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Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by eichin » Wed, Sep 17, 2025, 8:46 PM UTC

latexr wrote: post #69

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have had extremely bad luck, reporting bugs to Apple. They constantly ask for an example project, even if it's something that is easily demonstrated, simply by running existing Apple software, and creating a project, would be a huge pain. They also ignore reports. Very rarely, I may get a ping on one of my reports, asking me to verify that it was fixed in some release. Otherwise, there's no sign that they ever even…

> I have had extremely bad luck, reporting bugs to Apple. From your description, your experience is quite typical.

mmm, it was better than the "closed as duplicate" (of an internal bug that you can't access) path that used to be the big complaint about radar...

Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by drnick1 » Wed, Sep 17, 2025, 8:49 PM UTC

You couldn't pay me to go back to using anything made by Apple or Google. I use a GrapheneOS Pixel and my self-hosted "cloud" with Nextcloud, HomeAssitant, and my own email server and the control and performance are unrivaled by any of the Big Tech crapware. I could start self-hosting an AI chatbot I suppose, but these do not seem to have reached the point of enshiffication yet as relatively new services.

Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by eichin » Wed, Sep 17, 2025, 8:52 PM UTC

PaulHoule wrote: post #191

in_cahoots wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, after you've had this problem once it seems you'd uncheck delete after import before buying a literally entirely new photography system.

My workflow is don't delete after import but format the card in the camera afterwards. I have XXXL cards and it is not such a problem if I forget to format. I had one case where I screwed up a shoot and thought file corruption might have been involved (it wasn't) Even though I had formatted the card with the camera and shot maybe 5 test shots I was able to recover most of the images with Disk Drill https://www.clever…

(for media files, the linux tool of choice is PhotoRec, sometimes packaged as part of testdisk)

Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by abustamam » Wed, Sep 17, 2025, 8:55 PM UTC

drnick1 wrote: post #342

You couldn't pay me to go back to using anything made by Apple or Google. I use a GrapheneOS Pixel and my self-hosted "cloud" with Nextcloud, HomeAssitant, and my own email server and the control and performance are unrivaled by any of the Big Tech crapware. I could start self-hosting an AI chatbot I suppose, but these do not seem to have reached the point of enshiffication yet as relatively new services.

It may be a bit pedantic but Pixel is made by Google. I know you de-Googlefied it by using Graphene but it's still running on Google hardware.

I wonder if there are any viable alternatives though.

Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by maipen » Wed, Sep 17, 2025, 9:08 PM UTC

In the age of AI, apple should just open source these basic apps. They really don’t have anything to lose if they this.

Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by novok » Wed, Sep 17, 2025, 9:11 PM UTC

thewebguyd wrote: post #171

ValentineC wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's worse about the Apple ecosystem is that because of how tightly coupled it is, a bug fix for Photos would only come as part of a macOS update. Which means that if that bug has been present since the (now unsupported) Mavericks, tough luck!

I still don't under stand why Apple limits updates to their first party apps to OS updates. They could really benefit from how Google does it on Android and decouple it. Push updates to their first party apps via the app store like everyone else, and let the OS update on its own separate schedule.

A lot of them are also the library surface for a lot of internal foundational libraries. Photos is also PhotoKit, similarly with email. It's essentially over coupled.

Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by cons0le » Wed, Sep 17, 2025, 9:11 PM UTC

drnick1 wrote: post #342

You couldn't pay me to go back to using anything made by Apple or Google. I use a GrapheneOS Pixel and my self-hosted "cloud" with Nextcloud, HomeAssitant, and my own email server and the control and performance are unrivaled by any of the Big Tech crapware. I could start self-hosting an AI chatbot I suppose, but these do not seem to have reached the point of enshiffication yet as relatively new services.

I may be out of the loop, but can't google just kill GrapheneOS anytime it wants? I never tried it out because I assumed that in the near future it won't be compatible with banking and messaging apps. Do they have a long term plan to exist in 5-10 years?

Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by drnick1 » Wed, Sep 17, 2025, 9:12 PM UTC

abustamam wrote: post #344

drnick1 wrote: post #342

You couldn't pay me to go back to using anything made by Apple or Google. I use a GrapheneOS Pixel and my self-hosted "cloud" with Nextcloud, HomeAssitant, and my own email server and the control and performance are unrivaled by any of the Big Tech crapware. I could start self-hosting an AI chatbot I suppose, but these do not seem to have reached the point of enshiffication yet as relatively new services.

It may be a bit pedantic but Pixel is made by Google. I know you de-Googlefied it by using Graphene but it's still running on Google hardware. I wonder if there are any viable alternatives though.

You could use a Linux phone, but that would almost certainly mean worse hardware and/or worse compatibility with Android programs (emulator). But for all intents and purposes, when running Graphene Google has no power over you and can't enforce arbitrary bans on sideloading, call recording, etc.

Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by zahirbmirza » Wed, Sep 17, 2025, 9:13 PM UTC

I have had raw files on an CF card that were corrupted by an import attempt. I never used iOS import again unless the card was backed up to a computer first.

Recently, importing via image capture has resulted in recurrent crashes. Files appear on Image Capture that do not appear on the iPhone, nor can they be downloaded via image capture, or deleted. I wish I knew wtfudge was going on.

Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by fmajid » Wed, Sep 17, 2025, 9:17 PM UTC

cons0le wrote: post #347

drnick1 wrote: post #342

You couldn't pay me to go back to using anything made by Apple or Google. I use a GrapheneOS Pixel and my self-hosted "cloud" with Nextcloud, HomeAssitant, and my own email server and the control and performance are unrivaled by any of the Big Tech crapware. I could start self-hosting an AI chatbot I suppose, but these do not seem to have reached the point of enshiffication yet as relatively new services.

I may be out of the loop, but can't google just kill GrapheneOS anytime it wants? I never tried it out because I assumed that in the near future it won't be compatible with banking and messaging apps. Do they have a long term plan to exist in 5-10 years?

They are working with an OEM to make aGrapheneOS phone with all the security features they require like the ARM Memory Tagging Extensions.