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Can you copy the photos library file to the external drive if you’re moving to a new Mac? That will preserve your albums, edits, etc.
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Not moving to a new Mac. Not yet at least, so exports are the way to go. I was hoping for something more elegant than command A and dragging but it'll do. Can't really believe I'm selling this thing for a quarter of what I paid for it 9 years ago. Macs stand the test of time pretty well. I did upgrade to an SSD though, no way the mechanical drive was going to last that long.
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Dec 17, 2020 21:21
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What could be more elegant than dragging and dropping?
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Dec 17, 2020 21:40
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Data Graham posted:Jesus christ Apple I know nobody's on tenterhooks for an update about this issue but it appears to be working just fine now. I guess I wasn't the only one who noticed after all
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Dec 17, 2020 21:55
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One thing to keep in mind if you drag and drop from Photos, I’m not sure it properly preserves Live Photos if that’s a big deal for you. It might now on HEIC but I’m not certain
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Dec 17, 2020 22:13
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Quantum of Phallus posted:One thing to keep in mind if you drag and drop from Photos, I’m not sure it properly preserves Live Photos if that’s a big deal for you. It might now on HEIC but I’m not certain Hmm, good point. Last time I did an export I think those had to be exported as movies.
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Dec 17, 2020 23:00
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American McGay posted:What could be more elegant than dragging and dropping? an 'export photos to folder' option? a detailed transfer window that tells you transfer speed and estimated time remaining instead of a 20x20 pixel pie chart in the upper corner of the photos app? I like MacOS but they really hate giving you information like this. when they first made that change I think I exported a video from Final Cut like 10 times wondering what the gently caress it was doing before I noticed the pie-chart and then the queue of 10 exports that were choking the CPU. e:my concern is that exporting 30GB+ of photos will probably have to be done in batches because if it hangs or crashes I wont know where it got up to and will have to start again. theres no detailed error or log of what is/was completed. Laserface fucked around with this message at 23:24 on Dec 17, 2020 |
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Dec 17, 2020 23:19
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A lot of "ideal world" UIs just completely forget to take into account processing time, and just assume they exist in a universe where all actions take place instantaneously And persist in this assumption years past the time when you are using drag-and-drop to copy 43,011,233 files totalling 5.6 TB from one external drive to another in the Finder
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Dec 17, 2020 23:22
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The whitespace overload of big sur is a lot more palatable on a 4k screen IMO. It's actually quite an improvement IMO. Probably not so on 13".
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Dec 17, 2020 23:42
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I mean, what's your end goal for all the photos? If you've moving to Google Photos or some other dedicated system there'll probably be a dedicated import app that preserves albums and everything
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Dec 18, 2020 00:05
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TACD posted:I mean, what's your end goal for all the photos? If you've moving to Google Photos or some other dedicated system there'll probably be a dedicated import app that preserves albums and everything I just want the photos dumped out onto my NAS. I havent really got another solution for managing them so I will explore options later. Im moving to a Dell XPS running win10, but would like to keep it platform agnostic as possible so I can switch back to a macbook later on. Ideally I'd like the albums to be maintained on export but if thats not possible I can just do it folder by folder. I mostly organise photos by event and then a dump of my icloud photos off my phone for each year. come to think of it, its probably way more than 30GB since theres photos from back whne I had an iphone 4 in there.
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Dec 18, 2020 00:15
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Can't you just move your entire ~/Pictures/Photos Library.photoslibrary package to whatever new destination you like, or have they changed up how that works in later versions?
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Dec 18, 2020 03:29
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Tippis posted:Can't you just move your entire ~/Pictures/Photos Library.photoslibrary package to whatever new destination you like, or have they changed up how that works in later versions? Can you get the individual photos from that? I think that’s what they were looking to do
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Dec 18, 2020 03:51
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I mean, if you just want the photos on an external drive, that should do it in a single operation — you can always dig through it and pick out the individual photos later, or just open it up on a different computer and keep adding to the pile. But again, that's assuming they haven't done like with some other apps and hidden all the actual content in a sandboxed container for some reason.
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Dec 18, 2020 03:56
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Tippis posted:I mean, if you just want the photos on an external drive, that should do it in a single operation — you can always dig through it and pick out the individual photos later, or just open it up on a different computer and keep adding to the pile. But again, that's assuming they haven't done like with some other apps and hidden all the actual content in a sandboxed container for some reason. I do not like my chances of my photos.app library being viewable on a windows computer.
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Dec 18, 2020 04:30
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Don’t windows computers just transparently show MacOS packages as folders? I swear my FCP libraries are just folders with xmls and the raw media files to my desktop.
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Dec 18, 2020 05:52
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tuyop posted:Don’t windows computers just transparently show MacOS packages as folders? I swear my FCP libraries are just folders with xmls and the raw media files to my desktop. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8408162 turns out that I was making a (reasonably safe) assumption that was incorrect. I might do a dump of the library to my NAS and then keep the library 'file' on an external SSD or something should I come back to Mac. this is a good thing, I genuinely would have thought that it wasnt possible to view it, although there is lots of edits and it doesnt seem to just give you the 'edit' of the photo in the location of the original, its in another folder.
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Dec 18, 2020 07:08
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Why not just migrate it to lightroom, which works on both? Theres a method of doing it, and fromthere you could just move the library and the files Adobe is a gently caress but at least it works on several platforms and lightroom is at least somewhat supported.
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Dec 18, 2020 10:31
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I finally got around to upgrading my MBP to Big Sur and I have a Siri question: is macOS Siri still the aggressively awful desktop version, or do we get access to iOS Siri now?
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Dec 18, 2020 11:26
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+1 for Lightroom for this (very specific) case
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Dec 18, 2020 14:21
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Okay what I want to know is why macos' multi monitor support is so bad and what I can do to make it work better. "displays have separate spaces" OFF: mostly what I want, where you can have windows in between the two monitors, but youtube fullscreen on one monitor blacks out the other monitor. "displays have separate spaces" ON: can't have windows between two monitors, and it just cuts off the window at the border. all I want is to be able to have windows between the monitors, but also be able to watch videos and use the second monitor at the same time. I don't even care about having a menu on the second monitor or anything.
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Dec 19, 2020 10:07
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Just upgraded to Big Sur last night and have been getting familiar with the changes. Two things: does anyone know how to remove the "Favorites" category on the left menu in the default Mail app? I don't have any favorite folders but it still displays the word taking up space. Also, is there a way to make the sidecar/handoff icon appear on the left side of the dock again? I'm assuming the right side is the way Apple wants it now just wondering if there was a way to change it back.
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Dec 19, 2020 14:16
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most of us have probably seen some of the little easter eggs/attention to detail apple packs into its icons and design, but i discovered this in the mail.app icon today (noticed it when i accidentally set my 4k display to scale at 1080p) they pay attention to the little details even if nobody might see them
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Dec 19, 2020 15:10
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Have a Logitech G305 where the forward/back buttons work in web browsing, but not Finder or anywhere else. There are a number of back-button enhancement tools for getting these to work more universally, which one is regarded as the best?
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Dec 19, 2020 20:02
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Happy_Misanthrope posted:Have a Logitech G305 where the forward/back buttons work in web browsing, but not Finder or anywhere else. There are a number of back-button enhancement tools for getting these to work more universally, which one is regarded as the best? p sure bettertouchtool will let you do that
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Dec 19, 2020 23:07
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Two quick questions. First. Is there an FPS counter similar to FRAPS? I am trying to run some benchmarks but I can't find any software to check it. Second. Since Rosetta 2 is emulating x86 why couldn't it also emulate the 32 bit stuff?
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Dec 20, 2020 06:53
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MarcusSA posted:Two quick questions. 32 bit app support was dropped in the version prior so this is consistent with that. i think the best explanation you're going to get as to why that happened is something to do with dropping legacy cruft, or being a precursor to rosetta 2 so they wouldn't have to include 32 bit support in it which would prolong development
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Dec 20, 2020 17:27
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Generic Monk posted:32 bit app support was dropped in the version prior so this is consistent with that. i think the best explanation you're going to get as to why that happened is something to do with dropping legacy cruft, or being a precursor to rosetta 2 so they wouldn't have to include 32 bit support in it which would prolong development Yeah that makes sense. Still would have been cool though! Anyone know anything about an FPS monitor? This M1 graphics chip is pretty drat legit.
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Dec 20, 2020 21:30
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Hello Spaceman posted:p sure bettertouchtool will let you do that Thanks, just can't get it to recognize the back/forward buttons though. Consistent back/forward control and screen recording with output audio (as in, not installing a $60 kernel extension) are my two annoyances since moving to OSX atm.
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Dec 21, 2020 23:52
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MarcusSA posted:Yeah that makes sense. Still would have been cool though! Count It
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Dec 22, 2020 00:21
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Ok thanks! I saw this before but it looked kinda sketch so I didn’t install it. I’ll check it out tonight though!
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Dec 22, 2020 00:36
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Has anyone else had an issue with iMessage alerts on Big Sur (11.1) coming in with no contact info? The alert has the contact's phone number but the Messages app itself has their names - address book seems synced up, too.
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Dec 22, 2020 04:34
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Happy Pizza Guy posted:Has anyone else had an issue with iMessage alerts on Big Sur (11.1) coming in with no contact info? The alert has the contact's phone number but the Messages app itself has their names - address book seems synced up, too. I get that, too. I saw somewhere that it’s some issue with Contacts syncing. Forcing a sync might work. System Preferences > Apple ID > iCloud. Uncheck Contacts. Close, wait a few minutes, go back and check Contacts. I think this worked for me the last time.
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Dec 22, 2020 12:22
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I'm making the switch to iCloud and need to transfer about 100gb of random files over from Google Drive. Should I just drag and drop them in Finder or is there a better way, some sort of app or official process?
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Dec 22, 2020 16:13
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FCKGW posted:I'm making the switch to iCloud and need to transfer about 100gb of random files over from Google Drive. can you use something like rsync? man I hope you have fios or something
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Dec 22, 2020 16:26
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FCKGW posted:I'm making the switch to iCloud and need to transfer about 100gb of random files over from Google Drive. Drag and drop in chunks with the Google Drive folder mounted
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Dec 22, 2020 19:29
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Hi thread. I have a real basic dumb question. Is there a way to turn off the mandatory "enter your password" that pops up when I login every 24 hours or whatever? I'd rather it keep using my watch or touchID. It also seems to kill the whole purpose of having those two things. And I'm lazy.
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Dec 22, 2020 20:23
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I got a hankering to play the old Super Nintendo game Front Mission and I haven't used an emulator in years. Now that I'm on Big Sur, SNES9X doesn't work. Is there a recommended SNES emulator that works with Big Sur? I found one called RetroArch but it wanted to record keystrokes from other applications so I shitcanned it before I ran it.
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Dec 24, 2020 02:19
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GATOS Y VATOS posted:I got a hankering to play the old Super Nintendo game Front Mission and I haven't used an emulator in years. Now that I'm on Big Sur, SNES9X doesn't work. Is there a recommended SNES emulator that works with Big Sur? I found one called RetroArch but it wanted to record keystrokes from other applications so I shitcanned it before I ran it. openemu's fantastic and has snes9x as one of the available cores for snes emulation. also great for p much any other 80's-90's system
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GATOS Y VATOS posted:I got a hankering to play the old Super Nintendo game Front Mission and I haven't used an emulator in years. Now that I'm on Big Sur, SNES9X doesn't work. Is there a recommended SNES emulator that works with Big Sur? I found one called RetroArch but it wanted to record keystrokes from other applications so I shitcanned it before I ran it. What Thauros said Haven's tried it on Big Sur, but OpenEMU http://openemu.org/ worked great under Catalina, and looks to work under Big Sur. It ran anything I threw at it. Check out the "experimental" and "unsupported" arcade systems - https://github.com/OpenEmu/OpenEmu/wiki
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