Picture weirdness
I’ve been trying to track down what’s been causing problems with uploads to the new version of gallery (gallery2). It will freak out and abort uploads when it reaches certain pictures. I thought it was weird that it would consistently not be able to upload particular pictures, and do fine with all the rest. At first I thought it was an issue with the new version of gallery and my iPhotoToGallery plugin that I use to upload, but today I tried to upload some of the errant pictures through the web interface, and it still freaked out.
What I realized was that the pictures that are giving gallery2 problems are those that have been rotated locally on my new computer. The new mac has a more current version of the iLife suite, and it seems that something strange is happening when I rotate pictures. Either the jpeg manipulation libraries on gallery2 have a bug in them, or the new version of iPhoto is doing something nonstandard with the jpeg files. I still need to investigate it further, but at least now I know where to look at the problem.