iPhoto 5.0.4 34 seconds to load, 4600 pictures, 83 movies. (Mac OS 10.4.2, 12 inch PB 1.33 GHz, 512MB memory.) IOW, in 34 seconds the full library was displayed and was scrollable at normal speed. That's acceptable to me. Jon At 7:37 PM +0100 10/20/05, Simon Forster wrote: > On 20 Oct 2005, at 18:51, Crandon David wrote: > > >> I've heard that iPhoto 5 is much better at handling large numbers >> of photos. >> > > Shoot. Glad you heard that cause since I've moved to iPhoto 5 I've > been amazed at how slow it is (wrt to earlier versions).