Re: Drag and Drop from Photos
Re: Drag and Drop from Photos
- Subject: Re: Drag and Drop from Photos
- From: Steve Mills <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2015 23:44:10 -0500
On Apr 25, 2015, at 23:33:10, Ken Thomases <email@hidden> wrote:
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> Promised files are strange and problematic in a couple of ways. First, the destination specifies where the files are to be created. The source only supplies file names (no path).
Ken has explained it very nicely. I was also about to post that you need to use namesOfPromisedFilesDroppedAtDestination: so the files will be created there for you. It’s too bad Apple went this direction with Photos when iPhoto was perfectly capable of just giving you the URLs of the existing files. I supposed it’s because Apple seems to be pushing using iCloud Photo Library so hard, so there’s a good chance that many photos might need to go through a lengthy download process before you can use them in a dropped app. This is a very unfortunate direction. But the really sucky part is that they didn’t even offer actual URLs for Photos’ files if the user doesn’t use that goofy feature and the files are right there! In fact, you can’t even Reveal Original any more. If you want to do something with a photo in Photos, you’re at the mercy of the app, which thinks it knows a lot more about what you want to do than you do. You can Export Unmodified Original, but it gives you no chance to change its name. Crappy UI, that. It’s the worst Apple app I’ve seen since that iMovie fiasco a few years back. I already reported 3 bugs/design flaws in the first half hour of trying to figure out how to use Photos. At least Apple must’ve known it was going to suck, so they don’t delete iPhoto off your drive. I hope more people will complain to Apple and report bugs/flaws in Photos.
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Steve Mills
Drummer, Mac geek
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