• NEVER Move Photos Outside of Shoebox!

  Filed under rants
  Mar 1

  Let me start this post by saying that I’m in a real peachy mood and I am going to curse gratuitously.  You have been warned.
  

  Here I am all excited to post about my friend Hans coming to visit me this last month and then I try to work with my images and I can’t find any of them.  Well, it turns out that if you use Shoebox as your photo organizer AND you try to  move photos outside of the program — that is you move them in the Mac OS, you will screw everything up and you can’t find anything.  Oh, the photos are there, but they are scattered all over hell and back.

  OK..so I looked at the help files.  The help files in Shoebox say that if you do happen to move the photos using the operating system instead of through the program, you can fix things simply by “Importing the new file into Shoebox.”

  Well, that short of works.  Except that the new “top” file is called “Imported”… and it fucks up the old file system you so neatly set up.

  So instead of your files being by date  — Say February 23, 2009 — like this:

  2009 > 02 > 23

  You have

  Imported > 2009 >02 >23

  And your “2009 > 02 > 23″  file is full of broken images.  This doesn’t really help matters.  Add to the fact that Shoebox express won’t import more than 1,000 images is just the cherry on top of the shit sundae.

  So I upgraded to Shoebox Pro and was told in my nice paypal screen that all I need to do is start up Shoebox and my program will auto register and download the new program.  That didn’t happen, so I tried to download the “Pro” program manually but was told to buy the program again.

  All of this has given me a headache.  Thankfully, Hans was kind enough to leave me some German chocolates and beer which I will eat/ drink to sooth my nerves.  I’ll try to tackle this tomorrow.

  Tagged as: Mac
  
  No Comments

Leave a Reply