[X4U] iphoto slowness

[Nick Scalise]

On Nov 12, 2005, at 9:24 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 ?

If you hold down the Apple and Option keys when clicking on iPhoto in  
the dock, it will ask you if you want to Rebuild various things in  
iPhoto.

That may improve your startup times.
--
Nick Scalise
nickscalise at cox.net