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Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by luke-stanley »

xlii wrote: post #249

I feel it's OM camera issue. I've been importing raws for years from Sony and earlier from Pentax and didn't experience it. In fact searching for "OM image corruption" shows bunch of results not related to Apple Photo. My guess is that OM has buggy SD driver which starts deletion before actual read finished.

I ran into the same corruption issue without any sort of RAW images and without using OM camera. My partner was pissed at me, thinking it was my fault. But it turns out that Apple Photos is to blame!

Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by pacifika »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #238
ben_w wrote: post #228

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The clipboard is no longer reliable. Not sure when exactly that changed, but it was probably a few OS releases ago?

Clipboard has been unstable on every OS (especially on Desktop - and I mean Linux, Windows and Mac), and I think part of the culprit is apps like Teams and Discord, if you Ctrl + C by mistake on an empty text box, IT COPIES THE EMPTY TEXT BOX effectively wiping your clipboard. It's the most irritating UX and it took me years to figure out. Always right click copy and right click paste, you'll notice it works 100% of…

I’ve copied with right click out of chatGPT on Firefox and the contents not ending up on my clipboard. Not reliably.

Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by jraph »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #238
ben_w wrote: post #228

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The clipboard is no longer reliable. Not sure when exactly that changed, but it was probably a few OS releases ago?

Clipboard has been unstable on every OS (especially on Desktop - and I mean Linux, Windows and Mac), and I think part of the culprit is apps like Teams and Discord, if you Ctrl + C by mistake on an empty text box, IT COPIES THE EMPTY TEXT BOX effectively wiping your clipboard. It's the most irritating UX and it took me years to figure out. Always right click copy and right click paste, you'll notice it works 100% of…

Clipboard managers help a lot there.

I just use KDE's default one, Klipper, and I raise the max entry number.

If something bad replaces your copy, you can get the good one back from the history.

There are nice features like QR code generation for your copied text if you want to quickly share something with someone else's phone as well.

Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by bigyabai »

crazygringo wrote: post #237
xmddmx wrote: post #220

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I completely agree about there being a fundamental design flaw. I still use Macs because data on a physical disk seems perfectly reliable, but I've been bitten by so many of these bugs in their apps. iCloud files completely disappear, then reappear a day later. Highlight a couple chapters of a PDF in Preview, then reopen the file and they're gone because iCloud thinks the older unhighlighted version is newer or somet…

> There's no other word for it but "insane". They can engineer their A-series and M-series microchips

There are certainly other words for it. Lazy, anticompetitive, disinterested, any of those are more plausible than all of Apple being insane. They sold you a microchip that you knew you wanted, now they are beholden to little else. For over a decade, Apple didn't even offer the iOS APIs for third-parties to implement cloud storage. They know you need their software services, regardless of how shit they are.

Insanity would be a pretty satisfying explanation. Fickleness fits a lot better with Apple's track record though.

Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by cozzyd »

montebicyclelo wrote: post #130
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 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.)

Deleting your data is next level privacy.

Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by luke-stanley »

tehlike wrote: post #164
hosteur wrote: post #158

I am not letting Apple Photos touch my photos. Neither Google Photos, etc. All my photos are managed using Digikam and developed using Darktable. They are also visualized via immich, but immich only has access via a read-only mountpoint. Everything is hosted locally of course.

I am moving this direction, but for now as a redundancy purpose. Copied google take out into immich, who has its mountpoint use truenas iscsi backed by zfs. Zfs is set to take snapshots frequently.

Just a warning, I don't think that ZFS snapshots are sufficient for ZFS bitrot protection.

Ensuring ZFS has at least 2 copies on physically separate disks and using scrub frequently is the way, right?

Please correct me if I am wrong HN!

Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by gokhan »

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.

> Apple does a decent job of keeping my data safe...

How do you know? Why do you believe that they're competent on writing security code but not competent enough to write a general purpose app? Is there a different company culture applied to the latter?

Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by elliotec »

Always count on Tenderlove for a detailed technical deep dive! I've missed your blog.

Tangential story - 12-13 years ago I was a burgeoning and super eager software dev that moved to Seattle to be closer to "the scene." tenderlove's content was a major reason for me going there and I poured through his posts learning way too much about Nokogiri, Active Record, and much much more.

I went to every Ruby meetup I could get to out there and I remember one in particular, a Seattle RB meetup, in the Substantial office. It was a pretty small group, at most 15-20 people.

I was with a coder buddy but knew nobody else. We were all just drinking pints of Manny's beer and eating pizza from Big Mario's or something. Ryan Davis (the creator of minitest among other things) was doing a presentation on Unicode.

Aaron Patterson (tenderlove) was cracking jokes at every opportunity. At one point I asked a relatively naive question and Aaron _tenderly_ answered in joke-form response. I felt such a _part_ of the scene then. Aja Hammerly was super engaged in the presentation, I think even Ryan Bates and/or Geoffrey Grosenbach were there.

It was quite surreal to be in this dream-like state around giants and heroes just doing what they were doing and being so inclusive. It seemed so normal but became a core memory.

Thanks for everything Aaron, you've truly been an inspiration!

Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by anon7000 »

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…

Another two examples:

* prompts in settings for adding an account recovery contact that never go away, even after months and months of successfully setting it up multiple times.

* OS account profile picture can barely stay associated with the most recently picked option. Happens for non-iCloud local accounts on Mac, happens when I change profile pictures on iOS for iCloud… weird.

* OS account update screens on iPad, iOS, and watchOS will forget that they are in the middle of updating if you navigate away from the settings screen. Thankfully, today they at least recover from it (it’s probably still happening in the background), but it takes several long seconds of spinning for the settings page to remember that it was doing an update two seconds ago before I navigated away from it.

* similar to your ghost pictures bug, deleting a large media file from a media player app moves it to recently deleted, but you can sometimes end up in situations where you can’t permanently delete the file, or it doesn’t show up anywhere but still takes up space. (Talking about 20GB-80GB file sizes where it makes a big difference on OS storage space)

Some of these bugs have been around for a VERY long time.

But the weird thing is I don’t see them in 3rd party apps.

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