iPhoto album question

[richxps]

Hi, when I create new albumns in iPhoto is this creating another copy of my photo, which than increases the size if my iPhoto library ?

[Weaselboy]

Originally Posted by richxps

Hi, when I create new albumns in iPhoto is this creating another copy of my photo, which than increases the size if my iPhoto library ?

No it does not create another copy of the photos. The album is just a pointer to the original.

[richxps]

That's for the reply, why than does it seem to have doubled in size ? I have 11k photos and its over 45 gb

[Weaselboy]

Originally Posted by richxps

That's for the reply, why than does it seem to have doubled in size ? I have 11k photos and its over 45 gb

It would not be from the albums. One thing that does happen though is when you bring up a photo and adjust/edit it in any way, like to fix red-eye or brighten it up... iPhoto keeps the original photo and creates a duplicate edited photo. So if say you import 30 photos and edit them all... you end up with 60 photos stored on the drive.

[richxps]

Thanks again, I never made any adjustments, all I did was transfer my library from a external hd to my Mac , I'm thinking 11k photos should be around 30gb ,

[Weaselboy]

Originally Posted by richxps

Thanks again, I never made any adjustments, all I did was transfer my library from a external hd to my Mac , I'm thinking 11k photos should be around 30gb ,

That sounds about right to me too. Click a recent photo in iPhoto then do command-i to see the photo info to look at the size. If you are saving really high res. photos in some ginormous file size, I guess that could all add up.

I have about 6,000 photos and the library is 8GB. Some of my older photos are relatively low res. though.