How can I reduce the size of IPhoto ?

patrick

in particular because I can no longer locate the files of these pictures.

There are three ways (at least) to get files from the iPhoto Window.

1. Drag and Drop: Drag a photo from the iPhoto Window to the desktop, there iPhoto will make a full-sized copy of the pic.

2. File -> Export: Select the files in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Export. The dialogue will give you various options, including altering the format, naming the files and changing the size. Again, producing a copy.

3. Show File: Right- (or Control-) Click on a pic and in the resulting dialogue choose 'Show File'. A Finder window will pop open with the file already selected.

Rolls in the iPhoto Window (View -> Film Rolls) correspond exactly with the Roll Folders in the Originals Folder in the iPhoto Library Folder. You can move photos between Rolls, you can rename rolls, edit them, create them, as long as you do it via the iPhoto Window. Check out the Info Pane (wee 'i', lower left) the name and date fields are editable. Edit a Roll Name using the Info Pane, the Roll Folder in iPhoto Library Folder/Originals will also have the new name.

You might also like to explore the iPhoto tutorials at http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/iphoto/index.html

Use the Get Info window to remove unwanted language resources.

Regards

TD

I removed all pictures from IPhoto, but the application shows a size of 600 Mb.

That's because the application (in /Applications) is 600 MB.

Your pictures were stored in 3 folders under your home folder:

/Pictures/iPhoto Library/Originals (the pictures that you imported)
/Pictures/iPhoto Library/Data (the thumbnails for those pictures)
/Pictures/iPhoto Library/Modified (the modified versions of any pics you changed)

Now that you know where the pictures go, it's important that you also be aware if you decide to use iPhoto again that you should not make any direct changes to these folders or their contents after the pictures have been imported. Instead use the built-in features iPhoto to handle all file management.

Edit: If you are set against using iPhoto, you can delete the application from /Applications. If you change your mind later you can reinstall iLife from your DVD

See the previous post--the size of the iPhoto application without the photos is about 500MB--mine is 552MB.