iPhoto '09 8.0.3 Update - iPhoto painfully slow now

Since I updated my iphoto software, I can`t start iphoto again.
There is a message saying that I have to update my mediathek (in english probably library) and iphoto ends. The upcoming window tells me that I can restart. If I restart the same thing happens again. If I press the button ignore nothing happens.
Can anybody help me?

Welcome to the Apple Discussions. Try deleting the iPhoto preference file and try again. Do you have a backup of the library before you ran the updater and launched iPhoto?

If not see if you can do this: launch iPhoto with the Command+Option keys depressed and follow the instructions to rebuild the library. Select options #4 and 5. You might be able to do that over opening the library entirely. Worth a try.

If neither work rebuild the library using iPhoto Library Manager as follows:

Using iPhoto Library Manager to Rebuild Your iPhoto Library

1 -Download iPhoto Library Manager and launch.

2 -Click on the Add Library button, navigate to your User/Pictures folder and select your iPhoto Library folder.

3 - Now that the library is listed in the left hand pane of iPLM, click on your library and go to the File->Rebuild Library menu option

4 - In the next window name the new library and select the location you want it to be placed.

5 - Click on the Create button.

Note: This creates a new library based on the LIbraryData.xml file in the library and will recover Events, Albums, keywords, titles and comments but not books, calendars or slideshows. The original library will be untouched for further attempts at fixing or in case the rebuilt library is not satisfactory .

Spotlight in the Finder hasn't searched iPhoto for several versions now. But the Spotlight background technology is what's used to index the Library so that you can search from iPhoto or a media browser.

Regards

TD

Interesting - I am seeing improvements as I use 8.0.3 more - At first if I launched iPhoto and left it alone for a while (maybe an hour sometimes) if would calm down and be ok (except when Time Machine was running) and work pretty much the same speed as before the upgrade - now it seems to be pretty much the same speed as before the upgrade all the time (and safari 4 is eating my CPU cycles - but that is another story ;( )

Has anyone else seen an improvement over time like iPhoto 8.0.3 finally finished doing something that was jamming things up ??

Anyway - I decided to give up my pre-upgrade clone today and move forward - so going back to 8.0.2 is pretty much not a consideration now


LN

Possibly other background apps like TM etc are slowing this app for some of you. We've discontinued using TM and just use clones now as we don't require constant archiving.

We have limited iPhoto to be an easy access and powerful Database Library that allows simple viewing of events. We edit and keep originals elsewhere so that the size is as small as possible (even though it is 180GB now). Faces, places, smart folders, editing, etc are extra features for us that we use on a limited basis.

Compatibility with Mail and iMovie, etc. are used frequently. Possibly finding and cutting out where the high CPU usage is currently being used, may help. We did have a lot of slowdown with iPhoto '09 faces and places until we turned off everything we didn't really need or use.

We keep Activity Monitor up all the time and it is interesting to track what various apps do to it. Even after apps are closed they don't release it to free space immediately. By combining Terminal commands, Disk Utility, and rebuilding iPhoto, iPhoto works fast. Often we will close all apps except the one we're using so that we have max free space and speed at our disposal. If our RAM is maxed, then everything bogs right down. Our mantra is lean and mean and so far this seems to work for us. Hope this helps.

Add my name to the list. 8.0.3 is much, much slower than 8.0.1 was. I'll try re-installing the update, but right now - especially when trying to use Faces - it's really slow.

BTW - there is no list - and if there were adding you name to it would accomplish nothing

to help have Apple address this you must report it to Apple - iPhoto menu ==.. Provide iPhoto feedback

LN

Well yes, I know there's no literal list. And I did use the feedback form. I don't think it hurts, though, to have more people report their problems on these threads since I'm sure not everyone uses the Apple product feedback forms. BTW: reinstalling 8.0.3 changed nothing for me - sigh.

It does not hurt unless you use this instead of providing feedback to Apple - some people think that posting here gives Apple a heads up - it might but to be sure the feedback is critical

LN

After two days of bog-slow performance, I'm happy to report that 8.0.3 has returned to relatively snappy (though not perfect) performance. Perhaps it really does do something long-term behind the scenes - some sort of indexing - that eats up cycles. In any case, I'm glad it's working better again. I hope others are able to report similar levels of performance improvement over time.

That is what I am seeing - very strange but for the most part iPhoto is slower that 8.0.2 but usable again -- for a few days it was unusable

LN

I'm having the same problem. Minor change to a photo triggers several minutes of the spinning beach ball.