We've been using iPhoto on a mac laptop to manage our rather large photo collection for years. It's nice software for "average" use, but we seem to have outgrown it. We want to store photos on our NAS drive so that they will be accessible from any machine. However, because we have two versions of iLife on our macs, this is a bit problematic. It's also become annoying that iPhoto seems so slow to open and interact with sometimes.
The last straw came the other day, when we opened iPhoto and saw...nothing. Zero photos. I quickly went to the "Originals" folder (hidden inside the locked "iPhoto Library" directory), and was relieved to see all of our photos were still intact. However, I could not convince iPhoto of this fact. As far as it was concerned, we had never taken a digital photo in our lives. I tried googling a few fixes, but then I decided I'd just had enough.
I've installed Digikam on the mythbox, and we'll use that to manage our photo collection from now on. I haven't used it in years, and I really liked it back then, so I'm excited to see what the devs have been up to in the meantime.
By the way, installing digikam was not a no-brainer. A simple
sudo aptitude install digikam failed because the normal digikam package is incompatible with KDE-4.2. I followed these instructions to add a PPa repository for new Digikam-0.10 packages that are compatible with KDE-4.2. That's life on the cutting edge, I guess.
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