Futuristic BackupĪll of us, no matter amateur or professional, adore our pictures. Well, not really, actually Mylio found me, so I have to chalk it up to dumb luck but I’ll take it however it comes. This is a monster machine and it should be able to handle it but it can’t.
#MYLIO AND NAS MAC#
There’s no reason I should have to have multiple catalogs that don’t allow me access to all my images at the same time.” And we’re talking about a brand new Mac Pro–the fancy new trash can model–that was just one tier down from the most expensive Mac I could buy. Both Adobe and Apple have suggested I make multiple catalogs but I’ve always replied, “Are you kidding? Computers are made to crunch massive amounts of data. Scroll, 50 images will pop up, the spinning beach ball of death appears, and I wait, anywhere from 10-60 seconds before I can get through another 50 images. JP warned me about this and it’s only an issue with older routers. Not everything is synced since the hotel Internet connection is not allowing Mylio to talk with each other.
The screenshot above is what Mylio currently looks like while I’m working here in my hotel in South Africa. Many of you reading this may have experienced the painfully slow process if you have even a moderately sized library of say 100,000-200,000 pictures. With Lightroom and even Aperture, scrolling through my 950,000+ image collection was virtually impossible. When I say speed I’m referring to how quickly I can scroll through my photos and see batches of pictures. Mylio: What’s the difference? Speedįor me, Mylio’s major benefit has been a huge increase in speed. It took me awhile to understand why, but they had solid reasons, and Mylio has proven better than even Apple’s replacement for Aperture, a program they now call Photos. To think Apple would kill Aperture was completely crazy at the time. It was Aperture that inspired me to switch our entire studio over to Apple products back in 2004.
When I first became aware of Mylio I was in a bind, hoping desperately Apple was going to bring us an updated version of Aperture. Aperture users had been waiting for years hoping for features that would compete with Adobe, and as for me I had invested heavily in the Apple ecosystem. Kevin Gilbert during his time with Mylio in Seattle.