[ale] Mac's version of BSD

Jeff Hubbs jhubbslist at att.net
Wed May 16 22:18:21 EDT 2012


FWIW, I use Canon's ImageBrowser utility.  Came with a camcorder.  Don't 
know if it can be downloaded independently.

Apple wants you to pop for Aperture if you want anything the least 
little bit serious for photo handling; they don't offer a middle ground.


On 5/16/12 9:35 PM, Drifter wrote:
> Unfortunately, non-technical people seldom, if ever, notice the nuances of
> error messages.  She didn't call me when these crashes happened and it
> never occurred to her to save the error messges. Sigh!
> But iPhoto can be hard to deal with.  It only wants you to organize and
> utilize your pix using its interface. I never could figure out where it was
> hiding the actual images.  Organizing images the way YOU want to organize
> them is, at best, counter-intuitive with iPhoto.  I never could figure out
> how to do it.  Early on, I made it clear that if she wanted to use iPhoto,
> she was on her own.
> The only remaining issue is how to drive a silver plated stake through its
> heart.  The damn thing won't go away.  Put an SD card in a reader plugged
> into her Mac and the only option available is download the images into
> iPhoto. ARGhhhhhh!!!!!!
>
> Sean,
>
> who has issues with Apple's attitude of "The Apple Way or the highway."
>
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>
> On Wednesday, May 16, 2012 07:07:46 pm Justin Goldberg wrote:
>> I almost always google the error messages I see. What message did she
>> have?
>>
>> On 5/13/12, Drifter<drifter at oppositelock.org>  wrote:
>>> I am essentially clueless about the underpinnings of a Mac.
>>> But, given the recent discussions on failing hard drives, I couldn't
>>> help but remember my wife's recent PAIN -- the HD in her Mac laptop
>>> died and that's when she discovered that her backup drive had died a
>>> week or so earlier.  (She hadn't understood the error messages she
>>> was getting.) Two new hard drives later she is trying to recover
>>> what she can.
>>>
>>> So this afternoon I checked and the command<smartctl>  is not on her
>>> machine.  Is it available?  If so, what is the download/install
>>> procedure?
>>>
>>> Sean
>>>
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