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download iPhoto Buddy it is really sweet

Creates multiple libraries.  It increases the speed significantly.

Once it gets between 200-500 and above (depending on the speed of your machine) it will get so slow you wont be able to stand it....

I've got 689 photos at 1 - 2mb each.  It doesn't load slow for me.  One bounce and about 3 seconds to full start.  Of  course this is with a 1.6 G5.  But I don't know what it is or remeber with my G4's or G3's.  But even with them it didn't seem slow.   

Just from my experience.  Not saying it isn't for others.  But I've never had a problem with it loading quickly.

Could it be keeping permissions in place and hard drive defragged continiously?  I am anal about keeping my system checked and clean.  Though I know I don't have to, especially with OS X.     Just a remnant of my Windows days.

One of my many quirks.

Once it gets between 200-500 and above (depending on the speed of your machine) it will get so slow you wont be able to stand it....

Or you could just be a whiner, since I have double the library size of yours and it used to be bigger and yeah it gets slower, but not OH SO SLO HELP ME AAAHHHH IM A LITTLE BABY slow.                          

I am using iPhoto Library Manager from versiontracker to manage multiple libraries and it works great.  I have 2 large libraries and several small ones.  The big ones contain 6,500 photos and 14,000 photos, each.  These are mostly 400-500kb photos each.  Sure, both of them take 30 seconds or so to load, but after that, iPhoto is just as zippy as always, with very few problems.

Of course, I am running 1.5 GB ram on a dually, and that certainly helps.   

Yeah, I don't use it much but when I do, it loads my 10,000+ images real slow. Like I can go shower and come back it it should be done... that's on a G3 600 mHz.

I have about 1200 photos of 1MB each and I also find it a bit slow. It takes about half a minute to load but it's ok after that. I also have a rather old g4/400 so maybe it's time for an upgrade.

iSlowto.

LOL HAHAHAHA




No.

I've got some 6,000 images in iPhoto and while it may take some 30 seconds or so for all of them to load, it moves quickly once everything is up...

800 Mhz iMac.

iPhoto is a horrible app. I haven't used it in a long time. The directory it creates is a nightmare and reminds me of Windows. The alias thing has always bugged me too. I just created my own, very organized library of photos. I'm a photographer, so I have thousands of large images on my hard drive. My folder system is a piece of cake to back up onto CD.

Uploading : Image Capture
Editing : Photoshop
Viewing : Graphic Converter, sometimes Preview.

iPhoto =

IPHOTO IS THE SUX AND IT MAKES ME    AND IT MAKES ME WANT TO MAKE STUFF DIE1!!!!



... and stuff

You are a very aggressive person Chewie.  I'm using iPhoto Buddy and I find it to be a good method about controlling my iPhoto library.