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Mac Forum / Country Specific / UK Mac Group / August 2007iPhoto = iGoSlow
This iPhoto 6.0.6 I'm running is starting to get really slow. It has just a few short of 10,000 images in it. It's running on an iMac G5 2.0 with 1GB of RAM - I wouldn't have thought it would be quite this slow. Anyway, is the new version any faster with big libraries?  Signatureremove stars for email g*a*r*y*c*o*w*e*l*l*a*t*m*a*c*d*o*t*c*o*m Stargazing blog at <http://tinyurl.com/398eom> > This iPhoto 6.0.6 I'm running is starting to get really slow. It has just a > few short of 10,000 images in it. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Anyway, is the new version any faster with big libraries? Guess it's not worth getting then :-( Signatureremove stars for email g*a*r*y*c*o*w*e*l*l*a*t*m*a*c*d*o*t*c*o*m Stargazing blog at <http://tinyurl.com/398eom> > > This iPhoto 6.0.6 I'm running is starting to get really slow. It has just a > > few short of 10,000 images in it. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Guess it's not worth getting then :-( Maybe it is so good that everyone with the new one is too busy playing with their photos? SignatureWoody www.alienrat.com > Maybe it is so good that everyone with the new one is too busy playing > with their photos? Perhaps. I don't know if ~10,000 photos is a big library or not. I mean, I've read posts from people saying that iPhoto is poor with big libraries but I'm not so sure what a big library is. Or if new versions are better. Signatureremove stars for email g*a*r*y*c*o*w*e*l*l*a*t*m*a*c*d*o*t*c*o*m Stargazing blog at <http://tinyurl.com/398eom> > > > Maybe it is so good that everyone with the new one is too busy playing [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > read posts from people saying that iPhoto is poor with big libraries but I'm > not so sure what a big library is. Or if new versions are better. Duuno. I have 6,600 photos in my library, which doesn't strike me as particularly big, but then it isn't slow and it is on an old G4. I do have another 1000 or so in aperture on a different machine though. SignatureWoody www.alienrat.com >> >> > Maybe it is so good that everyone with the new one is too busy playing [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] >particularly big, but then it isn't slow and it is on an old G4. >I do have another 1000 or so in aperture on a different machine though. I've 9000 or so, and iPhoto 7 is rather faster working than 6 but it's still a bit of a laggy dog. On a c2d/2.16GHz with 2gig ram MacBook. Cheers - Jaimie Signature'Rings! Rings! Wherever they may be I am the Lord of the Rings,' said he 'And I'll find them all, wherever they may be And I'll bind them all in the dark,' said he -- Kevin Ahearn > I've 9000 or so, and iPhoto 7 is rather faster working than 6 but it's > still a bit of a laggy dog. On a c2d/2.16GHz with 2gig ram MacBook. I inferred from Jobs' description of the new iPhoto that performance is generally addressed by subdividing things into events. Cheers, Chris >> I've 9000 or so, and iPhoto 7 is rather faster working than 6 but it's >> still a bit of a laggy dog. On a c2d/2.16GHz with 2gig ram MacBook. > >I inferred from Jobs' description of the new iPhoto that performance is >generally addressed by subdividing things into events. (iPhoto'08, of course) The browse-by-events is a lot quicker than the old browse-by-rolls and I love it. Clicking into an event and then browsing photos is quick. Browse all pictures is much the same as '06. Starting up and shutting down is a bit quicker. All in all an improvement, but it's still painfully slow to start up and find a particular photo - which is my normal use case. Event browsing makes up for it, for me. Cheers - Jaimie Signature"other e-mail programs like Eudora are not designed to enable virus replication." Microsoft implicitly admits Outlook Express design criteria at http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/office/2001/virus_alert.asp (you'll have to prepend that with http://web.archive.org/web/20010413120903/ ) > All in all an improvement, but it's still painfully slow to start up > and find a particular photo - which is my normal use case. Event > browsing makes up for it, for me. Do you look for things by scrolling, or do you use keywords? Keywords got a bit of a revamp in iPhoto 7. Cheers, Chris > > All in all an improvement, but it's still painfully slow to start up > > and find a particular photo - which is my normal use case. Event > > browsing makes up for it, for me. > > Do you look for things by scrolling, or do you use keywords? Keywords > got a bit of a revamp in iPhoto 7. A very good revamp, from what I've seen (though it couldn't be much worse). I'd like to see a review that concentrates on the keyword functionality because I think it's something that might get me buying iLife... ...and then badgering Apple to add it to iTunes. -zoara- Signaturedefecation occurs >> > All in all an improvement, but it's still painfully slow to start up >> > and find a particular photo - which is my normal use case. Event [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >A very good revamp, from what I've seen (though it couldn't be much >worse). Since I only recently ported my thousands of photos over to iPhoto6, I'd only just started keywording them. Upping to iPhoto'08 bemused me for a few minutes as keywords appeared on the screen but I couldn't find the UI for them. Once I did, all was well again. >I'd like to see a review that concentrates on the keyword >functionality because I think it's something that might get me buying >iLife... Okay. In iPhoto'08 (ie iPhoto7...) each picture can have none or more keywords (can be multiword phrases) associated with them. These keywords can be allocated shortcut keys, so you can go through cmd-tagging photos then press "l" to mark them all as landscapes, frexample. Once you've done that, you can use keywords in Smart Folder queries, with the usual "equals" "contains" "does not contain" etc choices. You can also sort by keywords when in Photos views. That seems to be about it, though - you can't do the handy click-and-only-see-that-category that you could in iPhoto'06, as far as I can see. Events, unfortunately, do not interact with keywords. They're not keywordable themselves and nor can you pass a keyword onto all photos without entering the event, select all, allocate keyword. >...and then badgering Apple to add it to iTunes. Yeah. Cheers - Jaimie SignatureThere's no place like 127.0.0.1 |
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