Why is this a hidden feature?!?!

Wow thanks! I wonder how long this newfound speed will last...

 

Bizarro world...

Rebuild mail what now?

 

This explains why when I upgraded to iPhoto 08 it loaded a lot faster than iPhoto 06. It's nice to know I can do this whenever it starts slowing down. Thanks for the tip!

 

You have no idea about the number of really cool features Apple has included in their software over the years and then for some stupid reason either forgot to document it or just didn't bother to make it obvious. Still it is always cool when you find them.

 

Why the hell isnt this menu in an Advance Preferences pane?? Sometimes Apple outsmart themselves and do something really dumb.

 

I had to do a manual rebuild because I had been stupid and mucked about in my library in finder (even though I KNEW better!), and want you to know that when apple says, in that article under Manual Rebuild ". . . and it may introduce duplicates into the iPhoto library. " it MEANS it! I ended up with a minimum of 4 of most photos, and duplicates of others! I got back what I wanted, but had to clean the mess up! I had to look at each photo or group of multiples and see which photo was the largest and delete the smaller ones. It was a labor of love, though, as I managed to salvage all and now all is well. Luckily, the library was a small subset of a much larger library -- only the last two year's worth of photos.

Good luck!

 

I have the same problem and have been trying to figure out how to fix it. My photos go back to 1998 and there is no easy way to find the duplicates / correct ones. I imported a bunch of photo directories from a dying windows drive and had some web galleries and ended up with a large photo, medium size and small thumbnail. My iPhoto is a mess. Does anyone know if the database rebuilt will remove bad links if I delete the thumbnails directly (using find with size option)?

- James

 

Very cool. I'm rebuilding now.

What's the command to rebuild the Mail database?

 

Is this rebuild a feature of 08 only or does it exist on 06 as well? I'm away from my PB right now or I would have tried it myself...

 

thanks for the tip. i might try it later

 

I just rebuilt in 06. It does seem snappier™

 

The KB article linked above gives the commands for all iPhoto versions.

iPhoto 4.0.3 and earlier: Cmd + Shift
iPhoto 5.0 and later: Cmd + Option

 

Thanks much! Looking forward to snaplicinous iPhoto!

 

doin g it right now hope this helps with all thos ecrazy duplicate di ve got i dont htink it will, i dont thin kits supposed to anyways...

 

Thanks for the tip about iPhoto!