What’s bugging you?

Gotta say, iMovieHD is driving me bananas! Every time I import video, it quits. I’m working with a new Mac Mini, with 500 mb of RAM. I’ve submitted about 15 crash reports. But no Tiger update has yet addressed it. This is not the way an Apple program should behave. Arrghh.

Mail.app - There’s no way to unsubscribe a folder!  If you’re on an IMAP server that has hundreds of shared folders, each of which contains thousands of messages, it’s basically impossible to use Mail.app.  I’m forced to use Thunderbird, which in almost every other aspect is a far inferior program.

Anyone else having this problem?  Really wish Apple would fix it so I can use my favorite mail client again!!!

Uggh, the new mp3tunes client software. it’s slow, doesn’t give accurate status/feedback, and it crashes my router after a couple of hours. It’s just a compiled python script that doesn’t work particularly well.

The digg konfabulator widget. Just disappears all the time. unfortunately, it works just fine on the windows version of Konfabulator.

Nathan

I’ve had the laptop problem in various forms too. It was worse under Panther. Under Tiger you just have to be patient. Close the lid and give it a minute or two for the LED to light.

My wife has a problem (on Panther) with here clamshell iBook, where it just keeps returning to the screenlock password no matter how many times you type it in.

Keyboard shortcuts support is lousy. I’d like to be able to assign keyboard shortcuts to any reasonable action (say, maximize a window? start an app?) without having to pay US$20 for it. Thats one thing I really miss from KDE.

Without a doubt, the #1 most annoyingly frustrating bug on both my iMac G5 and wife’s eMac is whatever’s causing the semi-random iPhoto (now 5.0.4) beachballs that demand a Force Quit to escape.  Sometimes it happens after switching to some other app and returning to iPhoto, which is a commonly reported problem (e.g. on Apple Discussions).  And I can reliably reproduce it simply by launching iPhoto then immediately copying an image.  If I navigate a bit first then do the copy all’s fine temporarily but eventually I’ll do something that triggers the beachball hang.

I’ve gone beyond every suggested method of repair, once even thinking I’d fixed it but that success was short lived since the problem returned fairly quickly.  The only thing left to do seems to be creating a new iPhoto Library, then reconstructing it to match the current one with minimal lossage (e.g. film rolls, albums, and/or keywords).  I’ve ruled out doing tedious, time-consuming testing with older versions of iPhoto without any guarantee of success.

The trouble may have originally started with iPhoto 5.0.2, first on my iMac after importing from my wife’s Canon SD200.  Then a month or so later it found iPhoto on her eMac, too.  On my iMac, I suspected it might have been related to importing a few AVI files but we never did that on the eMac.  I’m still wondering if this is camera-related in any way.  I’ve read that 10.4.3 has fixed the app-switch problem for some iPhoto users, while making it worse for others.

Being unable to reliably launch Photoshop Elements from iPhoto has made this problem especially crippling for me.  And yesterday iPhoto (and Mail?) locked up while showing my wife how to e-mail images from it.

I have enough technical expertise to troubleshoot and fix or work around most issues but this one’s the most stubborn unsolved mystery I’ve had to deal with in nearly five years of using OS X.  Where’s someone who’s smarter than I am to help with this particularly painful problem?

I’ve recreated the problem on my iBook G3 starting with fresh iPhoto preferences.  Not sure what you mean by camera prefs; changing any settings on the camera surely wouldn’t fix an already-broken library.  Yes, I regularly repair permissions but that’s irrelevant to this problem.

It’s probably hard to replicate this from scratch but thanks for trying.  I know it’s related to something in the iPhoto.db file (or Library.iPhoto; I forget offhand which) in the iPhoto Library folder because I deleted every other file (since they were recreated) except that one and still had problems.  Once I deleted all the images imported from the SD200 (and quite a bit further back) and still couldn’t fix it.  I’ve tried debug tracing iPhoto to see if that would give a clue to where it gets stuck but that wasn’t helpful.  The only alternative left without help from someone more knowledgeable than I am seems to be starting from ground zero and reconstructing the library, diligently checking if the problem returns at any point during that process.  Oh, or waiting for the next iPhoto update (e.g. maybe a major release with iLife ‘06 at MWSF next month) to see if that fixes it.

I’m not sure where’s best to ask for help.  Apple Discussions didn’t have any new suggestions when I tried there a few months ago.  Same with AppleCare before that.  And on a couple forums.  This seems non-trivial or I’d likely have discovered a solution by now, especially with how much time and effort I’ve put into it.  But there must be untapped resources of expertise I’m just not aware of.  Clues welcomed.