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Wicked Slow iPhoto '05

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Harry K.

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Jun 1, 2003
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Hi. I have 7,918 photos in iPhoto '05 on my PowerBook G4 12". The app takes five minutes to open and five minutes to do anything. iPhoto 4 was four times faster! What do I need to do? I already have shadows off.

Also, after the first time I opened the app, it took sooooo long to quit it that I just force quit iPhoto '05. Now it doesn't show up with my old albums from iPhoto 4. How can I get them back!?

Thanks.
 
Harry K. said:
Hi. I have 7,918 photos in iPhoto '05 on my PowerBook G4 12". The app takes five minutes to open and five minutes to do anything. iPhoto 4 was four times faster! What do I need to do? I already have shadows off.

Also, after the first time I opened the app, it took sooooo long to quit it that I just force quit iPhoto '05. Now it doesn't show up with my old albums from iPhoto 4. How can I get them back!?

Thanks.
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First, of all, repair your permissions.

Secondly, iPhoto 5 has to convert the photo library which may take some time. So, I guess since you forced quit, this process might not have been completed. Did you make a backup of your photo library before installing iPhoto 5? If so, I'd wipe out the photo library and replace it with the backup.
 
Zaty said:
First, of all, repair your permissions.

Secondly, iPhoto 5 has to convert the photo library which may take some time. So, I guess since you forced quit, this process might not have been completed. Did you make a backup of your photo library before installing iPhoto 5? If so, I'd wipe out the photo library and replace it with the backup.
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How do I repair permissions?

iPhoto loaded and converted my entire library. I played around for a while, even though it was slow. I thought restarting might make it faster so I quit, and it took ten minutes to quit, so I just force quit the app. I only have some of the photos backed up on another hard drive, and most of the photos (not full quality) backed up on my iPod Photo.
 
iPhoto '05 is a lot faster now, but is still slow on startup and closing. I still don't know how to get my old albums back though.
 
Take a look in your Pictures > Albums folder. If your old albums aren't listed there they're gone. If they are there, I'm not sure what you do--but at least they're there. It's a starting point.

Regarding the speed, I've noticed that it is slower to start up but it's a lot faster when it's doing its thing.
 
iPhoto 5 Much Faster

iPhoto 5 is much faster and runs much more smoothly than version 4 for me. I have about 3,800 images in my library.
iMovie is also a lot faster and smooth. All in all the new versions rock. iPhoto has one new feature that makes the upgrade a must-have for me- the slide shows now automatically time to the music chosen. Love that!
 
mowogg said:
iPhoto 5 is much faster and runs much more smoothly than version 4 for me. I have about 3,800 images in my library.
iMovie is also a lot faster and smooth. All in all the new versions rock. iPhoto has one new feature that makes the upgrade a must-have for me- the slide shows now automatically time to the music chosen. Love that!
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I am so looking forward to this new iPhoto.

With 5500 and 12 gig of photos I am finding iPhoto 04' now slow and painful without subfolders. Plus adding meta data to each and every photo manually drives me nutz. Is that process any faster under iPhoto?
 
iphoto 5 is a dog on my ibook 700mhz. It was so slow importing my photos and it froze during updating of my library. I ran it on my mac mini and it is exponentially faster. I wouldn't want to run it on a G3
 
mowogg said:
iMovie is also a lot faster and smooth. All in all the new versions rock. . Love that!
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iMovie doesn't rock... The sharing feature doesn't work at all... Also, how do you edit volume now?...
 
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