iPhoto '09 8.0.3 Update - iPhoto painfully slow now

i've tryed nearly everything here - but iPhoto is unusable slow. To rename a event freezes iPhoto for 90 seconds.

» 800 events
» 39.933 images

i've a dual 2.5 GHz G5 with 8GB Memory but since the 8.0.3 Update the iPhoto is not longer a usable application …

I think it's obvious that iPhoto has a problem. Not an isolated incident and no workarounds available.

What's iPhoto when it's making us wait anyway?!? Apple, please fix iPhoto and issue an update SOON!

1 - Note that this is strictly a user to user forum and asking Apple to fix anything here - it accomplishes nothing - reporting it to Apple - iPhoto menu ==> provide iPhoto feedback will

2 - be sure that all iPhoto sharing preferences are off and that item count is off

3 - give iPhoto time to get past what ever it does that uses so much CPU

For me while iPhoto does hang up from time to time the vast majority of the time it is as good or better than it was before the 8.0.3 update

I have almost 30,000 photos on a 2.1 GHz G5 with 2.5 GB of memory

LN

1. I reported this to Apple a few days ago.
2. I have taken all steps suggested on this forum, which have helped some but not much.
3. I have iPhoto running much of the time, but it never gets over the problem of frequently spinning the beach ball for minor things such as photo modifications, using faces, opening the application, renaming something, importing new photos. It eventually works, but it is very S-L-O-W for many tasks which used to be routine.
4. I am running my big photo library on a mac pro with 3 TB of storage on 4 internal drives with lots of spare, 12 GB of 667 MHz memory, 2x3 GHZ dual-core Intel Xeon processor. There are 46,500 photos in my main library. The problems are with this big library, not smaller libraries.

I'm having all the SLOW problems discussed in this thread.

I've taken all the recommended fix'em steps. Helped for a while, but the VERY latest upgrade (about a week ago) brought back most of the slowness. (But no longer just a Faces & Places problem).

I do have a large (??) number of Smart Albums (about 60). I'd hate to delete them (some have 5 or 10 criteria) but I will, if they are likely the problem.

What do you think?

I deleted all my Smart Albums, all 5 of them, and there was no noticeable improvement. I didn't use a stopwatch, but iPhoto is still felt as slow as ever.

At this point, I'm just waiting for the next update.

turn off item counts
(preferences - general)

It does make a difference. Missing item counts on over 55,000 photos though....

Catherine

That is a big help


In the iPhoto preferences:


1 - turn off item counts
2 - turn off all sharing
3 - set web gallery updated to manual

These will help - most of the time I find iPhoto very snappy now - once in a while it goes off the deep end for a while and all I can do is wait (Safari 4 does that from time to time also)

LN

For those that have benefited from my initial post of turning off item counts a few months ago, I have since turned back on item counts with only a very small slowdown to speed. Turning off any background indexing apps ie. TM, FV, etc. also appears to help with speed increases as we have noted - lean and mean.

Since we use item counts linked to 80 smart filters, showing item counts is very helpful as we use the numbers to reconcile and sort our database as we want and need. The caveat is to keep F&P and editing to a minimum ie. do all this with item counts off, then turn it back on after.

Again, re-read our threads as some other points may also help you out. The more that complain to Apple feedback the higher it will go on the squeaky wheel scale. 😉

Ahhh, I feel so good. Reading this format relieves my paranoia that it was just me!

I love iPhoto, but I swear that ever since the 8.03 update, I have had nothing but hangs, crashes and beach balls. I even lost my original iphoto library and had to extract the files and rebuild using iPhoto Library Manager - it wouldn't even open the library before hanging and I have had to force quit the **** thing so many times! I think I have sent them more than a dozen reports from forced quitting.. I am even doing it again as I write this.... I have had the beach ball thing going for about 6 minutes now simply after uploading a pic to facebook... at least it got far enough to actually upload this time..

The sooner Apple fixes this the better! I can't go back, as it seems earlier versions of iPhoto won't recognise the updated library! Otherwise, I am looking elsewhere for software that is at least stable.

misery likes company...

when there are photos in an email and I click on save 'add to iphoto' it doesn't work anymore!?
(since 8.03)

Yeah Tim, 8.0.3 is a real dog.

If Microsoft had broken a good software package as badly as Apple has broken iPhoto09, there would be a really funny "I'm a Mac" ad on TV already. As it is, the situation is not so funny.

Read all the posts in this thread. Most of the suggestions help a bit. I've had a LITTLE improvement by turning of "Counts" and by deleting any "Face" criteria in Smart Albums. I also deleted the iPhoto.plist file and fix all my permissions.

Rebuilding the Library didn't seem to help.

iPhoto 8.1 is significantly better! It's still slow, but usable. The best iPhoto so far and hopefully more speed improvements to come. Some functions still appear to use only one core.