My Positive experience with iPhoto 6 (so far)

I just purchased iPhoto 6 from my local Apple store and have installed it with no problems. I have played around with the new editing views (full screen and compare) . I have played with creating a calendar, card and book. To my amazement I have had no crashes (trying to find some real wood furniture to knock on ...)
I have 2939 photos with most of them having been edited so the real number of photos is more like 7,000. I am using a iMac G5 20" with 2Gb ram.
I have not noticed a real improvement in speed and actually it is a bit slower when scrolling through the library with the scroll wheel on my mouse. But the new feature that shows the date of the pictures you are viewing is cool. This function only happens when you use the slider on the right of the pictures.
Overall I really like it and the new features such as iWeb look cool and I look forward to using it since I have a .mac account. The ability to make calendars and greeting cards is cool

Sounds good. I have the same set-up and was concerned after reading a number of entries on this discussion group. I have iPhoto 5 at the moment.
were you upgrading from 5?

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My positive experience with FCPX.

In an effort to present the other side of the coin on this forum, that FCPX can work very well, here is my story.
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I use an upgraded 2012 MacBook Pro with 16GB memory and a Seagate Hybrid XT disc for my more "beefy" projects but I've found my 2011 MacBook Air works great with smaller projects (4GB RAM and 256GB SSD). Interesting article on fcp.co about MBAs and FCPX if anyone is considering purchasing one.
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Hi, me too I have an overall positi've experience with my player.
As mentioned in a similar thread some week(s) ago, you have to realise that for most people, there are 2 reasons to come to (or search for) a product forum like this
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Hello everyone. I just purchased my first Mac, a Mini, last week and I'm trying to learn how iPhoto works. I've been able to import picturs from my NAS (network attached storage) drive which holds all our photos, music and videos.
However, when I took pictures over the weekend, I wanted to put them on the NAS as well and have them automatically import into iPhoto. I like that iPhoto lets you put a description about the pictures, but I can't find a way to type a description and then set iPhoto to save the pictures to my NAS drive.
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With my old PC, it allowed me to pick where I wanted my photos stored and what name I would like to call the pictures and then it named them all in succession automatically. Will iPhoto do this and if so, how do I do that? And how do I enter descriptions about my old photos to make them easier to find during a search?
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John
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What format is that NAS? iPhoto does not sit happily on disks that are not formatted for Mac OS X (journalled). You will find issues with saving changes to the db and with sharing pics among other apps.
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4. Test the library and when you're sure all is well, trash the one on your internal HD to free up space.
With my old PC, it allowed me to pick where I wanted my photos stored and what name I would like to call the pictures and then it named them all in succession automatically. Will iPhoto do t
No. For a start, filenames have no relevance in iPhoto - it's all about visual organisation. You can attach titles, keywords and comments to pics, of course, and can add them to the File on export.
If you want to set the pics in a spot, then do that with the Finder and thereafter import them. You can use a batch file renamer such as FileList to rename the files prior to import.
and telling iPhoto to not import duplicates.
Using a Referenced rather than a Managed library means that iPhoto will not copy the files, but rather simply reference them on your HD. It will create an alias to the Original file, a thumbnail and, if you modify the pics, a Modified version.
However, you need to be aware of a number of potential pitfalls using this system.
1. Import and deleting pics are more complex procedures
2. You cannot move or rename the files on your system or iPhoto will lose track of them
3. Most importantly, migrating to a new disk or computer can be much more complex.
Always allowing for personal preference, I've yet to see a good reason to run iPhoto in referenced mode unless you're using two photo organisers.
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By all means post again if you need more info.
Regards
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TS3899 1st apple purchase (5c), not a positive experience. Email set up, counter shows 128 emails. Actually have 2. Counter will increase but never goes below 128. What gives?

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Hello,
my iPhone broke down, and in Belgium all warranty claims have to go via Mobistar/ Dynafix.
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Since I bought my iPhone last summer, my vibration-function was very loud. I wasn't aware that this was abnormal until I heard a colleague's iPhone vibrating much softer, more than half a year later.
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I sent emails to Dynafix, but their replies were not covering the point (as if they only read half of the mail).
I called and mailed Apple and Mobistar too, and both ends advised me to send letters, because there were much more similar complaints.
So that's what I'm going to do tomorrow.
It's really really sad, because this rules out buying new iPhones from Mobistar, because as long as they have a contract with Dynafix, you have an almost certain chance of being scr*wed by the repair company.
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I finally got my system together after receiving a replacement board from MSI.
The original board, an msi k7t pro2-a rev 1, was faulty in which the voltage regulator was bad(?).
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I have tried to live with iPhoto '08 for three months but this relationship is not working out. I would like to replace it with iPhoto '06 or move to Lightroom as my primary image library.
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hidektol:
You can go back as Thomas Wolf once said. (Actually he said you can't go home again). The organizational files, i.e. database files, of V7 is different from V6. All you can do is create a new iPhoto 6 library and import the Originals folder from the current library. iPhoto 6 should be able to interface with the newer iApps.
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