i'm almost up to 1000, and so far so good, although it's getting a bit sluggish.

thanks for reminding me to back them up!

i've heard iPhoto horror stories too.

oh yeah, in wales, keep 10G empty on your hard drive, and repair permissions every week or so.(in Disc Utility, in the Applications folder, in the Utilities folder), especially if you have downloaded anything from the net.

OS X needs 10G of free space to operate correctly.

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~

Seconded.  I know several people who overloaded their IPhoto directories, and had constant problems.

On a related note, I refuse to Mac computers, stemming from my basic and complete incompatibility with the Mac interface, a problem I've had since childhood, before Windows had been invented.

I switched from WMP to iTunes a few years ago due to the horrible shuffle system on WMP.  When you'd skip a song, it would always go right back to that song after it finished the one you skipped, so I was constantly drug back to a song I didn't want to listen to at that moment.  iTunes does not have that problem.  All of my music is off CD's and such non-protected sources, so I've really not had the problems that some have reported.  I was aware of its drawbacks before I started using it, and have been keen to avoid them.

Itunes is the one piece of software that Is truly, truly abysmal, I did make the mistake of installing it, having been told that it was the easiest way of converting between formats. what I hadnt been told was it has an utterly, utterly rediculous way of organising your files. whereas every other piece of music software downloads an albumn into a single folder, iTunes stupidly uses the artist names as folder labels, so if you have a couple of tracks  labeld as being by an artist featuring another artist, they dont get stored as part of the album Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh. leaves you sort of marooned on iTunes, or with a broken storage structure on everything else.  Or the fact that every now and then, for no good reason, it duplicates half my music in its own database so suddenly  I have two versions of almost every track. and the only way to remove them is by hand.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

Crazy Horse:

people talk/write about not having a keyboard.  when you've learned the system, it's much speedier, intelligent writing software, and the easiest path to detailed...

Would you want to write and edit a thousand words on it?