iPhoto = iCrash
Okay, so Apple released iLife today. I've been looking forward to some of the features of iPhoto, as I use it a lot. It's done me pretty well for quite some time. I use iTunes every day, and it's by far one of the best MP3 players I've ever used (smart playlists rule!). I don't use iMovie because I have no DV camcorder.
Anyway....
I installed iPhoto on my PowerBook. The install went great, and iPhoto was able to convert my iPhoto v1 library over to the new iPhoto v2 format. I get home this evening and try to do the same on my iMac. The installer completes successfully, but I can't get iPhoto to launch. It starts to launch, then shows the iPhoto window, and then crashes. Every time. I tried rebooting. I tried repairing disk permissions. I even tried using the backup of my iPhoto library I had made. No luck.
My final solution was to copy over the converted iPhoto library from the PowerBook to the iMac. This library wasn't synched up entirely with the iMac, so I had to manually import three older albums from the original iPhoto library I had on the iMac. Needless to say, I wasn't happy at the hassle I had to go through.
iPhoto 2 is not much faster than iPhoto 1. I do notice it shuts down a bit quicker, but scrolling and picture saving (i.e. after you change the title of the photo) still take a while. And what's worse is that if you have a very large iTunes music database, be prepared to wait a while for the preferences window to open. Oh, and I couldn't get a slideshow to work with a song in my iTunes database. It hung with the spinning beachball of death.
God, I hope there's an iPhoto 2.0.1 update coming soon. iPhoto 2.0 is nothing but shit in my book.
And another thing, Apple - for the love of God, please work on window resizing. Jesus H. Christ!! Your users have only been bitching about this since the beginning of OS X. You'd think that by now you'd have been able to do more about it than you have! (As an aside, window resizing speed is worse for brushed metal apps. It's a tad better for normal Aqua apps.)
Rant mode is off... for now.
Anyway....
I installed iPhoto on my PowerBook. The install went great, and iPhoto was able to convert my iPhoto v1 library over to the new iPhoto v2 format. I get home this evening and try to do the same on my iMac. The installer completes successfully, but I can't get iPhoto to launch. It starts to launch, then shows the iPhoto window, and then crashes. Every time. I tried rebooting. I tried repairing disk permissions. I even tried using the backup of my iPhoto library I had made. No luck.
My final solution was to copy over the converted iPhoto library from the PowerBook to the iMac. This library wasn't synched up entirely with the iMac, so I had to manually import three older albums from the original iPhoto library I had on the iMac. Needless to say, I wasn't happy at the hassle I had to go through.
iPhoto 2 is not much faster than iPhoto 1. I do notice it shuts down a bit quicker, but scrolling and picture saving (i.e. after you change the title of the photo) still take a while. And what's worse is that if you have a very large iTunes music database, be prepared to wait a while for the preferences window to open. Oh, and I couldn't get a slideshow to work with a song in my iTunes database. It hung with the spinning beachball of death.
God, I hope there's an iPhoto 2.0.1 update coming soon. iPhoto 2.0 is nothing but shit in my book.
And another thing, Apple - for the love of God, please work on window resizing. Jesus H. Christ!! Your users have only been bitching about this since the beginning of OS X. You'd think that by now you'd have been able to do more about it than you have! (As an aside, window resizing speed is worse for brushed metal apps. It's a tad better for normal Aqua apps.)
Rant mode is off... for now.
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