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Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by dsego »

jrm4 wrote: post #286
rendaw wrote: post #239

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Oh wow, I'm surprised the name change appears to be so universally appreciated on reddit. It doesn't strike me as different from "porn" i.e. "unix porn" "food porn" etc, which are at least somewhat widely accepted. I assumed it was self-aware/deprecating humor, as in the people there recognized they were frequently replacing which gear they used beyond what might be strictly necessary. It was colorful, in the way a l…

If only people who liked a certain GNU image editing app were so appreciative of such an idea...

At one time there was a fork called Glimpse which basically had some minor UI improvements and a sane name.

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Post by darkwater »

bigiain wrote: post #407
KerrAvon wrote: post #282

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Maybe you want to rethink that? You're literally responding to a testimonial that it likely saved someone's life. Seconds do matter in some medical emergencies. Also, you may not be aware of Car Crash Detection https://support.apple.com/en-us/104959

Of course, the seconds that matter might be someone else's medical emergency, which your iPhone or Apple Watch is slowing down with false positives. From https://9to5mac.com/2023/02/03/iphone-crash-detection-critic... “My whole day is managing crash notifications,” said Trina Dummer, interim director of Summit County’s emergency services, which received 185 such calls in the week from Jan. 13 to Jan. 22. (In winters…

Yep, this is the other side of the coin for sure. There should probably be some basic training around these features; there will still be many (careless) people that just completely ignore the "are you OK?" question the watch/phone is asking them but maybe the situation would improve.

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Post by lunarboy »

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #46
tenderlove wrote: post #24

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This is also my guess. It's really a bummer, and I'd report it to Apple but since it's nondeterministic I have no idea how to provide repro steps.

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…

Open radar is a just a landfill. Nothing ever gets picked up for fixing

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Post by lloeki »

moritonal wrote: post #315
ChrisRR wrote: post #16

I feel like this is a URL that I don't want in my history

This person is a nice person, who's published a huge amount of positive work into the Ruby community. I do wish however they'd change their name from the perspective of a figurehead in the community, we have code referencing their repos and it's just awkward with interns to explain.

Why would a person need to conform to some uniform grey norm to be able to contribute in any capacity?

Ruby's community has been all sorts of whimsy and quirky over the years.

I very much enjoy Tenderlove being the community figurehead he is as is: kind, empathetic, genuine, open-minded, and generally wholesome.

> it's just awkward with interns to explain.

I've never had any trouble talking about Aaron Patterson a.k.a Tenderlove to coworkers, interns or otherwise.

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Post by borisgolovnev »

nickcw wrote: post #172
jjcob wrote: post #64

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I tried running the file segments through a binary diff with Hex Fiend As far as I can tell: - 0x7800 bytes were replaced at file offset 0x00aa0000 - 0x2200 bytes were replaced at file offset 0x00aa8000 I can't tell if the replacement data came from a different part of the file, or somewhere totally different. Race condition somewhere sounds plausible.

gcd(0x2200,0x7800) = 512 So some part of the chain with 512 byte buffer size corrupted the data. It doesn't look like a memory corruption but if this were my computer I'd run the equivalent of memtest86 on it. It looks like a filing system corruption to me. Running `diskutil info` on the main harddisk and the sd card might be interesting to see if the block sizes match. Running a disk tester on the sd card and the ma…

It's a shame APFS does nothing to ensure file integrity.

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Post by borisgolovnev »

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.

But OP says they tried different SD card readers. And, now that Macbooks have SD card readers and every desktop dock and type c dongle thing has one, who even uses the camera to transfer photos?

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Post by borisgolovnev »

driggs wrote: post #157

I've not experienced corruption like the author, since my workflow involves copying the raw files from sdcard to harddrive, and then importing into Photos. After processing the raws in Photos, I export a .jpg back out to the filesystem. That's because my worry is corruption of the entire Library, which Photos stores as one gigantic opaque file/directory abomination. My .photoslibrary file is currently 70gb in size, a…

Rookie numbers :) I know people whos pushing 1TB, mine is almost 500GB. I back it up to a mechanical HDD every now and then.

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Post by borisgolovnev »

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…

Finder being unable to show file information and instead showing something that looks like file information but is completely wrong is scary and sad. And it has been like this for months. Like here, none of the data in the General part matches the actual file. More info is correct, Preview is correct, so I know I did in fact click the correct file. http://bn5i3r.s3.amazonaws.com/Screenshot-2025-09-17-at-17-0... Happens randomly so I don't know how to report this (and from experience I know that reporting bugs to Apple is completely useless).

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Post by mcintyre1994 »

jraph wrote: post #253
giancarlostoro wrote: post #238

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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.

That’s a really interesting solution to copy-pasting between devices, which is one of them features Apple has that I rely on a tonne even though it’s horribly unreliable. I wonder if anyone has a similarly clever way to copy from mobile to your computer.
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