[X4U] iphoto slowness

[John Kiss]

On Nov 12, 2005, at 10:24 AM, Kansas Territory wrote:

> O.k. I think this has been discussed before, or I've read somewhere  
> else about some ways to speed up iPhoto.
> But I don't remember ever reading any definitive answer.
>
> I'm running a Dual 1.25 G4
> 768 MB DDR SDRAM
>
> MacOSX 10.4.3
> iPhoto version : 5.0.4
>
> I have about 2700 image in my iPhoto library.
>
> Opening AND Closing iPhoto is painfully slow, embarrassing slow if  
> you know what I mean.
>
> Once I'm in iPhoto it seems 'o.k.' enough.
>
> A good number of these images were taken with a Nikon D-70  set at  
> high quality .jpg format.
>
> 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.

John