Sent the following to my computer tech:
FOR GOD'S SAKE, PLEASE! HELP SAVE ME (if you can) FROM THIS HORRIBLE, INTOLERABLE TORTURE!
The Photos App is either losing pictures or not showing all that are there! I think it did this with those two of the cats. I threw away what I took to be extras from the desktop, then went to the place in the Photos Library where (according to their date) they should be, looked carefully, and nothing! So I reimported all CDs I had from 2008-2010 in order to get those and any others which might have been skipped. Now, for those years I have two and three duplicates of many images, including those of the cats, indicating they were already in the Photos App! Yet it not only never identified them as duplicates, it didn't show them when I carefully looked for them! I manually deleted a few extras, but I don't want to have to hit three buttons each time for each one of thousands of images, and that is the lesser of the two problems! The greater is the many images it is either only showing when it damn well feels like, or losing entirely!
For evidence of its evil and depraved ways, consider the attached images.
Number of images taken at Stuart Maxwell's Memorial Service: 17
Number of images showing in BOTH the iPhoto and Photos Libraries: 1!
Number of images taken at my sisters' 50th birthday party: 77
Number showing in the Photos Library (I haven't checked iPhoto): 49!
Also please check screen shots of the Photos and iPhoto Library versions of pictures taken on the same date, March 23, 2012, and note how some show in both versions and some only in one or the other!
THEY SHOULD BE IDENTICAL! WHAT IS THIS?????
Now, these were taken during that awkward time (end of 2010-middle of 2014) when I was no longer saving images to CD, but simply wiping the memory stick clean after importing it to iPhoto and MAKING ABSOLUTELY SURE THE IMAGES REALLY APPEARED THERE, FOOLISHLY TRUSTING the FAITHFUL PROMISE of iPhoto to save them ALL!!!!! (As stated, I reimported everything taken 2010 and before and some taken after 2014. Some duplicated, others appear only once, and some in between these dates not at all!)
I have noticed other instances of going through the Photos Library and not being able to find images I knew were there before and the next time they are back again!
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD AND THE SAKE OF MY SANITY, PLEASE, IF THERE IS A WAY TO MAKE THEM ALL SHOW AT ONCE ALL OF THE TIME, PLEASE TELL ME WHAT IT IS!!!!! (I am begging here.)
THIS IS TOTALLY WASTING MY TIME IN TRYING TO LABEL PICTURES FOR A FAMILY ALBUM! NOW I HAVE TO START CLEAR BACK AT THE BEGINNING TO SEE WHAT I MAY HAVE MISSED! THAT IS IF THERE IS ANY WAY TO GET THIS EVIL, DEPRAVED APPLICATION FROM PLAYING HIDE AND SEEK!
As for getting lost images back, if any are REALLY LOST and not just hiding:
--I sent a few of the birthday party to my sister which include some of the missing images, but hardly all. The others exist only in the Facebook album, as far as I know.
--The memorial service exists only in the Facebook album, which will be reduced quality! The theater ones would be a major pain, it would mean:
--Assuming the theater manager saved all of my images from every show from the last six years in full resolution.
--Assuming there's some way to get them from her computer back onto mine! I would have to bring the laptop to the theater sometime when we're not insanely busy and copy them all over, then the EVIL APP would view hundreds as being new which are in fact already in the Library and I would have four duplicates of some instead of three!!!
--The worst of it is, all of this applies only to known events! How many images may I have taken in between these events which I have no idea of as they don't show in the Library?
This is pure torture designed to drive me back to shooting film and keeping printed albums! Or maybe tintypes and daguerreotypes.