On Apr 1, 2005, at 5:52 AM, Keith Whaley wrote:
I find that how iPhoto operates is counter-intuitive, at least to my old Mac way of working. If it empties all my photo images when I empty the iPhoto Trash, something's amiss, to say the least! No Mac application I've ever used operates that way.
Perhaps I'll use some other application for image shuffling and storage.
Or, simply do it all by hand, as Cotty suggested.
I will continue to keep image copies in several places, and only empty the Finder's trash! <g> Such a business!
Sorry to respond on this thread so late, just getting through the tonnage of PDML email.
I use iPhoto once in a rare bit. It operates pretty slowly, even on a 1.2Ghz G4. It also doesn't have enough editing/browsing/sorting facilities to work for me. The version on my system is currently v4.0.3, which is better than the v2.x release. Current version is iPhoto '05, part of the iLife '05 package. I don't use much from the iLife package other than iTunes, which is freely downloadable, so I'm probably not going to buy it.
I don't know what caused your problems. iPhoto has never done that sort of thing on my system. It does operate a little strangely in my opinion, one of the reasons I don't like using it much.
Normally, I have my system's preferences set to start no applications on attachment of a camera or card reader.
iView Media Pro 2 is what I use to sort and browse photos outside of the Photoshop CS File Browser. It supports display and rudimentary editing, will display most RAW and other media formats. It can handle the importing if you want it to transfer files from a camera or card reader too. There's a free iView catalog reader application (on Mac OS and Windows platforms) that allows you to share catalogs with others without having to ship all the image files around. It can also generate HTML and other output formats; the latest version also supports DNG files. Worth the money, for me anyway. Full information at
http://www.iview-multimedia.com/
Godfrey
