[X4U] iphoto slowness

[Kansas Territory]

On Nov 12, 2005, at 9:49 AM, John Kiss wrote:

>
> On Nov 12, 2005, at 10:24 AM, Kansas Territory wrote:
>>
>> Anyone have any suggestions on how to speed things up ?
>> other than adding more memory, which I know would probably be a  
>> good idea on many levels. but anything specific to iPhoto ?
>
> There are some discussions at http://www.macintouch.com/ 
> iphoto14.html about iPhoto's slowness and file bloat. Maybe there's  
> an answer there for you.
>
> By the way, I also have a dual 1.25 G4 (with 1G RAM, OS 10.4.3,  
> iPhoto v 5.0.4) with over 3,700 pictures and iPhoto takes 15  
> seconds to open the first time and about 8 seconds to close.  
> Subsequent openings take about 5 seconds. My pictures were all  
> taken with a Nikon 5700 at high quality with a good number of them  
> run through photoshop ending up at around 3MB each. My iPhoto  
> Library folder is over 11G in size. The Library.iPhoto file within  
> it is about 16MB.

So I went to check the size of iPhoto folder and my Library.iPhoto file.
2700 photos
iPhoto folder = 8.14 GB
Library.iPhoto = 83.2 MB     (Considerably larger than your 16MB size  
Library.iPhoto file for your 3700 pictures !! )

hmmm wonder what's up with that ?

Kansast