Is iPhoto really right for me???

Hello,
Not used a Mac since 1996 (5200). Intel has brought me back & so has Final Cut Studio.
Now...I have 44 years worth of scanned/electronic pics...all JPG's now. Over 40,000 pictures!!! I need FULL CONTROL over these just like I have on my VAIO. Also, I DON'T want to store these pics on my laptop or home drives...only on my raid & raid backup.
These pics are perfectly organized & I don't need a piece of software to change my folders. I scanned 38 years worth in 2000 so all of these even from 1962 are dated year 2000. Importing into iPhoto was a mess. Definately a novice program. Is there a way to have FULL control with this program? I DON'T need thumbnails. If not, please send me to another program...or they will ONLY be viewed on a PC platform from now on. There is now 44 folders with 12 montly subfolders for each month on the PC platform...& I want to keep them in their respective folders.
Reason for using A program. Viewing,printing, modifying, pictures...with slideshows. I'd like to have the pic name under every pic...if wanted while viewing. Should I trash iPhoto....OR, can I make it work...otherwise these MACS will only see moving pictures with FCP>
ggree
MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.7)
MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.7)
MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Thanks for the response! I see that the people of Hawaii are really using Mac. I would like to hang up this PC thing (like I thought would happen 10 years ago), but, as long as these programs are packaged separately, I would be forced to replace all of my busines stuff.
You are right about the slideshow. But, is there a way NOT to have to select all the photos to get a contact sheet for each folder...then show them in the order I want by just clicking an arrow. XP allows you to go through each pic WITHOUT having to select all. Also, when you have a pic icon instead of list, you will see the shift button will not help you select all. In normal icon/list mode the shift however does work.
This goes back to ease of use of Mac software. It is my opinion that Microsoft is working harder, but Mac is not. The drop down menus for the most basic things sometimes take forever to find in many mac programs.
Take for instance Final Cut Pro (the reason I HAD to buy a Mac). If you lose a window, you can go back to the top and select View:Standard. Sounds easy huh...I have used this command so many times & every single time I do, it is hard to find. My wife pulls her hair out every time she loses a window & has to use this command. It is so BASIC...very needed...why isn't it at the top?(no I still refuse to memorize these keyboard shortcuts...takes up too much of my brain memory...also reminds me of DOS!!!)
As far as me being a power user...OK...I expect very much from all of the new programs. I try to use every feature of not just the programs but the operating system also. Computers are still too complicated for the general public. Working for IBM from '83-85, I should be able to figure all of this out...however, even for me & my internet help, it takes days...even for basic functions (PC & MAC). I stopped writing code in the 80's because it was getting so good commercially....however, I am seeing a slow down in ease of use. Computers are still too complicated...if you don't think so, try losing a .DLL file some time...OUCH!!!
One more thing...the cross platform stuff like MS office...Mac & PC files still don't mesh perfectly. Also, why doesn't Mac feel the need to write to NTFS...it is NICE that we can read it now though. Fat 32...4 GB limit really hurts in these big video files.
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Just sent the following to Apple's iPhoto Feedback; figured I'd post same here just for the heck of it. Many of these feature requests might only apply to my particular (and peculiar?) workflow, but I suspect at least a few of them might strike an empathetic chord...
One User's iPhoto Wish List:
Your first priority is to contact the creators of iPhoto Diet and iPhoto Library Manager, pay them lots of money for their work, and then incorporate all the features of their shareware apps into iPhoto itself.
This would add to iPhoto features it should have had for a long time now, including:
1) An option to delete unrotated originals.
It's silly to take up space on a hard drive with copies of files whose only difference is that one is correctly rotated and the other is not. Give us the choice to dispense with the unrotated ones.
2) An option to delete the originals for any selected file(s).
I know that "always keeping a copy of the original" is a sacred cornerstone of the iPhoto app, but SOMETIMES, after I've edited, resized, or done whatever to a given file, I feel I've created the new master file, and I truly really honestly would like the ability to just dispose of the now redundant original and get the space back on my hard drive.
(If this sounds like giving the user of a "consumer app" too much control, by all means bury this kind of option behind all the Advanced Tabs and all the Warning Dialogs you want -- but please at least give us the option to manage what we ultimately keep or don't keep in our iPhoto Libraries.)
3) Ways to manage multiple libraries on multiple machines with multiple users.
I have a 12GB (and growing) iPhoto Library on my G5 PowerMac. My wife's G5 iMac has a subset of that Library (about half the size), with the same Roll designations, Comments info, and Keyword assignments, along with some of the same Albums plus some unique Albums. I use iPhoto Library Manager to do this, but I should be able to do it using iPhoto itself.
Especially since the introduction of OS X, Apple has encouraged the notion of multiple users on multiple Macs. iPhoto needs to embrace that world view, and make the sharing and management of multiple iPhoto Libraries, even different versions of the same Library on different machines, a fluid, user-friendly, and fully-integrated process. For instance, I should be able to select which images, Rolls, and/or Albums from my Library get copied to my wife's machine (with all Comments, Roll info and Keywords intact) -- AND whether or not those copies include the corresponding original files or not.
Other features iPhoto needs:
4) Ability to correct and change the actual EXIF date/time info.
One example: It is extremely common to get jpegs from other users who haven't bothered to correctly set the date/time menu on their digital cameras. You want to correct that info, but if you do that in iPhoto's Info pane, and then Export that image and in turn Import it into another iPhoto Library, the Date/Time reverts back to the original INCORRECT setting. This is really annoying, and I feel like it's insulting my intelligence. (When I change the date of a photo, THAT'S the date I should now be able to search for by using the calendar mode, NOT its incorrect "creation" date.)
The current workaround of having to export the file, use another app like Graphic Converter to really change the exif data, then re-import into iPhoto (after first deleting the originals), then recreate all your Comments and Album arrangements, is clumsy, time-consuming, and when you think about it, absurd.
PLEASE consider a User Pref to the effect of "Changing Date/Time info changes original exif data as well"? You could have it unchecked as the default; you could have all sorts of "do you really want to do that?" warnings pop up when a user does check it -- but please just give us the option!
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Give us the choice to NOT create a dupe original when a file is viewed in an external editor but no changes are made; likewise when just rotating an image within iPhoto.
6) Better sorting/display options.
I display my library in Rolls (each Roll being pictures taken on a particular day or at a particular event). I'd like the ability to designate how files are sorted within a particular Roll -- the pictures in some Rolls sorted by file name, the pictures in other Rolls sorted by Date & Time.
Would also like to be able to insert dividers in the Source pane to separate some of my albums into different groups, as well as a way to set bookmarks or placeholders within a Library, as a quick shortcut to an often-viewed section for example.
7) More e-mail attachment options.
Within each of the Small, Medium, Large, and Actual Size choices, there should also be (perhaps under an Advanced tab) a sliding scale of jpg quality, with an instant feedback showing what the total file size will be at that particular setting.
Also, there should be four checkboxes: one for Image Name, one for Date, one for Time, and especially one for Comments -- allowing the user to determine which of those four bits of iPhoto info are included in the e-mail attachment along with the image itself.
8) Option to have Comments included in Captions for online albums.
Those same four checkboxes also need to be options for any kind online album posting. It's crazy that right now I can't put up an iWeb photo page that automatically includes the Comments I've taken the time to enter in iPhoto as part of that photo's Caption online.
9) Option to show file extension in Title
Including or not including the .jpg or .psd or .gif extension is an option when Exporting a file; why not when displaying it as well?
10) Option to "show all layers" of an imported Photoshop file.
Or any kind of layered file which has been imported into the iPhoto Library.
11) Ability to enter partial dates.
It often happens when you import an older scanned photo into your library (or even when you're just sent a recent photo from a friend), you don't know know the exact date and/or time the picture was originally taken. iPhoto really needs a way to enter partial, approximate or estimated dates -- just the month/year without a specific day, for example -- both in the Info pane AND in Batch Change mode.
(Also wouldn't mind a user pref option to display the Time without the seconds.)
12) Ability to Import pictures into an already selected Roll.
There are many times when I'd like to be able to select a particular Roll, then Import some new pics directly into that Roll -- rather than doing the Import, then having to drag the images sometimes several months back in time to drop them into the correct Roll.
13) Ability to delete files from an Album and the Library simultaneously.
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14) Built-in support for doing INCREMENTAL back-ups of either your entire Library -- or only the files from selected Albums -- to another hard drive.
I hope that most of these features have already been incorporated into the next release of iPhoto -- and if not, that you'll give serious consideration to implementing them as soon as possible. Your users will thank you.
John Bertram
Toronto

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How would I give this wish to apple?
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http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphoto.html
Many of the major Apple apps have this direct menu link; for others you can just go to http://www.apple.com/feedback/ and navigate from there.
They claim to actually pay attention to this kind of user input; and I've heard people say it actually does affect how the development and implementation of new features get prioritized.
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pointone wrote:
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