iPhoto '11 - a warning
Mark Ford I have a number of iPhoto Libraries the largest of which is 14,000 and it is less sluggish than before.
However I have a grumble that greatly undermines my pleasure in its improvements and that concerns emailing.
In the last version highlighting pictures and one click would send them to Mail and composing and addressing an email was straightforward. Off it went leaving a record in the Sent box and in the Smart Folders that I had made.
In iPhoto ’11 pictures are emailed directly from within iPhoto and a record of with whom it was shared [by email, facebook, MobileMe Gallery & so on] is kept with the Information [metadata] on the picture. The email with its picture and the message you wrote can be pulled up again from within iPhoto.
Fine - very neat - I now know how I have shared or printed a particular picture.
Hang on - when I want to remind myself about the message I sent with the picture I have to remember which picture it was that I sent and find it again in iPhoto, Get Info, Click on the record that it was shared and wait for the email to show up again in iPhoto!
Phew! Glad I remembered exactly which of the 25 pictures I decided to send!
Apple provides a workaround of sorts: iPhoto/Preferences/Advanced/Automatically BCC myself. BUT - the email turns up in my Inbox marked from me, so I have to make sure that the To column is showing in Mail or in a month or two I wont know who I sent it to!
Complicated? Yep - thats my grumble. What was straightforward has become more complicated and its a good job I noticed what was going on before I had sent too many pictures fro the new iPhoto.
Perhaps the warning is of use to someone else.