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Apple Photos app corrupts images

The Apple Photos app sometimes corrupts images when importing from my camera. I just wanted to make a blog post about it in case anyone else runs into the problem. I’ve seen other references to this online, but most of the people gave up trying to fix it, and none of them went as far as I did to debug the issue. I’ll try to describe the problem, and the things I’ve tried to do to fix it. But also note that I’ve (sort of) given up on the Photos app too. Since I can’t trust it to import photos from my camera, I switched to a different workflow.

At this point I figured it was somehow a race condition or something when copying the photo files and deleting them at the same time. I’ve not seen any file corruption when importing to Darktable, so I am convinced this is a problem with the Photos app. But now, since all of my images land in Darktable before making their way to the Photos app, I don’t really care anymore.

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