[sussex_mug] Re: "Photos" Catastrophe

2016-02-12 Thread mac98aop
Apologies that the typos and grammar in my last post, made it completely incomprehensible. But, it's Friday afternoon, and I know what I meant, so ;) On Friday, February 12, 2016 at 2:06:52 PM UTC, mac98aop wrote: > > That's really helpful, thanks Sam. > > It's also a little disappointing a

[sussex_mug] Re: "Photos" Catastrophe

2016-02-12 Thread mac98aop
That's really helpful, thanks Sam. It's also a little disappointing as whilst I don't begrudge any firm wanting to make profits, it seems we are in an Apple era where it's so easy to simply recommend any of their products depending on one's needs. Now, the spec might also let someone down. Ok,

Re: [sussex_mug] Re: "Photos" Catastrophe

2016-02-12 Thread Sam - MacAmbulance
I would imagine Apple haven’t optimised for spinning disks at all, given that all their Macs bar the 13” MacBook Pro and base 21.5” iMac have a flash drive as standard. The 21.5” iMac 4K with basic 5400rpm drive is woefully slow for a new Mac, it’s useless without the Fusion Drive. Even Yosemit

[sussex_mug] Re: "Photos" Catastrophe

2016-02-12 Thread mac98aop
Sam, I realise that SSDs are inherently faster than standard HDD, but I wonder if there's anything specific about El Cap compared to prior OS prior versions and the way it reads/writes files, that makes this so? Thanks On Tuesday, February 9, 2016 at 11:44:57 AM UTC, Phil Tomlinson wrote: > > >

Re: [sussex_mug] Re: "Photos" Catastrophe

2016-02-12 Thread Sam - MacAmbulance
El Cap always slows down Macs without an SSD. You could install one into your iMac for a fraction of the cost of a new Mac Regards Sam MacAmbulance Ltd. Providing Affordab

Re: [sussex_mug] Re: "Photos" Catastrophe

2016-02-12 Thread PHILIP TOMLINSON
blockquote, div.yahoo_quoted { margin-left: 0 !important; border-left:1px #715FFA solid !important; padding-left:1ex !important; background-color:white !important; } I started to get duplicates on transferring to El Capitan and the new Photos. I imagined that it's because I haven't selected s

[sussex_mug] Re: "Photos" Catastrophe

2016-02-12 Thread mac98aop
I still haven't updated to ElCap but am edging closer. I too have an enormous photo library and Photos.app scares me! Where are all these duplicates coming from? Is it widely experienced or are there certain setups/configs that make it happen? AP On Tuesday, February 9, 2016 at 11:44:57 AM UTC