iPhoto overloaded (was Re: [X4U] Apple Aperture target Audience?)

[Crandon David]

I've heard that iPhoto 5 is much better at handling large numbers of  
photos.

David Crandon


On Oct 20, 2005, at 10:04 AM, Zane H. Healy wrote:

> At 12:54 PM -0400 10/20/05, Richard Gilmore wrote:
>
>> On 20/10/05 11:39 AM, "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
>>
>>>  Though I wonder how well it will handle an image library the  
>>> size of
>>>  mine.  I'm up to about 11GB of images (~8000), and iPhoto is having
>>>  serious issues with handling the load.  Basically on a G5 2x2 with
>>>
>>  > 1.5GB RAM, it's now the only thing that can be running when I  
>> use it.
>>
>
>
>> Is there an alternative to iPhoto that is faster? I've got over  
>> 10,000
>> photos and it is painfully slow. I heard iPhoto collects a lot of  
>> data about
>> a photo such as it's size and other info and that's why it runs  
>> slow. Not
>> totally clear on that. Anyway I don't need it to do that. I just want
>> something to show me what I have with speed. There's an Adobe PC  
>> only app
>> Album is there some Mac alternative?
>>
>
> The problem seems to be iPhoto loading a massive amount of  
> information into RAM, I think the reason why it gets so slow is  
> that it's having to swap to disk.  Once I close out of iPhoto  
> (assuming the machine doesn't crash/lock up first), I suddenly have  
> about 3/4th's of my 1.5GB Physical RAM free.
>
> A related question would be, is there anything that can be done to  
> speed up (tune up) iPhoto?
>
>         Zane
>
>
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