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January 2, 2015
Cleaning up the iPhone Photos
Every so often, my iphone fills up with photos, and I can never really remember how to get them off of the phone. The truth is that I'm way behind the technology curve. So I found my notes from last time:
Clearing Files off of iPhone 4S and MacBook Air
So, first of all, I hooked my iPhone up to my MacBook. It launches iPhoto. I tell it to import the new photos only into folder "iPhone 2014". Then asks to delete from the iPhone, so I delete from iPhone.
Now, I go into my MacBook Air, and look in iPhoto 11. I see the photos in "Last Import", but here is where Apple grabs you by the ears and skull-fucks you. Here's where you want to smash the fucking Apple. It didn't create me a new "Event". And, you can't just rename the "Last Import" to something meaningful. So, you look in your Events Library, and the photos aren't there.
If I select the Photos library, I do see them in there as "1/2/2015 Aug 26, 2014 - Jan 2, 2015". So, I didn't lose them, apparently. But I still hate Apple.
I still want for them to be in an Event in iPhoto though.
So, I go to Event - Create Event. I can select "Create Event from Flagged Photos", or "Add Flagged Photos to Selected Event", but I can't "Create Event from Selected Photos". Nice.
OK. This says to select my photos and then click on "Create Event". Only, it doesn't work. Nice. Very nice. I know why Steve Jobs was cremated. Because he didn't want legions of disillusioned followers exhuming his grave and pouring pig fat into his hollow eye sockets.
OK. So, this says the same thing...for iPhoto 11, select the Photos, then select "Events - Create Event" in iPhoto 11. OK. I see...there's a fucking bug....if I select the last photo, then "Create Event" isn't an option. Nice.
Now, it warns me "Create New Event - A photo can only appear in one Event at a time. The new Event will ove the selected photos from existing Events." But it's not clear to me that they're currently in an event so...yeah...ok...how about a nice big cup of STFU?
I click "Create". I'm not sure what it did, if anything. OK. So, there's a bug. I select 573 of the 574 photos, and select Create Event. And it creates a new event with the one photo in it that I didn't select. Nice. I did this a few times before I figured it out. So, I was slowly culling out, one photo at a time, into new, untitled Events.
But, what I finally realized is that, when I'm in the Library - Photos, it's showing me the Event name for each one of my Events. You can rename the Events by clicking on them. Duh. Finally, I see the light. Lord I hate Apple.
Now, I want to see how much free space I have on the iPhone.
Settings - General - Usage
Storage: 8.2 GB Available
Photos & Camera 1.6 GB
Click on Photos & Camera
Camera Roll 1.6 GB
ICLOUD
Total Storage 5.0 GB
Available 5.0 GB
2.3 gig is in the camera roll.
So, now I want to delete these photos, but I'm not clear if I'll lose any photos or not.
OK. Photos - Albums says I have the following:
Camera Roll - 224 photos
Videos - 16
So, I want to see if I have these on my Macbook Air: Eventually, I just hooked the phone back up to the MacBook Air, and it says "Already Imported". So, in theory, I've already imported these into my MacBook Air, which explains why they were still on my iPhone, because I didn't say to delete them.
OK. I tried to reimport them but it pointed out that they were duplicates. They were previously imported into the folder iPhone 9/15/14 (8/14/14 - 9/15/14). So, I'll delete them all from my phone to free up the space.
In iPhoto 11, I select the duplicate photos/videos and click "Remove Photos from Rob's iPhone". Delete photos. Removing photos.
Now, iPhone should be pretty clean.
Settings - General - Usage
9.7 GB available
3.6 GB Used
Photos & Camera = 134 MB
So, at least I got the photos off of my iPhone onto my MacBook Air. There's something to be said for that, but I'm not sure what, really.
Posted by Rob Kiser on January 2, 2015 at 8:45 PM
Comments
Apple's hardware today is amazing - it has never been better. But the software quality has taken such a nosedive in the last few years that I'm deeply concerned for its future. I'm typing this on a computer whose existence I didn't even think would be possible yet, but it runs an OS riddled with embarrassing bugs and fundamental regressions. Just a few years ago, we would have relentlessly made fun of Windows users for these same bugs on their inferior OS, but we can't talk anymore.Apple has completely lost the functional high ground. "It just works" was never completely true, but I don't think the list of qualifiers and asterisks has ever been longer. We now need to treat Apple's OS and application releases with the same extreme skepticism and trepidation that conservative Windows IT departments employ.
See comments at OS News and Slashdot.
Tim Cook is an MBA (Score:5, Interesting)
by catchblue22 (1004569) on Monday January 05, 2015 @01:30PM (#48738571)
More evidence for my hypothesis that MBA managers are driving the American economy into the ground. Contrast him with Steve Jobs who was not an MBA. He brought the company back from the edge, after being destroyed by another MBA, Jim Sculley.
If you want a strong perspective against MBA's, I recommend reading John Ralston Saul's The Unconscious Civilization” . Here is part of a summary of his arguments against MBA's:
They fear all the most effective qualities of capitalism itself (risk, innovation). “No matter how badly the MBAs are doing, they just go on hiring clones of themselves.” They preach capitalist ideology, but only simulate it through unproductive preoccupations like mergers and acquisitions. Their incomes skyrocket, the economy founders, the middle class erodes.
They profit by flipping between nationalization and privatization; “an unnecessary move in either direction merely makes money for the political friends of the party in power”. Privatization of government functions is foolish, as business is better suited to fuelling real growth.
Contrast this with real innovators like Elon Musk, who has created disruptive companies in four separate sectors (banking, transportation, space launching, and energy production). Please note that he is NOT an MBA and openly says that he disagrees with their methods.
Re:Tim Cook is an MBA (Score:3)
by jasonla (211640) on Monday January 05, 2015 @03:14PM (#48739565)
People have been saying MBA's are worthless for a while. Look at this http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2081930,00.html Key quote from the article: "Lutz says, we need to fire the M.B.A.s and let engineers run the show."
Re:Tim Cook is an MBA (Score:5, Interesting)
by RandCraw (1047302) on Monday January 05, 2015 @03:15PM (#48739569)
There's a wonderful article "The Case Against Credentialism" by James Fallows in the The Atlantic (1985) which reads as if it were written today: http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/01/my-old-case-against-credentialism-article/384190/
It assesses professional degrees like MBAs as being inherently worth next to nothing, essentially serving a broken agenda in which our highly credentialed leaders know everything about form but nothing about function. Maybe virtual expertise is enough to govern a virtual world?
Too bad the US political parties didn't read this prior to the 2000 election. Maybe the would have fielded worthier candidates (and staff), and the US could have saved about a million lives and a few trillion bucks). Such is the cost of driving under the influence, I guess.
Posted by: anonymous on January 9, 2015 at 3:23 PM