iLife ‘08: completely useless?
Posted on September 16, 2007
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The screen shot above shows what iLife ‘08 did to a 7-year-old collection of photos and albums - some 30,000 pictures that used to work flawlessly in iPhoto ‘06 are just unrecognized by iPhoto ‘08. Dozens, if not a hundred albums, including thigs like John and Julie’s wedding just show blank squares where thumbnails once were.
I did a manual rebuild of the photodatabase (and made a copy) and iPhoto ‘08 wrecked it again. The bug is completely repeatable for large databases. Lately Linda has found that she can’t export recently imported pictures - she gets a weird ‘Can’t create directory’ error - except the directory exists and is writable.
An attempt to put up a picture page with iWeb this morning failed repeatedly with an obscure rss permissions error. No clue how to fix. So $80 worth of iLife plus $80 for .Mac equals, so far, zero value. Linda’s so angry she wants to take iLife back to Apple Store and shout at somebody.
iLife ‘08 also killed our Picasaweb upload plug-in, but fortunately Google offers a standalone uploader, which worked flawlessly. So free Google trumps buggy, useless $160 worth of Apple software…
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I’ve found iPhoto (’06, for me) a little buggy in places too. Almost every time I empty the trash, it crashes.
I’d be happier if Apple skipped a year of updates, and replaced it with a year of intensive testing and bug fixing instead.
[…] Anyway, I decided to resume our walks this morning: a short walk, to be sure, and Cassie wasn’t very good, pulling me hither and yon, but we made our way. This time of year, the sun is low in the sky, so I may snare some interesting ‘morning’ pix for the blog - this one was snapped with a 21mm f2.8 Elmarit-M on the Leica M8 and processed in Lightroom 1.2 (I have completely given up on iPhoto ‘08). […]
Chris, I’ve just got my first Mac (24″ iMac) and I’ve successfully imported photos and music from XP. iPhoto 08 seems OK to me - but you’re right, the in-line Picassa thing doesn’t work.
On another note, it’s great to read that you’re back walking Cassie !
[…] We’ll be trying Leopard out on one of the Mac Minis before deploying it more widely on the LAN. Our iLife ‘08 experience has left us a bit nervous about new Apple software… […]
I don’t agree more with the assessment of “useless.” If you’ve spent any time organizing your Library, Events is a real setback. What was Apple thinking? I’m yanking iPhoto 08 off my machine. Luckily I made a backup of my iPhoto Library before upgrading, so I hope I can return to where I was without too much trouble.