I've been using iPhoto since v2, and now have v6.0.6. My library is about 21,000 photos, disk space about 52G. That seemed excessive (e.g. backups to a NAS box take several hours) so after looking at the file structure, it appears that importing a 1.3M photo (in this case, a scan created using an Epson scanner) and rotating it creates a new file in the Modified directory (parallel structure) that is 2.9M in size. Viewing the two files in Preview shows no visible difference, and no difference in resolution. Two questions for anyone that knows:
1. Is there a way to stop this bloat? Keeping the >2x size image just to get a rotate seems insane. (photos taken with a Canon Powershot seem to grow about 20% on a rotate. photos with Nikon D200, paradoxically, shrink about 20% when rotated, even with the same resolution??)
2. Assuming that I want to only keep my "Modified" photos, and don't ever need to go back to the originals, is there a way to garbage-collect in iPhoto and get rid of all the duplicate files. Note: with 20,000+ files, manual methods are not workable.
I know I can write a "find" script to hack this (anyone already have one? e.g. scan the Modified directory and find/erase the corresponding file in the Originals directory? I tried a directory-full manually and iPhoto doesn't seem to mind...), but I'm hoping for something more intelligent, or something built-in to iPhoto? Anyone from Apple listening?
1. Is there a way to stop this bloat? Keeping the >2x size image just to get a rotate seems insane. (photos taken with a Canon Powershot seem to grow about 20% on a rotate. photos with Nikon D200, paradoxically, shrink about 20% when rotated, even with the same resolution??)
2. Assuming that I want to only keep my "Modified" photos, and don't ever need to go back to the originals, is there a way to garbage-collect in iPhoto and get rid of all the duplicate files. Note: with 20,000+ files, manual methods are not workable.
I know I can write a "find" script to hack this (anyone already have one? e.g. scan the Modified directory and find/erase the corresponding file in the Originals directory? I tried a directory-full manually and iPhoto doesn't seem to mind...), but I'm hoping for something more intelligent, or something built-in to iPhoto? Anyone from Apple listening?