And make sure your file system is healthy by repairing permissions with Disk Utility. Be smart, backup your 2.0 libraries first. Library management is just not part of this incremental update.Īnd not a few pioneers have reported library corruption as 4.0 converts their 2.0 libraries to 4.0. There's no way of consolidating your 2.0 multiple libraries in 4.0 without losing roll ID, comments, and keywords. iPhoto only recognizes one library - worse, only one library filename. The old renaming shell game, played at the Finder level, is still required.
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Just look in the Help topic that discusses how to use multiple libraries. But we still find it one of the easiest ways to manage collections of digital images, which we all have to do.īut it gets a round of raspberries for library management. We find it (still) missing key features like adding copyright information to the Exif header or being able to keyword on path names. We don't use iPhoto to manage our images, we confess. Others with large libraries have raved about the speed. That may be because we keep separate Libraries, none too large to begin with - and, frankly, mainly for testing. It didn't seem noticeably faster than 2.0 on our system, although it scaled images a bit more smoothly.
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We used to get features like this with free Software Updates. The phrase "incremental upgrade" kept resounding in our head like a GarageBand loop as we played with iPhoto 4.0.
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We weren't, however able to launch iDVD after that install successfully completed. Or be smarter than us and do a Custom Install and click on iDVD. To do this, you control-click on the Install alias, select Show Original and wait for the Packages folder to appear. We were hoping we might be able to burn a DVD slide show onto a CD, actually.
You can't burn a DVD, of course, but you already knew that. One of the advantages of iLife '04 is that you can run iDVD without a SuperDrive. Unfortunately, it skipped the iDVD install because our machine doesn't have a SuperDrive. We were able to flip through a trade publication (without actually reading anything) in the time it took. The routine installation went just fine and didn't really take very long. You'd think Apple would schedule routine maintenance around iLife releases, not during them.
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Of course, the registration server has to be up for that. One bright thing about the installation is that it will register your products as they install. We did learn that the included DVD had everything on it that the CD includes. Apparently, the initial run had been restocked after it was first packaged.Ī few sheets of paper are included pretending to be installation instructions, tips, support options and a flyer. Especially since the outer box still had the factory seal intact. And we were surprised to see the interior box torn.
Oddly, we found the packaging fairly beat up. The guy in front of us noted that delivering the product a week after the show was certainly one way to keep things secret. Well, $79 is not our idea of Family Values.īack in the checkout line, four other guys (that's everybody) were getting the Single User version delivered to them by the polo shirt angel. We'd inadvertently picked up the Family Pack, according to a green sticker we'd failed to notice. Suddenly a harried fellow in just the right polo shirt dashed by promising to be back in a minute with the Single User version. So back we went again to the display area and found no tag. "Bring me the tag on the shelf," the clerk compromised. We dragged ourselves back to the display area and found iLife '04 in its nearly identical box, grabbed one and raced back to the checkout stand.īut the scanner priced it at $79, not $49. Only to discover as we skipped toward the cash register that it was version 1.1, last year's model. But the experience was emblematic of the package.ĭashing into the Mac section of the BigStore, we immediately latched onto the top box of a pile of iLife boxes.
We found it more convenient to chisel open our wallet and carve out $49 for iLife '04 ( ) the day it came out than to go through our usual channels (including the cardboard sign promising, "Will Review For Food"). The Imaging Resource Digital Photography Newsletter ILIFE '04 iLife '04 - Harder Than It Looks By MIKE PASINI
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