[G4] iPhoto sooo slow

rich northouse rnorthouse at wi.rr.com
Fri Apr 15 15:21:23 PDT 2005


Ray,

I also have a Quicksilver (733, OSX.3.8) and when I did anything with 
iphoto 2, it took forever. I upgraded to iPhoto 4, and it made a world 
of difference. Just like you say, disks spinning forever, on almost any 
command.  I have heard that iPhoto 5 is even faster.

rich

On Apr 15, 2005, at 5:08 PM, Nathan Gable wrote:

> I'm running iPhoto 2 (Jaguar) on a QuickSilver 2002 800 MHz with 1 GB 
> RAM, 913 photos in the library, and I don't have any trouble doing a 
> slide show.
>
> But I don't have a solution.  Sorry.
>
> Nate
>
>> Not enough RAM plus not iPhoto 5.
>>
>> k
>>
>> On Apr 14, 2005, at 5:15 PM, Kevin Willis wrote:
>>
>>> I have been messing around with iPhoto a little bit today.  It is 
>>> the first time i have used it since upgrading to OS 10.3.8.  For 
>>> some reason, the beach ball will spin for over a minute before 
>>> responding to anything I do.  When I highlight a photo to print, or 
>>> to edit, it spins for ever.  When I resize my thumbnails in the 
>>> library it does it too.  I only have 203 photos in the library.  Is 
>>> that a lot?  Is there a way to work with iPhoto faster?  I never had 
>>> a problem with it before.  I am using a Gigabit G4 with a 1 Ghz 
>>> upgrade and 1 GB of RAM.  Any thoughts?
>>
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