what will happen if you need more than 250000 photos in iphoto?

[princealfie]

what will happen to iphoto if you had more than 250000 photos to deal with? any workaround for this?

 

[GimmeSlack12]

Umm, I'm not sure I know what you mean. Are you saying there is a limit to the number of pictures iPhoto can handle?

 

[princealfie]

According to the apple website, they said it was like 250,000 photos that iphoto could take. I am puzzled?

 

[Silver-Fox]

i never thought of that, im guessing it wouldn't let you to add more

 

[CanadaRAM]

Then you would need a professional digital asset management tool, not a consumer freebie photo album.




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"Then you have much more pressing problems to attend to than the speedometer, friend"

 

[shecky]

if you have 250K photos, there is no way in hell you should be using iPhoto, regardless if it can handle it or not. i got rid of iphoto for iView media pro after i got about 1000 photos.

 

[ChrisA]

what will happen to iphoto if you had more than 250000 photos to deal with? any workaround for this?

There are two things you can do:

1) Use multiple iPhoto libraries. The limit is per library but the number of libraries is not limited. But you can't search across libraries

2) Use Aperture.

#2 is a much more reasonable solution. I was at a three hour presentation a couple days ago were Apple gave a great Aperture demo. They sad there are some Aperture users who have over a million images in there Aperture library. If you have this many images you likely also need Aperture's much better catalogging abity and it's ability to handle off-line images and do backups. $299 is not a bad price if you have over 250K image to store