Apple today released iPhoto 5.0.3 which addresses issues with Tiger compatibility, Book and Print ordering, and Smart Albums. Requires Mac OS X 10.3.4 through 10.3.9, or 10.4.2 or later.
– On Tiger, images are no longer color-shifted after editing
– (Mac OS X 10.4.2 update required)
– Book layouts will not change when moving an image on a page
– An issue was addressed that caused some book orders to be cancelled
– Smart Albums will display correctly in other iLife applications
iPhoto 5.0.3 Update is available via Software Update. More info and standalone update (39.2MB) link here.
iPhoto is so damn slow. even on dual processor G5’s. why can’t apple get this little thing right. google’s picaso is lightning fast, on even a slow machine… whats the damn deal!
Go back under the rock from which you crawled.
I have a couple thousand photos and iPhoto runs pretty darn fast for me. Of course, I’m more into music than photos, so if I got over 5000 photos it might slow down dramatically, but at 2600+ photos, I can’t complain about speed.
Yeah, doesn’t he know that the MDN feedback section is only for praising Apple and worshiping the ground Steve Jobs walks on?
But seriously. He’s got a point… I wouldn’t say that iPhoto sucks, I actually really like it, but it is painfully slow. 🙁
Iphoto is fine
1st launch iphoto and under view select each of the sort options. I think this reindexes the photos
2nd if its still slugish defrag your drive, Idefrag is what I use.
I have 8404 2.5mb photos and is runs great!
But I did have a problem like you described!
I’ve read numerous articles that say defragging you drive is not a good idea. Mac OSX handles defragging on it’s own.
Great! My porn collection will be easier to manage. At 25,000+ pics, it’s no picnic!
I also read that defrag is not nessary but it made a big difference for me the first time I ran it there was over 2000 iphoto files fragmented. The whole system is much quicker. I also run Virtual pc and it runs alot faster, It actually moved the whole vp disk image and by doing so defraged it
defrag? boy, that brings back memories… viruses, scandisc, msconfig, reboots, safe mode…
Apple says that there is “little benefit to defragmentation” on OSX, and that it may actually decrease performance. The only time you might conceivably need to defrag OSX, according to Apple, is if your drives are almost full or you edit large files like video a lot (not iMovie).
There are a few utilities that allow you to break up your iPhoto library into several smaller libraries, and choose which one you wish to use when you start iPhoto. This will increase performance dramatically.
Picasa is great for windows users who want to use iPhoto… but if you have access to iPhoto, use it, its faster and pretty much, Picasa is iPhoto with commercialism… i LOVE Picasa for what it does, dont get me wrong, but IF i had a choice, I would certainly be using iPhoto.
Spotlight still is not indexing my iPhoto keywords. Any idea how to accomplish this? I tried to place force Spotlight to reindex the entire drive volume with no iPhoto success…
Hooray! Apple has solved the pesky colour change problem when editing. I guess they do read their own discussion groups after all.
I thought you could open iPhoto with alt key to choose a library to open…?