You have much more complicated needs for photos than I do because I barely use the photo function except for wallpapers and screenshots. So I import them to the mac, manipulate them as I need to and them send them off somewhere. I am not keeping most of the photos. So I don't need an organizing scheme of any note.

I do put them in folders for small projects, but I don't need more than that.

But yes, my photos are organized the way photosync does it, by name of ios device in the photosync folder in Photos. If you want, you can have photosync use Iphoto or something else, but I'm find with the Finder.

I use Picasa for my photo management needs, and have it call up Gimp if I need to go very flashy. It's handling thousands and thousands of pictures very easily--categorisation is a flash with the facial recognition.

Picasa on Mac, ita? My searches of the interwebs using phrases like "replacement for iPhoto '11" keep turning up Picasa. I might give it a shot.

Yep, Steph. It's pretty sweet.

Cool. Im'a try it out.

ita, doesn't Picasa install some additional software that people didn't like?

I haven't noticed any additional software on my Mac. What sort of stuff?

I don't recall. I thought I had read about this a couple of years ago, but if you haven't noticed anything, this issue might be moot.

I am very annoyed with Picasa right now. I downloaded the new version onto my Macbook, and for some reason I cannot log into my Google account with it. It keeps rejecting the password.

Argh. My little Iomega portable hard drive stopped working - I plug it into the USB and it's "I'm on" light comes on and it sounds like it's spinning, but it doesn't mount and the light goes out again after about a minute. Disk Utility can't see it to run diagnostics. Tried another cable and another computer to plug into. I just tidied all my firewire cables away, but I'll dig one up tomorrow and try that on the Mini, but i don't have high hopes that that will do any good.

Any ideas?