Re: Updating and Photos app

From	Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: Updating and Photos app
Date	2017-04-30 19:08 +0000
Organization	Miskatonic U
Message-ID	<slrnogcdod.mi.g.kreme@snow.local> (permalink)
References	(2 earlier) <do_ray_me-B9367D.13411629042017@46.sub-75-242-165.myvzw.com> <YKcNA.54617$9T.16554@fx39.iad> <eml8huFk8npU2@mid.individual.net> <300420170058102482%nospam@nospam.invalid> <emmdbaFqrt4U1@mid.individual.net>

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In message <emmdbaFqrt4U1@mid.individual.net> Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
> On 2017-04-30, nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>> In article <eml8huFk8npU2@mid.individual.net>, Jolly Roger
>><jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>>
>>>> In that case, you can get it "from the torrents". It's out there.
>>>> Not the optimum solution, but it works when nothing else does.
>>> 
>>> Considering that many pirated software titles are purposely infected
>>> with malware and worse, that has got to be some of THE worst advice
>>> I've seen posted here in a long time!
>>
>> and in particular, iphoto.
>>
>><http://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/mac-malware-disguised-as-iphoto-installer/>
>>   This OS X malware arrives on a system as a package purporting to be
>>   an iPhoto installer.

> Exactly. Downloading and installing pirated software is just begging to
> have your machine compromised with whatever happens to be included,
> which can be as bad as allowing some stranger full administrator-level
> access to everything on your machine. Someone with root access can do
> anything they want: from stealing your private information or identity,
> to downloading child porn or other illegal and unsavory things, or any
> number of other activities that would point authorities straight to you.
> Install enough pirated software and sooner or later you're going to
> learn the hard way that it's a REALLY BAD IDEA! Don't be stupid. Stay
> away from it.

Yes.

> It's not hard at all to get Photos. iPhoto came installed on every new
> Mac between from 2002 to 2015; so it's included on the original install
> DVD for all of those machines. And Photos is included in macOS 10.10.3
> and later, which will automatically update iPhoto to Photos during
> install/setup. There's no need to resort to pirating it when it's so
> readily available.  

The issue is trying to get iPhoto onto a current mac running current OS.

For example, I was trying to get a friend's pictures off a Time Machine
disk after her laptop died, and getting iPhoto to install on my Sierra
machines was tedious to the point that it was nearly, but not quite,
impossible.


-- 
You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought!

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    Re: Updating and Photos app dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2017-04-29 13:41 +1000
      Re: Updating and Photos app dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2017-04-29 23:41 +1200
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      Re: Updating and Photos app John Albert <j.albert@snet.net> - 2017-04-29 23:21 -0400
        Re: Updating and Photos app nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-29 23:25 -0400
        Re: Updating and Photos app Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-04-30 04:46 +0000
          Re: Updating and Photos app nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-30 00:58 -0400
            Re: Updating and Photos app Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-04-30 15:14 +0000
              Re: Updating and Photos app Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-04-30 19:08 +0000
                Re: Updating and Photos app JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2017-04-30 16:41 -0400
                Re: Updating and Photos app dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2017-05-01 12:43 +1200
                Re: Updating and Photos app JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2017-04-30 23:15 -0400
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          Re: Updating and Photos app John Albert <j.albert@snet.net> - 2017-04-30 23:17 -0400
            Re: Updating and Photos app nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-05-01 09:52 -0400
            Re: Updating and Photos app Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-05-01 15:32 +0000
        Re: Updating and Photos app dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2017-04-30 15:34 +1000

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