iPhoto 4.0.2 In July?

never had any of the problems that are mentioned in the post personally, i have been ordering albums with no hiccups

I want them to support small video flicks that I take with my Canon Ixus. I had to get myself a card-reading dongle where I insert my memorycard, in order to get them onto my computer.

I want them to support small video flicks that I take with my Canon Ixus.

That -- and audio attachments! I've got this nifty microphone on my camera to record notes along with the pictures, but it's completely useless with iPhoto.

I had to get myself a card-reading dongle where I insert my memorycard, in order to get them onto my computer.

Most cameras have the ability to connect as a Mass Storage Device (maybe an option in the settings menu) -- so the camera itself becomes the card reader.

I haven't really used iPhoto because I hate the complicated file structure it uses to store the files.

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I imagine I could probably override this default, but I found the default so irritating that I never used the app again. This would be the easiest thing to fix, and would be a very worthwhile enhancement.

I haven't really used iPhoto because I hate the complicated file structure it uses to store the files.

Pictures>iPhoto>Albums>PagesofAlbums>2003>Spring>May>24th>AM>GoodLighting>GimmeABreak

I imagine I could probably override this default, but I found the default so irritating that I never used the app again. This would be the easiest thing to fix, and would be a very worthwhile enhancement.

I understand your annoyance, but the point of iPhoto is supposed to be "File structure? What's a file structure?" :D Seriously, though, it shows you pictures in rolls and/or albums, and the kind of user who just wants to tweak, arrange, and share photos won't care where the actual photo files are.

I just wish that iPhoto 4 were available as a standalone download, instead of exlusively as part of iLife. I'll get to see what version 4 is all about when I get a new computer...

Most cameras have the ability to connect as a Mass Storage Device (maybe an option in the settings menu) -- so the camera itself becomes the card reader.

You can also use Image Capture. That goes for TorbX too. :)

I want them to support small video flicks that I take with my Canon Ixus. I had to get myself a card-reading dongle where I insert my memorycard, in order to get them onto my computer.

I hava a Canon Powershot s30 which does video too. When I take small clips, I use the Image Capture program. You just scroll through the list until you hit your videos then download them (unless you have already tried Image Capture).

-- Dan =)

I haven't really used iPhoto because I hate the complicated file structure it uses to store the files.

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Completely agree, it's a mess.

I don't see the point of informing users when new versions are available unless it runs Software Update to do so, because either people know about SU and use it, or they don't know about it and don't use it (so alerting them and running Software Update would make them aware).

AppleMatt

I understand your annoyance, but the point of iPhoto is supposed to be "File structure? What's a file structure?" :D Seriously, though, it shows you pictures in rolls and/or albums, and the kind of user who just wants to tweak, arrange, and share photos won't care where the actual photo files are.

Really though, the point of iphoto isn't "whats a file structure?", its to have a graphical interface for accessing photos. It seems that iphoto should be as intuitive as itunes for organizing its files. Instead it buries them to such an extreme degree that a casual user would have no idea at all how to find the files on their hard drive should the need arise.
When I have something in iphoto that needs some actual editing (other brightness/contrast or the silly "Enhance" button), I have to export the file to the desktop to open it in photoshop (and I DON't want to have to open photoshop every time i want to view something as other than a thumbnail). Then I have a file on my desktop thats different from its iphoto counterpart, which I could add to my library, but then iphoto would put that image in some other random ass directory, and we're back where we started. Boo.

soo. . a bit off topic, but can anyone think of a reason why digital cameras can't be bluetooth? BT is supposed to be the wireless equivilent of USB, no?

Why can't I pair a camera with my BT module and import photos?!

Maybe that will be in iPhoto 5.0, and work with an Apple-branded camera. Kidding, of course.

Edit: found one here, but it's not that cool.