“Have you ever wondered where all those gigabytes went between the moment you bought a new Mac and the moment you looked at the amount of free disk space after using the computer for a while? Sure, formatting wastes some space, and it’s only natural that some more is lost when translating new and improved gigabytes back to classic gigabytes. But the real culprit is iPhoto. This application uses such an unbelievable amount of disk space, that we can only conclude Apple’s iPhoto group is receiving kickbacks from the hard drive manufacturing industry,” Iljitsch van Beijnum reports for Ars Technica.
Full article here.
and its slooow
This is absolutely true. Worst program out of the iBunch.
Uhhhh… my 4500 photos averaging 1.24mb’s apiece is gonna take some space. Let alone keeping track of edits, thumbnails and photo information. I never thought it took that much space.
Slow and not so intuitive like most of Apple software.
Has anyone here tried Monolingual (http://monolingual.sourceforge.net/) to trim out the unneeded foreign languange fat?
look where the most of iPhoto’s usage is….
It’s in the cache that it makes of iPod sized photos. Every pic, big or small, gets made into a 176k image that iTunes downloads to the iPod. This pre-digested image is just the right size for a 4g iPod to display efficently and scroll through quickly.
Does the 5g iPod make a bigger image? I might because it has a bigger screen.
Or “language” for that matter?
Of all the iProducts, iPhoto is the worst hands down. It’s slow, not nearly as intuitive as the rest of the apps, and bloated. I hope the next revision of the iLife suite offers a massive overhaul of iPhoto.
Who cares? HD space is cheap.
My iMac has a 250GB drive, my iPhoto has about 8,000 current pictures in it. In total, I have about 190GB available. Not going to fill that up anytime soon.
I have also gotten into the habit of archiving older photographs to CD (or DVD), but iPhoto can handle up to 250,000 photos.
So other photo management apps on the market don’t take up a lot of space either? Do they have some magic compression scheme or something?
Oh, and a dedicated spreadsheet app with PIVOT TABLES and other advanced analysis tools (are you listening Apple?) would be nice as well.
http://forums.macrumors.com/archive/index.php/t-195896.html
It is one Apple’s best apps. Why do you think Google has a plug-in for it? They decided to not create a Picase for Mac, since iPhoto is so good.
Hey, what’s wrong with you guys? I find iPhoto to work perfectly well with the thousands of images that I have scaled to 1024×768 jpeg high quality (~400k a piece max). iPhoto lets me take my pix with me on the road, etc. It’s great for what it’s made for: consumer-grade, small camera, low megapixel images.
I use Aperture (at home) and Lightroom (on the go) to manage my main photo libraries off my boot drives.
iPhoto is not meant to handle thousands of RAW or high megapixel images – no wonder HD space is going to fill up fast and poor iPhoto acts like it’s a sloth on the run.
As far as I am concerned, all Apple apps are slow and consume enormous amount of disc space. Is that a plot from teh Steve to make us upgrade faster? I wish not.
Add to that, the fact that some people transfer hundreds of photos from their cameras from which maybe one or two are even worth keeping.
Isn’t part of the issue is that iPhoto keeps two copies of every photo, your current edited version and the original so you can go back to it at any time?
Also if you don’t empty the iPhoto trash things can get ugly after a while.
What an amazingly, unecessarily biased piece! Every word has been chosen to be ‘accurate’, yet negatve, for no real gain. I’m surprised ars have hosted this sensationalist piece.
My main beef is that it saves originals when you simply rotate the image. This is a lossless process, and it’s completely reversible. They should save originals for all other kinds of edits, but saving 2 photos for every photo that needs to be rotated is overkill.
funny. iPhoto is my favorite of the iLife bunch.
Come on there!
The iPhoto on my MBPro has 4015 pix, averaging 20+ mb each when opened.
It takes just 8 seconds to fire up!!!
For me, it’s a simple and elegant way to store stuff, prior to PShop work.
No problems with iPhoto.
Use iPhoto Manager, and every 6 months/1 year create a new Library, and archive the current one to external HD/DVD.
Easy.
I think many of Apple’s apps are A-Ok, but iPhoto does need help. I used the first versions of it and it was unuseably slow with several hundred photos – my understanding is that later versions were measurably improved with regard to speed, but I never went back and I keep getting reminded by those that continue to use iPhoto with relatively large photo libraries how slow it still is compared to other things. Over the last several years I’ve used both iView (now a MS subsidiary), and more recently MediaOne. With both programs I can manage many thousands of pictures and movie clips on even a moderately fast Mac, without much trouble with regard to speed or reliability. iView is not as intuitive as iPhoto or MediaOne, but its no slouch for speed, and its way too expensive, I think – but it works. My daughter uses iView to manage about 5000+ photos on a strawberry iMac, and my wife and I manage over 10,000 photos with MediaOne on a G4 dual 450 and a CoreDuo iMac. One thing I like about MediaOne is that it has several different levels of usage to accomodate even very large industrial online libraries – its more scalable. The basic version costs about $50 bucks.
No, I think iPhoto needs quite a bit of work, and my personal problem with it still puts proprietary headers on the photo files so that they can not be opened with anything except iPhoto, unless you want to be exporting evertime you want to get a picture or groups of pictures out of it – don’t like that. There are several very good photo management tools out there for the Mac besides iPhoto, and I would say all them are better than iPhoto for speed, and for ease of getting photos in and out.
I have 3,410 photos, mostly RAW images..it took 9 seconds to start up and get working in ipHoto.
iPhoto sucks…….atleast the initial version. i dumped it and haven’t looked back.
iMedia Pro rocks
Yip, iphoto is sluggish and a hog. It sux at redeye too, apple needs to put a little more work into it.
Actually, i think Picassa for the PC is much better, wish Google would come out with a mac version.