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Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by spookie »

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…

On Linux you can just select the text and simply paste it using middle click. It works everywhere on Xorg, on some environments on Wayland. And it will only copy what you selected... everytime.

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Post by CharlesW »

"I don’t know if this is a problem that is specific to OM System cameras, and I’m not particularly interested in investing in a new camera system just to find out."

A better way to have further narrowed down the problem down to Actually iPhoto would've been to do the same tests with a USB-C card reader plugged directly into the Mac, which would've eliminated cables, hubs, and camera hardware/software/firmware as possibilities.

It's worth noting that searches show that OM-1 USB support is imperfect, the camera manual addresses that "USB transfers aren’t guaranteed in some setups", and user consensus seems to be to use a card reader for reliable file transfers.

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Post by janfoeh »

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…

Apple stole my entire music library. I have had one library going back to the first release of iTunes on Windows (2003?) — thousands of songs, most of them CD rips.

I then subscribed to Apple Music and relied on its matching function. After switching from an Intel Mac to an M2 and redownloading my library from remote, it now believes that each and every song in my library are rented Apple Music copies. Even those it shows as having been added in 2003.

Some songs are missing; some go missing, then inexplicably come back months later. Worse: so far I have found around a dozen which have been replaced by different versions.

It's a real mess.

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Post by brailsafe »

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’m a fan of the whole Apple ecosystem

Is that a necessary qualifier? I used to get that impression, but on the outside it's gradually become a rarely believable pitch. Without having an iPhone and without having an Apple Watch, and without having already had them years ago, it just seems like I've sort of made the right choice with just mac over the years, and with the latest OS that's becoming just a tiny bit more questionable; their decision making with software seems sus.

Like I've never had to qualify my setup of using a mac for work, Android phone for phone, and I guess Audio Technica for headphones. It's not super nerdy, it's not super integrated, but if I wanted it to be super integrated, "what value would I get out of steeping myself into the Apple ecosystem further" is the question that comes to mind. I also have an old iPad that I tried to make useful, and the iPod nano 3rd gen which was actually amazing, but ultimately was hampered by software limitations that they don't seem to have advanced on much in 10 years. I've always found their discrete hardware products to be amazing in terms of industrial design, but they've never really been compelling in terms of their utility.

Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by otterdude »

Apple is the new dogshit. Having serious issues with nearly every one of their offerings. Apple TV app needs to be logged in every time. iTunes plays video/audio out of sync. hardware failures on macbook pro / apple watch.

I've stopped buying apple stuff

Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by Xss3 »

JadeNB wrote: post #196
potatoproduct wrote: post #182

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Purposely? Could you elaborate?

People, including me, had a lot of playlists of ripped cds and downloaded mp3s, all categorized, rated, and with years of play count history.

Then apple fucked everyones libraries up completely in an auto update, destroying the metadata and making them unusable, except for songs bought via apple music that is...

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Post by concinds »

hosteur wrote: post #162
roc856a wrote: post #152

Your workflow was horrendous, and now it's merely bad. Don't touch any images on the card until you're sure that the images imported correctly AND your local and cloud backups have backed up the images. I assume you have local and cloud backups. If not, you should set them up right away. Really, cards hold a huge number of images and there should be no rush to empty them out.

That the workflow could be better does not really excuse the software corrupting the images. This is like the "you are holding it wrong" type excuse.

This bug is clearly Apple's fault, but no matter which software or OS you switch to, you'll encounter a bug eventually and you'll be glad to have a workflow that is resilient to that.

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Post by xd »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #77

> Turns out “delete after import” was a huge mistake. https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/photoRec

Bit of context. Deleting after import is unlikely to have zero'd out the data on the SD - so using photorec would have allowed them to quickly and easily recover their pictures from the SD card.

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Post by ASalazarMX »

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…

Apple's hardware is top class, but the software has always been lacking. The only time I've seen both in perfect synergy was when the iPod was released (and even then there was iTunes). Not even the iPhone reveal had that.
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