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Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by sgammon »

anon1395 wrote: post #200
yard2010 wrote: post #180

> Turns out “delete after import” was a huge mistake. I learned the hard way to never delete photos from the SD. Just buy a new one it's so cheap anyway. Great article by the way, sounds like my kind of rabbit hole :)

> Just buy a new one it's so cheap anyway Not a good idea, you are going to have piles and piles of SD cards that will be hard to manage, and you will burn through $$$.

people have catalogued and tracked physical items for centuries without issue; a 1TB SD card is now $75 and can store perhaps a year worth of photos

Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by n0n0n4t0r »

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.

Funnily, "data security" encompass both protecting it from undesired access (and stealing) but also from loss/corruption.

So they do a terrible job from a data security point of view;)

Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by renewiltord »

Use photorec to recover from the old SD card even if you deleted

Then for the current files you’ll want to see what happened. Often with this class of problem either the bytes are zeroed or shifted. Since the size is the same, perhaps they’re zeroed or perhaps bytes are LE to BE or dumb shit like that (don’t know why it would be but weird world right).

Just diff and see if you see anything (I wrote off memory but you get the idea)

   diff -aui
If files are getting zeroed sucks but otherwise maybe you can swizzle it back out. If full bytes look weird, look at binary representation and see if you have pattern.

From that bare start you can see what’s up.

Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by bobbylarrybobby »

skylurk wrote: post #219
montebicyclelo wrote: post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I stopped using apple's notes app with an ipad pen after it lost 20 minutes of my handwritten notes when trying to sync them. (Which fits the theme of apple losing people's stuff.)

I'd love to know how they CRDT hand-written notes.

Sounds like they don't.

Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by 1980phipsi »

xmddmx wrote: post #220
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 am baffled by Apple's incompetence here. In the past years I've seen: * iTunes/Music app randomly reassign my Album artwork, with different (incorrect) art showing up on different devices! * Reminders app: shared reminder lists can end up with the name of a different list * Ghost photos that are deleted from my phone, and come back later. * Maps, when I say "navigate to $friend" set a route that ended in my own dri…

iTunes randomly changing album artwork happened to me too. Only thing that fixed it was wiping the iPhone and resyncing with computer.

Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by renewiltord »

dzink wrote: post #57

Not sure if related but importing images via image capture on mac to the disk of the mac gives you correct time when the photo was taken in the file (kind of important if it’s family photos). But if you import it to a usb drive you get current time as creation time for each file so you’ve lost any timestamp you had on the photos.

I had this with some old photos but you can quickly rsync preserving metadata and then use exiftool to fill in the time and the whole thing will always work. After that I pasted it in Google Photos and it’s correctly in the timeline. Remarkable how easy this stuff is these days with LLM.

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Post by ben_w »

xmddmx wrote: post #220
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 am baffled by Apple's incompetence here. In the past years I've seen: * iTunes/Music app randomly reassign my Album artwork, with different (incorrect) art showing up on different devices! * Reminders app: shared reminder lists can end up with the name of a different list * Ghost photos that are deleted from my phone, and come back later. * Maps, when I say "navigate to $friend" set a route that ended in my own dri…

The clipboard is no longer reliable.

Not sure when exactly that changed, but it was probably a few OS releases ago?

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Post by o_nate »

itake wrote: post #23

Apple corrupted images on my iPhone where I can’t import them to my PC via photos, but I can backup the whole phone. They finally recognized there is an issue, but there is no fix, as of a few weeks ago :(

I had a similar issue recently. I used the Windows Photo app to import & delete photos from my iPhone. When it finished, I realized that a significant fraction of the photos had been corrupted. Not sure where in the pipeline it happened, or if they were already corrupted on the phone.
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