I keep losing original files, what am I doing wrong?
I'm running OSX 10.3 on my Powerbook G3. (Classic is still on the computer too) I have a basic problem of not understanding how my documents (or pictures) and alias' are interconnected. Multiple times I have accidentally erased all copies of a file after trashing what I thought was a copy or backup of that file. This has happened when trying to clean up old versions of text files, when trying to organize in iphoto, and even when deleting backup copies of my Quicken files. I've lost all of my edited photos twice, lost the most recent 4 months of my Quicken checkbook. There is a basic Mac concept I'm not getting here, so I keep thinking it is easier for me to go back to using a PC so I dont mess up. Any advice?
Hi needtheanswers
Welcome to discussions.
I am sorry you are losing files by accidentally trashing the wrong ones, but i would like to know more why you have such heavy use of aliases.
I use IPhoto 2 and I don't deal with aliases.
The iPhoto Library in the Pictures folder is exclusively for iPhoto to manage the images that appear in the application. If you interfere with any of the files in there, any files indexed there may be lost.
After importing photos into iPhoto, they reside nestled within folders organised by year.
If you want to make Duplicates of any, choose Export and define the location. eg. Pictures/Backups/Photos, or onto an external drive, it can be anywhere.
If you delete a photo its record remains to keep the library file coherent, but the photo is deleted.
If your edit a photo, iPhoto keeps the original in a Folder called Original ( which is pretty original) and adds the edited photo to the folder.
There is no need to even open the Picture/iPhoto Library, except for curiosity.
It doesn't create alias', but could you tell me in more detail, the sort of things you do with iPhoto, whether to make backup (duplicates) and how these result in aliases.
You can always check if a file is an alias by selecting it, clicking Command + i to open the information window, which will tell you many things about the file including whether it is an alias.
I don't have experience with Quicken.
regards roam
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