whole Apple ecosystem but I have to say that there’s a pattern here. Apple does a decent job of keeping my data safe from others but a terrible job of keeping it intact. From music libraries with song titles that got switched to long integers to this (and I’m sure more that I’m not remembering atm) they need to do a better job here. Sure security is important but integrity is too.

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Odd that you would omit the part of the text you quoted that contradicts the impression your partial quote creates.

> The images were initially believed to have been obtained via a breach of Apple's cloud services suite iCloud, or a security issue in the iCloud API which allowed them to make unlimited attempts at guessing victims' passwords. Apple claimed in a press release that access was gained via spear phishing attacks.

I also found it notable that the source for the above unlimited password guessing password guessing is an Apple press release that states no such thing.

Also interesting was that all sources in that article suggesting anything about unlimited attempts describe to an app or script (unclear which) called iDar, which the only source to actual name iDar claims that it reports success 100% of the time, regardless of its actual success in guessing the password.

I've no love for Apple. Maybe it's true. But the evidence presented in this wiki article is weak.

Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by darkwater »

SoftTalker wrote: post #155
dmd wrote: post #74

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Maybe you can help bump FB13400242, a bug that is _literally_ going to kill people. (The bug is that to make an emergency call, even from lock screen, you're supposed to be able to squeeze buttons on either side of the phone. But it only works with the volume buttons on the left - the Action button didn't get supported, when that button was added. So now the rule for teaching a small child isn't just "squeeze both si…

I'm decades away from being a small child and I can't remember these gestures. The only time I get screenshots or activate emergency mode on my phone is accidentally. Of course I also don't expect my phone to be able to help me much in an emergency.

Well, not an Apple fan personally but on this they are just top of class. Even if this story involves an Apple Watch and not an iPhone, my father-in-law some time ago fainted (due to an underlying heart issue we late uncovered), knocked his head on the toilet when he got up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom. He lost consciousness for a brief moment and when he regained it, there was already someone from the emergency line speaking through the Apple Watch and he got the ambulance at home faster that without wearing the Apple Watch, and surely helped in saving his life.

Btw I wonder if Apple sends some spoken message to the emergency services or some metadata or just connects the phones and that's it.

Edit: oh and I forgot: my wife got a loud message (that bypassed DND) telling her that her father maybe felt, because she is one of his emergency contacts.

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