"Dylan Smith" wrote in message
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Apple iPhoto doesn't have that bug though.

You don't know that. All you know is that you've never seen it or heard of
it.

Until Jay posted about his problems here, practically none of us (many of
whom use the same software as he) had heard of the bug either.

The thing is Apple iPhoto is
_vastly_ simpler than a combination of Windows Explorer + PhotoShop.

That's not really a fair comparison, since you left out Finder on the iPhoto
side. And Finder is every bit as complex a piece of software as Windows
Explorer.

PhotoShop is a complex large piece of software, and so is Windows
Explorer. Apple iPhoto is likely much less complex than Windows
Explorer.

Why compare iPhoto to Windows Explorer? They don't do the same thing.

Furthermore, it's unlikely Photoshop is part of the problem per se. Windows
Explorer doesn't run other applications just for the purpose of displaying
directory (folder) contents. It may extract icon data from the application,
but the application code itself isn't executed. If removing Photoshop from
the picture resolved the problem (as it seems to in Jay's case) it's still a
problem strictly limited to Windows Explorer; it just means that the data
extracted from Photoshop is one element in exposing the Windows Explorer
bug.

So the valid comparison is between Finder and Explorer, and the two are very
much in the same degree of complexity.

Even so, the bottom line is that you are not immune to problems even when
using iPhoto (ignoring for the moment that iPhoto doesn't run on Windows
anyway).

Pete