“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.
It’s a chore to have to load the entire picture catalog every time the program boots. Whose bright idea was this?
I wish iPhoto were more like the older versions of ACDSee…
– fast loading
– fast viewing of directories
– easy navigation (Windows-style/Explorer navigation)
– quick full-screen view, quick zoom
– fast operation (doesn’t bog down as you the photo catalog builds up)
– easy management (simple to move photo locations around)
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Better yet… I wish ACDSee were written for Macs again.
previous versions of iPhoto were indeed slow, but not newer versions, especially on the new Intel Macs
5000 photos, 16.4GB opens in 2sec on iMac Core 2 Duo 2.33GHz 2GB RAM, iPhoto 6.0.5
Hardly what you would call slow…
even on my previous iMac G4 1.25GHz, performance was reasonable with latest iPhoto (but admittedly painfully slow with iPhoto 5 and prior)
As soon as I bought iLife ’06 for my 15″ powerbook a year ago I deleted iPhoto and Garageband as I have no use for either. Aperture is definitely the way to go. I’m sure it takes up just as much space but the options and organizing are so much nicer. I’m not really a photo-book editor or theme-needer so iPhoto just had nothing to offer. I don’t know how normal this is but I only have 1417 images and that takes up 2.16GB in one neat, cute white block.
>bc wrote: 2sec on iMac Core 2 Duo 2.33GHz 2GB RAM, iPhoto 6.0.5
I’m using iPhoto v 6.0.5 (316) on a MBP 2.33 GHz Core 2 Duo 2GB RAM … and I get nowhere near that speed.
Bootup measurement using 1-1000-2-1000 method took 12 seconds to loaad 4700 pictures. Clicking on a menu item (FILE) took about 2 seconds to respond. Double-clicking on a photo to edit takes another 10 seconds before the operation is released.
Maybe iPhoto works better for lower-res files – Mine are generally 8MP, low-compression jpegs.
My iPhoto is quick on my MBP 2GHz, 2MB ram, BUT it is also quite fast on my old PB 550MHz, 512MB. When I notice a slowdown, I run AppleJack (for cache cleaning and permissions) and SystemOptimizer (for the prebindings and rotating of log files). It’s important that AppleJack cleans the cache files for all users, as well as the system cache.
Usually I do this once a month or so, and it keeps the applications happy.
Wow I am surprised so many people dislike iPhoto. I always felt it was the best of the iApps. It does do much better with lots of RAM but it really isn’t that slow. My 1Ghz PB runs iPhoto 5 just fine, and really it only uses what space it needs for my photos.
Mr. Peabody
“Over the last several years I’ve used both iView (now a MS subsidiary), and more recently MediaOne.”
Where do I find ‘MediaOne’. I Googled it but still couldn’t find it. Anyone with a link to their site?
I recommend iView Media, or iView Media Pro.