Re: iPhoto returns a real number as a photo ID
Re: iPhoto returns a real number as a photo ID
- Subject: Re: iPhoto returns a real number as a photo ID
- From: CYB <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:06:56 -0500
- Thread-topic: iPhoto returns a real number as a photo ID
Title: Re: iPhoto returns a real number as a photo ID
Rob, that is exactly the reason that I never use iPhoto, this application sucks.
it makes multiple copies, metadata is a pain, and AppleScript, as we use to see in Apple applications is very bad implemented.
As a photographer, I avoid Apple applications, iPhoto Aperture etc.
So why you use this, what do you need to do?
Maybe it’s time to move to another more reliable solution.
if you describe what do you need…
Carlos Ysunza
Photographer
Rob wrote:
Aaargh. I'm tempted to say forget the whole thing, especially after being informed that you can't even depend on a photo's "id" property to remain the same from one run to the next. What's the point then? How great it would be if iPhoto/AppleScript would simply use the industry-standard Exif tag, ImageUniqueID.
I'm increasingly frustrated and dismayed by the lame and inconsistent ways that Apple's apps handle (or fail to handle) metadata. Another example: a user can spend a lot of time adding metadata tags to an image file. Then import the file into iPhoto and make any edit (crop, rotate, etc.). This will result in the creation of a "Modified" copy of the file with--surprise!--much of the laboriously applied metadata simply gone. Email a photo to a friend: metadata gone.
Apple is a member of the Metadata Working Group (metadataworkinggroup.org <http://metadataworkinggroup.org> ) yet it doesn't follow the group's recommendations. And sadly, the group has apparently left loopholes in the spec to allow some of this bad behavior to continue--at the expense of users and third parties. (I know Apple isn't the only guilty party, but trying to use AppleScript and metadata is a recipe for frustration.)
</rant>
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