[zerohm]

Yeah, I had the same heartburn with iphoto years ago. I was still in the mindset of wanting to do file management myself. Now I'm buying in to the principle of letting the app manage the files in a DB. Or just generally taking file management away from user, but no one has really cracked the nut of how to that across multiple services and multiple devices.

[slantyyz]

You really do have to get over that psychological block about managing files to enjoy using iPhoto and Aperture.

Personally, I don't mind it, because it's one less thing to think about. I would prefer to buy a bigger drive than to worry about the placement of my photo files beyond the iPhoto/Aperture library package.

On the other hand, I know people with that file management mentality that hate, hate, hate iPhoto and Aperture's way of doing things.