Photos won't import into iPhoto - Please help

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  1. ckesten, Apr 20, 2009

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    Hey guys.

    Just bought the macbook base aluminum model saturday.

    I have a dvd that I saved from my old mac with 6,000 pictures.

    I used iphoto to import them. After over 9 hours there was still 4500 pics left to be imported.

    The total size of all the pics is 1.5 gigs. I can't imagine why it would take this long.

    Any idea why this is taking so long or if there is another way to do this?

    Thank you

    Craig
     
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  2. mrkgoo, Apr 20, 2009

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    Your title is misleading - seems like they are importing, but it's just taking a long time.

    Anyway, I guess it depends on many things. DVD drive speed, and other hardware related things, but also iPhoto creates a database and thumbnail versions (2-3 of them I believe), as well as process (if you have the latest) faces and so on. When I first bought iPhoto 09, it took 6-9 hours JUST to add face data (20,000 photos).
     
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  3. ckesten, Apr 20, 2009

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    wow.. so i guess thats normal? thanks
     
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  4. mrkgoo, Apr 20, 2009

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    Well, not say something isn't wrong, but it's possible it's doing its face recognition thing on top of processing images.

    18 hours sounds pretty long, though.
     
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