A statement really. iPhoto is the worst piece of software I've ever tried to use. I plan to stop using it.

Faces causing problems. Distorted the photos when I moved them from my previous Mac OSX. I don't want "faces" but don't how to disable that.
It has created 30,000 records! It has pulled faces of complete strangers out of some photos!

Well as you were running 10.4, which is two - and almost three - iterations behind the current OS, I'm not sure they'll be entertaining feature requests for it.
You are constantly confusing Machines, OS and software and conflating them into some other entity. You need to separate them out in your head.
I had an Mac OS X 10,4
No you didn't. You had a Mac that had 10.4 on it. That's an older version of the System Software.
came away with an iMac Snow Leopard.
... An iMac with the Snow Leopard version of the OS - 10.6.
From there I transferred the photos to the new Mac.
And the key question is "How?". From your description you imported a library from the external to one on the new. This fits the scenario you describe:
I find after the load I have photos all in a disorganized condition, which much duplication of photos to the point that there are 30,000 photos!
I posted instructions above for bow to migrate a Library to a new machine.
"Faces" were not used on the Mac OS X and I suppose I must have turned them off at some point (?)
Faces is a feature of iPhoto 09 and later. Whatever version of iPhoto you had on the older machine "the Mac OS X") did not have the feature. You did not turn them off. As we keep telling you, you can't turn them off. But as you don't use them they should be invisible to you.
My advice is to trash this bunged up library, redo the migration as per the above instructions and ignore the faces feature.
Regards
TD

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Case #0185050991
Updated
Thursday, January 23, 2014 12:33:46 PM PST
Opened
Tuesday, January 7, 2014 5:29:52 AM PST
Status
Open - Pending Adobe Response
Product
Creative Cloud Indiv 1.0
Support contract
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Subject
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Notes & responses
Notes from Customer
Thursday, January 23, 2014 12:33:46 PM PST
I have posted 4 responses on this ticket to call me today 1-23-14 @ 2:30pm EST
I figure no one reads the responses since no one called me today as it is now 3:30pm EST and no one has called me on this ticket as
I have requested
I called into tech support again and am now waiting on a call back that is supposed to happen in the next 35 to 45 minutes
If there was a way to voice my displeasure working with your tech support department I would.
Conveniently there is nowhere on your website to complain to anyone although it would probably go unanswered as I think your company
only wants the initial sale then could care less about your customers after the sale!
3 weeks after my initial call and still no help on a resolution to my Adobe errors=pathetic
Notes from Customer
Thursday, January 23, 2014 5:17:37 AM PST
Once again please learn how to read my previous responses. Your department keeps calling me at the incorrect date and time. I have r
esponded 3 times already in this ticket to call me @ 2:30 pm Est on 1-23-14 and no one seems to be able to read as they keep asking
me to give a call back data and time.
Here goes for the 4th time - Please call ME @ 330 -255-2432 on 1-23-14 @ 2:30 pm EST
I don't know how I can be clearer on the date and time. Hopefully someone will be able to understand 1-23-14 @ 2:30PM EST 330-255-24
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Wednesday, January 22, 2014 4:17:17 PM PST
Hi ,
Thank you for contacting Adobe Customer Service. We are responding in reference to your case number 185050991 . We would be happy
to assist and assure you with the best possible assistance regarding the case.
We also tried calling you on 330-255-2432 but you were not available. So please get back to us or if you would like us to give you
a call as per your availability, please let us know of an appropriate time to call by updating the case from Adobe Support Portal.
You can also visit www.adobe.com/go/supportportal for any assistance regarding Adobe products. You may also visit www.forums.adobe.
com as it’s a useful resource for self-help.
We are always here to assist you. Please contact us at 800-833-6687 Monday to Friday between 0500 hrs and 1900 hrs PST, if you have
any questions or need an update on your case.
Thanks & Regards,
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Wednesday, January 22, 2014 4:17:17 PM PST
As I said on 1-16-14
Your technical support is terrible!
Please contact me @330-255-2432 on 1-23-14 @ 2:30pm est
Not sure if you have a calendar but today is the 17th not the 23rd as I requested a callback then.
Please read the notes section of this ticket and call me @330-255-2432 @ 2:30est -DO NOT not call the main line and get put into voi
cemail!
Notes from Customer
Friday, January 17, 2014 1:48:04 PM PST
As I said on 1-16-14
Your technical support is terrible!
Please contact me @330-255-2432 on 1-23-14 @ 2:30pm est
Not sure if you have a calendar but today is the 17th not the 23rd as I requested a callback then.
Please read the notes section of this ticket and call me @330-255-2432 @ 2:30est -DO NOT not call the main line and get put into voi
cemail!
Notes to Customer
Friday, January 17, 2014 1:40:28 PM PST
Hi ,
Thank you for contacting Adobe Customer Service. We are responding in reference to your case number 185050991 . We would be happy
to assist and assure you with the best possible assistance regarding the case.
We also tried calling you on 3307629785 but you were not available. So please get back to us or if you would like us to give you a
call as per your availability, please let us know of an appropriate time to call by updating the case from Adobe Support Portal.
You can also visit www.adobe.com/go/supportportal for any assistance regarding Adobe products. You may also visit www.forums.adobe.c
om as it’s a useful resource for self-help.
We are always here to assist you. Please contact us at 800-833-6687 Monday to Friday between 0500 hrs and 1900 hrs PST, if you have
any questions or need an update on your case.
Thanks & Regards,
Adobe Technical Support
Notes from Customer
Thursday, January 16, 2014 9:13:29 AM PST
Your technical support is terrible!
I have been waiting on hold now for over 40 minutes
Please contact me @330-255-2432 on 1-23-14 @ 2:30pm est
I can't spend my whole day waiting on non existant support. Your company really needs to hire more techs as the wait times are unacc
eptable!
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Tuesday, January 14, 2014 7:51:57 AM PST
Hi ,
Thank you for contacting Adobe Customer Service. We are responding in reference to your case number 185050991. We would be happy to
assist and assure you with the best possible assistance regarding the case.
We also tried calling you on 3307629785 but you were not available. So please get back to us or if you would like us to give you a c
all as per your availability, please let us know of an appropriate time to call by updating the case from Adobe Support Portal.
You can also visit www.adobe.com/go/supportportal for any assistance regarding Adobe products. You may also visit www.forums.adobe.c
om as it’s a useful resource for self-help.
We are always here to assist you. Please contact us at 800-833-6687 Monday to Friday between 0500 hrs and 1900 hrs PST, if you have
any questions or need an update on your case.
Thanks & Regards,
Adobe Technical Support
Notes from Customer
Tuesday, January 7, 2014 6:28:30 AM PST
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9.1x64
admin rights
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active directory
windows client
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Tuesday, January 7, 2014 5:29:52 AM PST
Hi
Please provide the following information so that we can do the further trouble shooting :
-- Server OS type and version (including service packs) - Linux, Solaris, Windows etc.
-- Desktop client OS type and version(s)
-- InDesign or InCopy product version and language
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-- Network protocol to Mount/Access the server volume from a client desktop computer
-- Type of network protocol being used (SMB, Active Directory, Novell, etc.)
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-- Problem Statement (i.e. "When I do X with Y, Z happens") including exact wording of any error messages received
-- Steps to reproduce the problem would be very helpful, and other relevant details
Regards
Adobe support

Hi,
I apologize for the unpleasant experiences with our Tech Support.
It seems you have InDesign related issue so I am moving your posting to InDesign form from PDF Pack forum.
Thank you.
Hisami

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I have used a lot of Adobe products in the past, and haven't used one this bad since PageMaker 6.5. Come one Adobe, you have a lot of good products...
This is definitely not something my company will purchase.

funny... i am currently working on a bunch of forms in LiveCycle and I am sooo incredibly peeved at this application that I searched for "LiveCycle is a piece of crap" and found this post. =)
Yes, i know the that this post is from over a year ago, but it is obvious they havent made any improvements to the software.
I'll ditto what Jeff said and add
10.the debugger constantly disappears (yes, I followed the directions in the "help" file). I have to constantly flip between Acrobat Pro and LiveCycle, close Acrobat Pro, come back, stand on my head, while balancing a banana on my nose to get it to stay. Seriously, I feel like I'm dealing with a set of old-school TV rabbit ears trying to tune in a distant station
11. the debugger is two lines off in its error reporting. If it says you have an error at line 39, the error is REALLY at line 37. Took me forever and a ton of messageBoxes to finally figure this out.
12. The debugger doesnt actually support breakpoints, watches, etc inside of livecycle. You can set a breakpoint, but your code isnt visible while you are in preview mode, so what good is it? What good is stepping into your code if you cant SEE your code?
13. If I have two documents open, and select an object from one via the Hierarchy palette, the view of that document jumps to the beginning of the document.
14. Why cant you drag and drop objects from the hierarchy palette from one open document to another??
15. Why isnt there a keyboard shortcut to flip between open documents?? It SHOULD be Ctrl+Tab (following what 90% of other programs use), but instead that flips between the document's different view tabs.
16. Why cant you click+hold+drag from the lower-right to the upper left to select multiple objects at once?
17. When you paste in a subForm with its objects, it makes the subForm area on the page HUGE, even if the objects in the subForm are fairly small
18. When you create a new subForm in the hierarchy pallete, the view in the palette jumps to the very top object, and you have to scroll all the way back down and find your unnamed subform
19. Why are pdfs produced in LiveCycle not compatible with Acrobat Pro's Accessibility Checker? This one is HUGE. I spent over a week with our Adaptive Computing department trying to figure out why my pdfs were failing the accessibility checker when I had followed every known guide available on producing accessible pdfs. Even more frustrating, despite all the errors Acrobat Pro said were there, JAWS and all the other accessible technologies were able to use my pdfs just fine.
20. Why do you have to manually add in a guide line via measurement first and then drag it to where it really needs to be? Why cant you just grab the ruler and drag a guideline where you want it like photoshop? Yes, I know I can drag from the upper left and get both a vertical and horizontal line, but if i only need one, then I have to drag the other one back off the document.
I could keep going on and on and on....

Is Time Machine Apple's worst piece of software EVER?

I am sick of Time Machine not working properly.
I've tried it with an Airport Extreme and an external disk, with Time Capsule, using Leopard, Snow Lepard and now Lion.
I do an erase of whichever disk I'm using and then a full backup - and it works fine until I turn off my MBP. Next day or next week it says:
"The backup disk image “/Volumes/Backup/Ian’s MacBook Pro 2.sparsebundle” could not be accessed (error -1)."
And yet... as soon as I tell Time Machine to 'backup now' the Time Capsule disk shows on my desktop, in finder, in Disk Utilities and in the Time Machine prefs window. But all I get is a message saying "Looking for backup disk..."
As I say, I've tried Extreme/external disk/TimeCapsule/Leopard/Snow Lepard and Lion and it's never worked for more than a week or two before "The backup disk image “/Volumes/Backup/Ian’s MacBook Pro 2.sparsebundle” could not be accessed (error -1)."
It's not just useless, it's worse than useless as I cannot rely on it. And yes, I've read all the support stuff I can find (Pondini etc.), none of it solves the problem.
(I'm backing up (trying to) over wifi, my partner has her own sparsebundle on the Time Capsue, which mostly works though it slows her MBP to a crawl when it's backing up.)
Does anybody have any fresh ideas?
Thanks.
P.S. Thank the Lord for Backblaze and CarbonCopyCloner, if I had to rely on Apple for my backups I'd be a nervous wreck.

Tom in London wrote:
ian-apple wrote:
It's not just useless, it's worse than useless
I realised that the very first day TM ever came out. I've never used it. It doesn't do anything I would need. I use Carbon Copy Cloner.
Why drive yourself up the wall trying to make it do what it clearly cannot do? Give yourself some peace, and forget Time Machine.
Truer word have never been spoken.
Tried to use TM once. It copied the backup copy of my system to a folder on my system never overwriting anything. I was left with the same problem I had before starting the TM restore. Only 32GBs of space missing from my HDD. Never again. I now use CCC.
Same goes on the Windows side. I use Acronis True Image on Windows and have images files dating back to when I built the system that can be restored to a fresh install or any point in time after that. Same for my newest Dell Latitude. I imaged the drive as it came from the factory, before I logged on for the first time. And with ATI you can image and restore the Complete drive, not just one partition.
I have never had CCC or Acronis tell me the the volume can't be accessed. Especially when you really need it.

Literally the worst customer support experience I've ever had to deal with -- Why don't they let their customers speak to supervisors on demand?

Call 1: I spoke to them to see if I was eligible for an upgrade. It turned out they had accidentally counted a temporary phone switch to an old device as an upgrade. The representative was extremely slow minded and took over an hour to read through my notes and process what I was saying happened, consulting with his supervisor multiple times. He claimed to have noted everything and told me I had to go to a verizon store to verify in person that I was still using my original phone, and that then I would be able to get an upgrade immediately.
Trip to the store: Drove an hour only to be told by the store rep that there were NO NOTES on my account about the issue and there was nothing he could do to help me and that I'd have to call customer support again. The store was closing in 20 mins and customer support seems to take 45 minutes minimum to resolve anything, so I left.
Call 2: Asked a woman to speak to a supervisor about the guy who wasted 2+ hours of my life and gas money. She put me on hold for a long time, came back and said they were all busy right now, would I like to leave my complaint with her? I said no thank you, I will keep waiting. She said ok, and proceeded to hang up.
Call 3: Asked a different woman to speak to a supervisor, she put me on hold for a long time and then told me that since I wasn't an authorized user I could not speak to one... lol ok. Had a family member call and authorize me.
Call 4: Asked a guy to speak to a manager. He insisted on taking the complaint himself. Why would I trust someone to take a complaint about their colleague possibly sitting a few desks away when many of them have proven to be incredibly incompetent already? It sounded like we were making progress... then he hung up too.
Call 5: Asked yet another woman to speak to the manager. She demanded a reason, I told her it was to make a complaint and she told me about a dozen times that the managers would just tell her to take the complaint. I insisted, she refused... finally I threatened to close all of our accounts unless she let me speak to a manager. She said they couldn't right now since the office was closing soon, but that one would call me within 24-48 hours. I'd bet my life savings that never happens. At that point I tried to talk to her about the original upgrade issue, and she said her system had suddenly crashed and that I'd have to call back the next day... Seriously???
Absolutely unreal how horrible their customer support is. Will be switching to T-Mobile immediately.

Having worked in customer service, I have some experience with this kind of situation. Reps are typically trained to make all attempts to handle complaints by themselves, because there are obviously many more reps than supervisors. They're usually REQUIRED to fully authorize the account and to get the whole situation from the customer prior to referring you to a supervisor. One of the biggest problems is that many customers think that demanding a supervisor is a way to guarantee you will get what you want. If the reason for your request to escalate isn't a valid one, the supervisor won't give in to you either.
There are plenty of times in my own experience, especially as a brand new rep out of training, that I took a long time to research and get an understanding of the issue. Yes, I wasn't moving at light speed, but that doesn't make me an idiot. It means I was trying to gather as much info s possible to try and deal with the issue. But I had plenty of customers tell me I was stupid and to transfer them to my supervisor, simply because I took longer than their patience could tolerate to get all the details I needed.
I have never had a job that I executed flawlessly day in and day out. Maybe you have and that's why you can't tolerate a person taking a little longer to wrap their head around the issue, but I'd rather doubt it.
I also don't think you will find reps who work at light speed and utilize a magic wand to fix people's issues at T-Mobile, either, but I guess it never hurts to try.
Just to clarify: I do not work for Verizon and never have. I worked for a residential phone and internet company.

A statement really. iPhoto is the worst piece of software I've ever tried to use. I plan to stop using it.

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