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October 27, 2014
Getting Ready for the Next Ride
I'm trying to get ready to leave on my next ride down into Mexico. The bike should be ready to go by tomorrow, Lord willing and the river don't rise. I've paid off all my outstanding tickets (in the USA, anyway). Hoping to get away tomorrow. The general plan is to ride down to Mazatlan. Nothing beyond that, really. I'll consider it a success if I can make it down there, threading the needle through parts of the country controlled by the Sinaloa Cartel.
- Move all of my Photos/Videos off of the Macbook Air onto the home network:
Export Events off of iPhoto 11:
iPhoto - Events - Select all events - File - Export:
Kind - Original
File Name - Use filename
Subfolder Format: Event Name.
Most of these have already been exported to my Synology Diskstation. However, when I try to export some of the events from iPhoto 11, I get this message:
"You have selected one or more Aperture photos that iPhoto does not support and cannot be put into the iPhoto Trash. Deselect the unsupported aperture photos or use aperture to delete them."
Not sure what this means. But, I can Click 'OK', then go into the event, select all of the photos, and delete them all that way. Not sure what's going on here.
When I export my photos from iPhoto onto my 12 TB Synology DiskStation DS413, for whatever reason, the process hangs, occasionally. Like...it just freezes up. Stops copying files over. At this point, you're really hosed because of the following:
1) It's difficult to determine which files were copied over, especially if they were in multiple Events and you were exporting by the Event.
2) You can't restart the process.
3) If you try to repeat the same steps, you get an option to either "replace" or "cancel", but I'm not even clear what these options mean, really. "Replace" is no good, of course, because it means you're starting over, and you only get to answer the question once...it's assumed to apply to all x thousand of the photos. "Cancel" doesn't help you because it cancels the process.
So, once it hangs up, you're royally screwed. The best solution, so far as I can tell, it to export only one event at a time, or to export 4 events at a time....limit your losses, as it were. And you at least know where you are in the process if it hangs up. It sucks, but it's apple, and we're doing the best we can, right?
The other thing I've noticed is that there are little odd marks in place of the space characters in Event Names when it appears under Windows. So, for instance we might have three Event in iPhoto all named "Canon 07/23/14". These will come across into Windows as "Canon 072314", "Canon 072314-2", and "Canon 072314-3".
The "-2" and "-3" are counters added on by Windows to prevent duplicate folder names. As for the weird sub-script dots in the folder names, apparently this is because Apple allows characters which are illegal characters in Windows. So...somehow Windows converts the slashes (/) into a little dot that appears below the normal text line, and one character before where it was on the Mac. So...yeah....this isn't confusing at all, really.
http://www.theutilityfactory.com/summaries/mac-ios-filenames.htm
Posted by Rob Kiser on October 27, 2014 at 12:57 PM
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