iPhoto painfully slow

[chuckd62687]

Hi, I'm a Mac newbie. I just did an initial import of some photos, roughly 700, into iPhoto. As I am trying to go through them and clean them up it is painfully slow. It also appears to be making the entire OS sluggish. I have a iMac 800 MhZ PPC G4 with 256 MB SDRAM. I am on Mac OS 10.4.9 and iPhoto 2.0.1 (3E8). Any ideas or experince would be appreciated. Thanks.

 

[Silver-Fox]

modifying 700 photos with 256mb of ram will make your system painfully slow, that may be your problem

 

[smokeyrabbit]

That is a very old version of iPhoto, and it may well have been designed to work with only about 1000 photos. iPhoto was painfully slow during those years. Also, running Tiger on a G4 with 256 MB of RAM is going to be painfully slow. FWIW I have 10.4.9 running on a 400 Mhz G3 with 768 MB and it is usable for simple tasks.

 

[Mavimao]

256 MB SDRAM and iPhoto 2.0.1 (3E8).

That's your problem right there. Get more ram in there and upgrade iPhoto! I recently upgraded to iphoto 6 and it's a world of difference!

 

[clevin]

Tiger's minimum requirement is 256MB, and we all know what "minimum system requirements" means. u need to add RAM to around 768MB or 1G to enjoy a smooth speed with what you are trying to do.