October 30, 2026 at 8:28 PM
On Backing Up Photo Library Folders Rather than Photos
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November 2, 2026 at 11:04 AM
On Backing Up Photo Library Folders Rather than Photos
--- title: description: "" date: 2026-11-02T08:39:32.612Z preview: "" draft: false tags: [] categories: [] --- For years, or even decades many of us backed photos up using Picasa, Flickr, iPhoto and other apps. We'd download photos from […]
--- title: description: "" date: 2026-11-02T08:39:32.612Z preview: "" draft: false tags: [] categories: [] --- For years, or even decades many of us backed photos up using Picasa, Flickr, iPhoto and other apps. We'd download photos from […]
Fascinating! I remember iPhoto no longer working on a newer OS - but you could right click on the app/library and then get inside and access all one’s photos. Presumably Aperture didn’t allow that?
October 28, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Fascinating! I remember iPhoto no longer working on a newer OS - but you could right click on the app/library and then get inside and access all one’s photos. Presumably Aperture didn’t allow that?
every time modern apple does something so egregious i think about two things:
the time he threw a camera during an iphoto demo
the time he came down and yelled at the guy working on the button spacing of the calendar app
so many heads would roll over the horrific spacing etc in the new oses
the time he threw a camera during an iphoto demo
the time he came down and yelled at the guy working on the button spacing of the calendar app
so many heads would roll over the horrific spacing etc in the new oses
October 27, 2026 at 8:39 PM
every time modern apple does something so egregious i think about two things:
the time he threw a camera during an iphoto demo
the time he came down and yelled at the guy working on the button spacing of the calendar app
so many heads would roll over the horrific spacing etc in the new oses
the time he threw a camera during an iphoto demo
the time he came down and yelled at the guy working on the button spacing of the calendar app
so many heads would roll over the horrific spacing etc in the new oses
Thank you. Of course I think I’m just very funny writing it on there in iPhoto
October 27, 2026 at 2:27 AM
Thank you. Of course I think I’m just very funny writing it on there in iPhoto
Through some glitch I just got an email from Apple from 24 years ago. MacOSX 10.2, .Mac, iChat, Kodak prints and Popcap games.
It still seems pretty normal, except what shocked me was all the links are just links. They contain no identifying information about the user like all email links do now
It still seems pretty normal, except what shocked me was all the links are just links. They contain no identifying information about the user like all email links do now
October 31, 2026 at 7:34 PM
Through some glitch I just got an email from Apple from 24 years ago. MacOSX 10.2, .Mac, iChat, Kodak prints and Popcap games.
It still seems pretty normal, except what shocked me was all the links are just links. They contain no identifying information about the user like all email links do now
It still seems pretty normal, except what shocked me was all the links are just links. They contain no identifying information about the user like all email links do now
Wow there's a lot going on here. 🧍
I'm sorry you met the grown man equivalent of Young Sheldon on "the gay app." especially the starry background photo.. yeah I wouldn't know what to do either 😭😭
But thank you for sharing your story. despite everything, it was funny lmfao
I'm sorry you met the grown man equivalent of Young Sheldon on "the gay app." especially the starry background photo.. yeah I wouldn't know what to do either 😭😭
But thank you for sharing your story. despite everything, it was funny lmfao
![NGL prompt: send me anonymous messages!
Question: Ooh yay I hope food was good
Ok TL;DR guy called Dom [his name] tapped me on the gay app and had 'hung' in his bio so imagine the absolute whiplash upon seeing someone dressed up like they are 12 and meeting their first girlfriend's parents and edited iPhoto style onto a starry background I died
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October 27, 2026 at 12:01 AM
Wow there's a lot going on here. 🧍
I'm sorry you met the grown man equivalent of Young Sheldon on "the gay app." especially the starry background photo.. yeah I wouldn't know what to do either 😭😭
But thank you for sharing your story. despite everything, it was funny lmfao
I'm sorry you met the grown man equivalent of Young Sheldon on "the gay app." especially the starry background photo.. yeah I wouldn't know what to do either 😭😭
But thank you for sharing your story. despite everything, it was funny lmfao
as a child i used to enjoy using iPhoto until it's monolithic database got too big for our computer to handle. I think this traumatized me in a good way
October 24, 2026 at 5:43 AM
as a child i used to enjoy using iPhoto until it's monolithic database got too big for our computer to handle. I think this traumatized me in a good way
Foto do grande fotógrafo retratista, Luiz Garrido!
Ele publicou um livro, pela editora iPhoto, onde conta a história dessa foto, além de explicar tecnicamente os equipamentos que usou para fazê-la.
Ele publicou um livro, pela editora iPhoto, onde conta a história dessa foto, além de explicar tecnicamente os equipamentos que usou para fazê-la.
October 21, 2026 at 5:42 PM
Foto do grande fotógrafo retratista, Luiz Garrido!
Ele publicou um livro, pela editora iPhoto, onde conta a história dessa foto, além de explicar tecnicamente os equipamentos que usou para fazê-la.
Ele publicou um livro, pela editora iPhoto, onde conta a história dessa foto, além de explicar tecnicamente os equipamentos que usou para fazê-la.
I don’t remember why I took this photo, my iPhoto app does it knows the time and the date (day month year)
October 21, 2026 at 10:23 PM
I don’t remember why I took this photo, my iPhoto app does it knows the time and the date (day month year)
Partly out of nostalgia brought on by iPhoto showing me my old photos from my summer in Jonquière a decade ago, and partly out of wanting to keep my French proficiency up, I'm currently on a Quebecois music binge.
October 20, 2026 at 11:39 PM
Partly out of nostalgia brought on by iPhoto showing me my old photos from my summer in Jonquière a decade ago, and partly out of wanting to keep my French proficiency up, I'm currently on a Quebecois music binge.
iPhotoライブラリからオリジナルの画像を取り出して年月別フォルダにコピーして、そこからさらに重複画像を別フォルダに選り分ける作業が完了した。これで15年前のMacBook AirでiPhotoを開かなくても見たい画像に辿りつける〜🥹
ClaudeCode…これからはクロえもんと呼ばせてください。
ClaudeCode…これからはクロえもんと呼ばせてください。
October 19, 2026 at 4:59 PM
iPhotoライブラリからオリジナルの画像を取り出して年月別フォルダにコピーして、そこからさらに重複画像を別フォルダに選り分ける作業が完了した。これで15年前のMacBook AirでiPhotoを開かなくても見たい画像に辿りつける〜🥹
ClaudeCode…これからはクロえもんと呼ばせてください。
ClaudeCode…これからはクロえもんと呼ばせてください。
-the new post dialogue could use massive improvements, especially on macOS. I think most desktop users are going to use local files, so the extra buttons for the iCloud/iPhoto upload is unnecessary. (another example from Mona App's macOS app)
October 19, 2026 at 3:28 PM
-the new post dialogue could use massive improvements, especially on macOS. I think most desktop users are going to use local files, so the extra buttons for the iCloud/iPhoto upload is unnecessary. (another example from Mona App's macOS app)
One more thing - my iPhoto carousel turned up a picture of my favourite murals in Toronto as someone in tech: the Bell Technology Mosaics on Adelaide:
October 17, 2026 at 2:35 AM
One more thing - my iPhoto carousel turned up a picture of my favourite murals in Toronto as someone in tech: the Bell Technology Mosaics on Adelaide:
Shelves
📷 Ricoh KR5 Super II
🎞️ Arista EDU Ultra 400
🧪 Caffenol
📷📲 Sony a6000+Lightbox+iPhoto
#believeinfilm
📷 Ricoh KR5 Super II
🎞️ Arista EDU Ultra 400
🧪 Caffenol
📷📲 Sony a6000+Lightbox+iPhoto
#believeinfilm
October 16, 2026 at 11:32 AM
Shelves
📷 Ricoh KR5 Super II
🎞️ Arista EDU Ultra 400
🧪 Caffenol
📷📲 Sony a6000+Lightbox+iPhoto
#believeinfilm
📷 Ricoh KR5 Super II
🎞️ Arista EDU Ultra 400
🧪 Caffenol
📷📲 Sony a6000+Lightbox+iPhoto
#believeinfilm
Years of iPhoto backups left me with 1 TB, 70k files, the same photo in 4 backups and broken dates. So I built videre: local-first, private, free software. Real duplicate detection, date repair, faces, semantic search, your own gallery. CLI + MCP for agents.
videre.sh
videre.sh
October 15, 2026 at 11:48 AM
Years of iPhoto backups left me with 1 TB, 70k files, the same photo in 4 backups and broken dates. So I built videre: local-first, private, free software. Real duplicate detection, date repair, faces, semantic search, your own gallery. CLI + MCP for agents.
videre.sh
videre.sh
Check this out! Open source library that has been very useful for me. After years of using iPhoto/iCloud, I finally eliminated my duplicates and corrected the dates on thousands of files across multiple backups. It is a local‑only and privacy‑first CLI tool. AI agents can also use it.
videre.sh
videre.sh
videre — Make sense of your media library
Find duplicates, fix dates, cluster faces, and search your media by what, where, when, and media type. Local-first: nothing is ever uploaded.
videre.sh
October 15, 2026 at 12:42 PM
Check this out! Open source library that has been very useful for me. After years of using iPhoto/iCloud, I finally eliminated my duplicates and corrected the dates on thousands of files across multiple backups. It is a local‑only and privacy‑first CLI tool. AI agents can also use it.
videre.sh
videre.sh
#ThickTrunkTuesday
📷 Yashica FX-3 w/50mm f/2
🎞️ Arista EDU Ultra 400
🧪 Caffenol
📷📲 Sony a6000+Lightbox+iPhoto
#believeinfiln
#trees
📷 Yashica FX-3 w/50mm f/2
🎞️ Arista EDU Ultra 400
🧪 Caffenol
📷📲 Sony a6000+Lightbox+iPhoto
#believeinfiln
#trees
October 14, 2026 at 1:06 AM
#ThickTrunkTuesday
📷 Yashica FX-3 w/50mm f/2
🎞️ Arista EDU Ultra 400
🧪 Caffenol
📷📲 Sony a6000+Lightbox+iPhoto
#believeinfiln
#trees
📷 Yashica FX-3 w/50mm f/2
🎞️ Arista EDU Ultra 400
🧪 Caffenol
📷📲 Sony a6000+Lightbox+iPhoto
#believeinfiln
#trees
I interviewed these several years ago and the PM fod not endorse me (the only one) bc I called him out on using FR with iPhoto on a video doorbell as a consent issue.
October 13, 2026 at 7:00 PM
I interviewed these several years ago and the PM fod not endorse me (the only one) bc I called him out on using FR with iPhoto on a video doorbell as a consent issue.
Me: Hmm, I swear I've driven through [town] and seen [thing].
My Photos archive*: Because you did it in 2012, in that 20-month span you weren't saving GPS tracks. Check your trip report diaries.
Me: D'OH
*imported from iPhoto era, before Apple decided no one needed manual geotagging anymore
My Photos archive*: Because you did it in 2012, in that 20-month span you weren't saving GPS tracks. Check your trip report diaries.
Me: D'OH
*imported from iPhoto era, before Apple decided no one needed manual geotagging anymore
October 12, 2026 at 2:25 PM
Me: Hmm, I swear I've driven through [town] and seen [thing].
My Photos archive*: Because you did it in 2012, in that 20-month span you weren't saving GPS tracks. Check your trip report diaries.
Me: D'OH
*imported from iPhoto era, before Apple decided no one needed manual geotagging anymore
My Photos archive*: Because you did it in 2012, in that 20-month span you weren't saving GPS tracks. Check your trip report diaries.
Me: D'OH
*imported from iPhoto era, before Apple decided no one needed manual geotagging anymore
just trying to get them off my phone! Apple is *evil* and won't allow you to put a wire in & move them. i got lost trying to find workarounds and flamed out trying to use iphoto and cheap thumbdrives. i am now doing a full back up to iCloud & will use laptop --> to high quality external hard drive
October 11, 2026 at 8:31 PM
just trying to get them off my phone! Apple is *evil* and won't allow you to put a wire in & move them. i got lost trying to find workarounds and flamed out trying to use iphoto and cheap thumbdrives. i am now doing a full back up to iCloud & will use laptop --> to high quality external hard drive
I wish I loved anything as much as I hate iPhoto
October 11, 2026 at 3:16 AM
I wish I loved anything as much as I hate iPhoto
Back when I worked at the Apple Store on Michigan Ave there was active planning for a store at Block 37.
It got far enough along that an update to iPhoto shipped with the store findable in the ‘Locations’ feature for mapping your photos.
Then Apple pulled out and I believe that sucked the air out.
It got far enough along that an update to iPhoto shipped with the store findable in the ‘Locations’ feature for mapping your photos.
Then Apple pulled out and I believe that sucked the air out.
Crain's reports Block 37 just sold for a fire sale $30 million. Then Mayor Richard M. Daley had pipe dreams of having Harrod's as an anchor. There was an enormous ground-breaking party back in 2005, and then the site remained a dirt pile for over a decade.
www.chicagobusiness.com/real-estate/...
www.chicagobusiness.com/real-estate/...
October 7, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Back when I worked at the Apple Store on Michigan Ave there was active planning for a store at Block 37.
It got far enough along that an update to iPhoto shipped with the store findable in the ‘Locations’ feature for mapping your photos.
Then Apple pulled out and I believe that sucked the air out.
It got far enough along that an update to iPhoto shipped with the store findable in the ‘Locations’ feature for mapping your photos.
Then Apple pulled out and I believe that sucked the air out.
labeling a photo of my dog in iPhoto: cute pic holtz outside smiling
autocorrect: cute pic holtz outside smoking
autocorrect: cute pic holtz outside smoking
October 7, 2026 at 12:12 AM
labeling a photo of my dog in iPhoto: cute pic holtz outside smiling
autocorrect: cute pic holtz outside smoking
autocorrect: cute pic holtz outside smoking
October 7, 2026 at 12:20 AM