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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 JKCalhoun »

groos wrote: post #300
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.

You don't need repro steps if Apple is serious about quality. Just the description of what's happening should give enough to a senior Apple engineer to intuit where this is possibly happening and create tests that will stress their software to repro this.

You're right. I too have been frustrated when spending the effort to file a bug only to have it "auto-returned" with "cannot repro, please attach example project" or somesuch.

As an engineer on a framework, I take pride in the code and want those trickier-to-repro bugs. And to your point, yeah, I can probably reconstruct in my mind a scenario, knowing my code, where it may be vulnerable.

Whoever screens bugs though is likely trying to 1) handle the huge backlog and 2) trying to spare the engineers bugs delivered with a shrug.

(I had my ass kicked by one bug in particular where I created a FileDescriptor on the main thread, did some things and then released the FileDescriptor on a background thread. Who knew the FileDescriptor code hung some important data it needed on some kind of thread-based storage that essentially required the caller to destroy the FileDescriptor on the same thread it was created on. Fix was to dispatch back to main when ready to release the FileDescriptor.)

Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by ValentineC »

conductr wrote: post #314
JKCalhoun wrote: post #116

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MacOS updates are several per year though. If a fixes found (and the bug considered a high enough priority) it could show up before 2025 is up.

It’s a way to force you to update those apps. They don’t want you on the latest OS and on an old Music or Photos.

Sure, but I want to be on an older macOS and be given the option to use the latest Music or Photos.

For example, I'm probably not going to be upgrading to Tahoe until Sequoia's close to end of support life. I just upgraded to Sequoia last month from Ventura (decided to skip Sonoma since the various anecdotes of Sequoia made it sound like Sonoma-with-AI, with few apps breaking because of some new API change).

Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by ValentineC »

renewiltord wrote: post #227
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.

> 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.

Sorry, I'm not sure if I'm missing something, but what's rsync's role in this?

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Post by Obscurity4340 »

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…

Its probably a good thing in a way if someone learns this lesson in a lesser painful way. You need to manage your own files and backups and content. Data portabillity is the opposite of what they want and try to further abstract away until people dont even know what a file or folder is. Its so easy, you dont even have to lift a finger until you decide you want or need to leave. Thats when you realize its sometimes impossible to take it with you

Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by Obscurity4340 »

apt-apt-apt-apt wrote: post #295
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 think there was a time when my iCloud name somehow got mixed with people with the same name. My name turned into all uppercase, and IIRC (long time ago) I found someone using that style that had the same name.

Dont cloud storage companies also link multiple owners of the same file (same hash or checksum or file identity) to avoid duplication also?

Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by Obscurity4340 »

ByteDrifter wrote: post #395

I’m not a pro, but I use iCloud Photos to back up everything. This bug honestly makes me nervous. If something gets corrupted and I don’t even notice I might lose years of memories without knowing.

Might want to have some redundancy for that just in case. I would never trust them for something as important as that

Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by jraph »

mcintyre1994 wrote: post #420
jraph wrote: post #253

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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.

KDE Connect provides some tight integration, including (optional) clipboard sharing, media player controls, features to do presentations, mouse and keyboard.

I use it as a remote control to adjust volume during movies from the phone to the computer playing them for instance.

https://kdeconnect.kde.org/

Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by neop1x »

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.

You may want to take a look at Ente for photos, too :) https://ente.io/

I am a happy self-hosting user.

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Post by adrianN »

PaulHoule wrote: post #332
KerrAvon wrote: post #282

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