Over the last two years, I’ve been waiting in anticipation of the new release of Gallery – the software which I use to host my photos on my website (and thus have an off-site backup). Gallery 3 promised to be a complete rewrite of Gallery, incorporating all sorts of newfangled Web 2.0 features and performance considerations; although I would have just been happy with a better permissions UI. But hey, technological upgrades are great (I mean who would get a iPhone 3GS now that iPhone 4 is available).
Finally last week, Gallery 3 was released. I kind of gave up on it for a year, because they would announce a release candidate and a schedule, then miss the schedule by a few months. But nevertheless, it released. I’ve probably installed it over 10 times now and am ready to give up (or at least wait till Gallery 3.1).
Sure it’s more spiffy, but it doesn’t work in two crucial ways:
- It doesn’t import my photos from Gallery 2 correctly (it stalls every 500 photos or so, and I’m not going to create new albums for my 25000+ photos), and
- It doesn’t keep my original photos during import if they have been rotated
If Gallery 3 doesn’t work as a backup tool, and takes forever to setup, it kind of defeats the purpose of using it!
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