{"id":228,"date":"2011-01-21T21:10:50","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T19:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rinta-aho.org\/blog\/?p=228"},"modified":"2015-11-03T12:13:18","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T10:13:18","slug":"mac-os-x-and-files-named-null","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rinta-aho.org\/blog\/mac-os-x-and-files-named-null\/","title":{"rendered":"Mac OS X and files named &#8220;(null)&#8221; silently ignored"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another bug that needs to be made Googleable. One of the most annoying things I have found in Mac OS X (at least in its photo applications iPhoto and Aperture) is that it silently fails with some files when importing data. For me it happened the first time when I was importing a whole directory structure to iPhoto, and there were files which had 8-bit characters like \u00c4 and \u00d6! Those were simply ignored and I noticed the bug when comparing the number of files in iPhoto vs. in the directory.<\/p>\n<p>Now I found a bug in Aperture 3.1.1 that is completely by Apple. After importing a photo library from iPhoto&#8217;11 to Aperture 3, there was again a mismatch in photo counts. I found out that there were three photos in iPhoto that were named &#8220;(null)&#8221;. Those photos were those few (out of 11K) that I had saved from someone else&#8217;s e-mail directly to iPhoto. Now those names are not good for Aperture. It simply skipped them without telling me anything in the end! That is a bug of the most serious kind as it may lead to data loss for the less careful users! Shame on you Apple!<\/p>\n<p>Now, I will submit a bug report to them, let&#8217;s hope it gets fixed. 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