Loading only a portion of the iPhoto library

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Loading only a portion of the iPhoto library

With over 10k photos, it takes way too long to load the entire iPhoto library each time you open iPhoto. Is there any way to load just a portion of the library? For example, just load photos from 2010, or just load the newest X images?

If I want to import some new photos from my camera, why should I have to wait for the entire library to load? Or, if I want to upload some recent photos from my library to Facebook, I don't care about photos from 2006.

Message was edited by: BlueJayWay

iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Jul 13, 2010 8:30 PM

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Answer 1

LarryHN

Level 10

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Jul 13, 2010 8:51 PM in response to Chalkolate

Is there any way to load just a portion of the library?

No

But if you go to the iPhoto preferences and turn off item counts, all sharing options and set all web syncing options to manual it may help

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Answer 2

MadisonP

Level 5

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Jul 13, 2010 9:25 PM in response to Chalkolate

You could also split your library into several smaller libraries.
_Duplicate your entire iPhoto Library
_Open 1 library and delete everything from 2006 earlier (this would be your "current" library)
_Open the other library and delete everything from 2007 and later (this would be your "archive or old" library)

In this fashion you would be loading fewer pictures into memory. Downside would be if you have any albums that have a mix of photos from "before" and "after" the pictures you delete (to free up memory) would no longer be in those Albums.
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10,000 images isn't a ridiculous amount of pictures. How much hard drive space do you have free? How much RAM do you have? What speed processor does your system have?
_Adding more RAM can improve performance in any program that is doing alot.

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