For making iPhoto both very useful and very stupid.
I’ve been putting my computer through the wringer lately, doing massive downloads and all kinds of other hard drive intensive stuff, and it was starting to show. I thought I’d do the sensible thing – back up the important stuff, reformat the drive, reload the OS and keep the drive fairly free of clutter.
Sounds simple, right?
Well, it was – and it is – except for one thing.
iPhoto
Now, don’t get me wrong. I like iPhoto. I really do. It’s a great way to catalog tons of images and keep them all nicely sorted. When I backed up my hard drive, I just copied off the entire photo library folder and kept all the data together. Good move?
It should have been.
Every other part of the backup/format/reload process went smooth as can be. I reinstalled iPhoto and copied my pictures folder right back where it had been before, to make it easy for iPhoto to find it and let me get at all my pictures again.
Of course, it didn’t work out that way.
Instead, what I got was iPhoto telling me I had no photos. Huh?!? I’ve got nearly 1,000 photos! I can go to the hard drive and see them, but iPhoto can’t. When I told it where they were, it said, “okay,” then proceeded to tell me there weren’t any there.
Swell.
Now I get to to and copy all the pictures back into iPhoto, one directory at a time. (Which takes a long time, since iPhoto puts everything in a directory according to the day the photos were taken. Took photos every day in January? That means you’ve got 31 folders to go and get your pics from.)
Thanks a bunch…
Today’s entry was supposed to be the weird models from the Hobby Fair I went to in Tokyo. Obviously, I need the photos for that. Sure, I could’ve dug around and found the ones I wanted, but that’d be a real pain. So, you get this rant instead. Freaky models will be tomorrow’s bit, provided I get all the pictures loaded back into iPhoto.
I’m up to February 2nd now. >.<