No fuss automatic indexing instead of problematic manual importing.
After I’ve shot the photos, I first store them into a digital wallet as my main storage. I then import them with iPhoto (preciously copying the folder into a PC) from the digital wallet to make sure they all work fine before I delete them from the flash RAM. That way, my digital wallet is actually also a backup with which I don’t burn CD/DVD for backup any more. When the digital wallet is full, I’ll just switch the harddisk within the digital wallet with a new one and put the one full of photos into a plain external case for keeps. This saves CD/DVD burning time as well as searching time in the future. Also, no more unreadable CD/DVD which I’ve got quite a few already from my 4 year CD-ROM photo collection. In a couple of years, I’ll just copy the HD into newer bigger HD as second backup copy when they become more affordable.
It took me a while, but I had actually gotten used to this procedure of photo file importing with iPhoto until a couple of days ago when I imported a set of photos taken with an older DC only to find out afterwards that the date and time was off by a month.
That set of photos was sorted in the middle of the iPhoto Library instead of being the latest photos. I had to Google for a utility to change the modified date attribute of the files, delete the thumbnails from the Library, move the file to the correct folder, only to find out when I try to re-import them to iPhoto, it just would not do it for iPhoto no longer recognize them as any supported photo format even when Finder and all other photo browsers see them without any problem. How stupid…
“Mabellene, why can’t you be true?”. While iTune is such a sleek application for audio files, I can’t understand why iPhoto has to be so clumsy.
Here is another iPhoto user’s opinion…
WhaUSay?!