OUCH, I just learned a valuable Mac lesson. In Windows and Ubuntu Land, I pop my camera memory card into the computer and drag the folder with the photos onto the desktop. I did that with The Airness. Then after I take more pictures, I do that again. Well, boys and girls, in PC/Linux Land – your old pictures remain. Not so with the Mac. It REPLACES the old folder with the new one. Completely and totally deleting any other pictures that were in the folder. So, I just lost 15 pictures. I am thinking that 14 of them are in “The Time Machine” – but one in lost forever. It was today’s Fall View from the balcony. No big loss. Big lesson learned at little cost. And, we’ll see if that time machine thingie works.
But, today’s main event was a trek downtown to take in the Gay Rights March. I am sure there were some ugly homophobic protesters somewhere. I only encountered thousands of cheery marchers.
Ouch, hard Mac lesson.
Pam and I use Adobe Bridge — so when you plug in the camera (or card) it prompts you for the meta data for the image set, and then asks if you want to delete the originals after importing them. Bridge creates folders for each date. Apple’s iPhoto works similarly, but with simpler options.
I’ve aslo played some with Google’s free Picasa (http://picasa.google.com/mac/) and it has many cool features including auto tagging via facial recognition, and geo tagging.