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Originally Posted by fryke Another thing: Since iPhoto _does_ have good management with meta-data, it should basically never be a big problem to switch to _another_ good program that handles meta-data. So *I*'d just let iPhoto handle the stuff the way it wants to. |
Fryke, I disagree. Instead of storing metadata (like category assignments, star ratings, etc) _in_ the image file itself -- a strategy that would allow for portability should one ever want to switch to another photo-organizing app -- iPhoto stores all this metadata in its own proprietary database file. Yes there are scripts and whatnot that attempt to export this metadata if desired, but it's imperfect and a real pain.
Google's Picasa, by comparison, stores metadata in the IPTC headers of the image file itself, which I like a lot. I hope a future version of iPhoto will adopt this approach, but right now I'm not terribly optimistic.