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So, apple have come out with Photos - the replacement for iPhoto.
not sure why - but there you have it - no real choice as iPhoto effectively deprecated (although you can continue to use current versions.
So, I have 250Gb of photos in iPhoto on my NAS.
Open Photos, it asks me if I want to convert to Photos.
"Sure!"
Hours later it finishes, I have a play, all looks good, if not particularly different, and that's that.
Then I want to look at some photos on my other machine.
No worries.
Open Photos, select photo library, says it needs to convert it! Oh well. Say OK.
Long story short -
When it converts on a Mac drive it does so using hard links - so one copy of the photo, but two libraries - one iPhoto library and on Photos library. iPhoto updates one library while Photos updates the other.
But because it's on the NAS (I think) it duplicates the photos too. so now I had 500Gb photos split across two libraries - and when I opened the iPhoto library in Photos a second time, "Something went Wrong"
Now, of course I have backups, so nothing too tragic - but playing with 250Gb of files is never a fun job when you're not sure what's wrong.
Finally I decided to take a copy of the (working) iPhoto library, then delete the Photos library and re-convert.
It's doing that now.
If it fails,I will cry
It's certainly a clever tricj to use hard links to save having to copy photos when upgrading - but it would have been nice to get a "I'm about to copy 250Gb of photos - is that really what you want to do" warning!
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You forgot that apple is only compatible with itself, when you're lucky.
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The other side of that coin is, "people who use Apple products are too dumb by twice."
Marc
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I don't know how they manage to do that, but it seems like you can get in the same situation with iTunes. I don't use it myself, but every time a buddy of mine replaces one of his iDevices and asks for my help to do the initial setup and sync, or his machine blows up and we restore from a backup then re-do the initial sync, somehow he ends up with his whole library getting duplicated somewhere and taking twice the space it did before.
I told him there's a reason I'm not using Apple products. They're made for a special type of people, and apparently that bar is too high for me.
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dandy72 wrote: They're made for a special type of people, and apparently that bar is too high low for me.
FTFY! 
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My wording was intentional.
I call it self-deprecation turned cynicism, and it gets the point across. 
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dandy72 wrote: They're made for a special type of people
You missed out the word "needs".
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It seems like every few months my wife comes to me to help her figure out iTunes. "It told me to update and now everything is moved around and I can't find XYZ..." That's besides the rarer "my playlists have disappeared" or "where are they putting her ripped CD's now?".
Unfortunately she has no choice but to use it since she has an iPhone.
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Maxxx wrote: But because it's on the NAS (I think) it duplicates the photos too. so now I had 500Gb photos split across two libraries
Is the NAS using SMB for access? Microsoft only invented hard links recently, and SMB predates that by something like a decade.
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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Yeah - it is SMB
Disappointing that the app doesn't detect if it's requirements aren't supported...
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Add de-dup to the server 
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Did anybody watch it: linky[^].
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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Agent__007 wrote: The Fight of the Century
Did we win?
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Well, I didn't. Or at least, nobody has turned up on my doorstep with an award and a big cheque!
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Which part of 15% is hard to understand?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mayweather grabbing hold and tryihg to dance. What a poof.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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That is his fighting style. His opponent was asked, "You knew that coming in, didn't you know you had to do something to make him stay?" He gave a vague response. Maybe he should have researched his opponent better and come up with a strategy to beat him.
The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is SILENCE, the second is LISTENING, the third MEMORY, the forth, PRACTICE and the fifth is TEACHING others!
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I get more programming done drunk on a saturday night (providing I work on a project of my own choosing) than I do all week, (reasonably) sober, working on the work I'm supposed to work on...
Am I really the only one? 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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No, I know more people who do a really lousy job during the week 
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LOL - Thanks... I guess... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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It's called the Ballmer Peak[^]
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Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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I spent all day working on a simple SSIS progress monitor. And I had a beer.
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Johnny J. wrote: I get more programming done drunk on a saturday night (providing I work on a project of my own choosing) than I do all week, (reasonably) sober,
I believe you believe that when you are sober, and forget that while you are drunk.
«To kill an error's as good a service, sometimes better than, establishing new truth or fact.» Charles Darwin in "Prospero's Precepts"
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I've certainly looked at my "drunk code" in the cold light of day and thought "What?", and "Why?"
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