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Apple Photos app corrupts images

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1133 points pattyj | 2 comments | 17 Sep 25 11:07 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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doodaddy ◴[17 Sep 25 13:39 UTC] No.45275721[source]▶
As an Olympus shooter this is good to know.

But good gravy that troubleshooting path got expensive real fast. Replacing the laptop and the camera? Why not start by trying something other than Photos? It doesn’t even need to be a paid product; the Olympus software is free not to mention a good baseline since it - of all the applications - should be able to import photos without corrupting them.

Edit to add: delete on import seems pretty risky. My workflow is to import and only delete from the camera after 1) the imported photos are backed up 2) I’ve done a first pass culling.

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in_cahoots ◴[17 Sep 25 15:03 UTC] No.45276712[source]▶
Yeah, after you've had this problem once it seems you'd uncheck delete after import before buying a literally entirely new photography system.
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1. PaulHoule ◴[17 Sep 25 15:37 UTC] No.45277127[source]▶
My workflow is don't delete after import but format the card in the camera afterwards. I have XXXL cards and it is not such a problem if I forget to format.

I had one case where I screwed up a shoot and thought file corruption might have been involved (it wasn't) Even though I had formatted the card with the camera and shot maybe 5 test shots I was able to recover most of the images with Disk Drill

https://www.cleverfiles.com/data-recovery-software.html

which has both Windows and Mac versions and looking at a sample of them confirmed it wasn't corruption, it was user error.

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2. eichin ◴[17 Sep 25 20:52 UTC] No.45281278[source]▶
(for media files, the linux tool of choice is PhotoRec, sometimes packaged as part of testdisk)