iPhoto 11 very slow and hangs up the computer continuously

Sorry for third reply in a row, but nevermind. iPhoto '11 just crashed on me. Just tested Picasa and not one hiccup!

Officially going back to Picasa now. Huge Apple supporter but sorry, iPhoto '11 is not for me. 😟

Interesting about the scanning of Faces - do you really think this is done in the background? It seems that scanning for faces only happens when you're in the Faces pane... Would be great if that is a process that you can get through and get fast again.

I have 22,000 photos and have not had too much slowdowns so far - as long as I'm not running Parallels at the same time.

I'm not ready to give up on iPhoto yet - hopefully they'll fix it. Would lose a lot of metadata, projects, events, faces, etc. if I jumped ship.

So **** slow after updating from '08 to '11.
Especially the editing feature, when you zoom in the photo and navigating in it, wow! So slow.
Scrolling down and up is slower too.
Disappointed.

I'm running a late 2006 Mac Pro with 8Gb Ram and more than 50% free space on the boot volume. My iPhoto library is not on the boot volume.

iPhoto 11 (or 9, whatever it's called) is horrible on my machine. It hangs iPhoto and the whole machine for minutes on end, and the iPhoto window goes all streaky when it comes back.

It's unusable for me. I've left feedback with Apple and hopefully lots of other people will too.

For now I'm using a trial of Aperture to work with my iPhoto library.

As I upgraded my iPhoto library and have added a bunch of stuff to it since I upgraded, I can't even go back a version.

Sorry Apple, fail on this one.

Same problem, doesn't hang (eventually breaks out of process) just takes forever to do anything. Activity monitor shows saturated single thread on just about any activity. Some critical path in a long loop. iPhoto essentially unusable, 16,000 photos, posting to try to get some attention to this problem. QA really dropped the ball on this one.

Plenty of resources available to iPhoto, stuck in a long loop at every turn.

As of now, I'm no longer on iPhoto '11. Using Picasa, and happily so. No lag time whatsoever. It's a shame because Apple is regarded for great media software, but iPhoto '11 is anything but great for a large library.

Add me to the list as well. I have an iMac, purchased 10 months ago, upgraded to iLife '11 and hate it!
Slow to load, crashes, my photos are a mess, flagged photos either disappear or are blurry unless in edit mode. Wish I could uninstall and give this software BACK!!! I already sent my feedback to Apple.

Try booting into Safe Mode and see if iPhoto will launch. If it does reboot and try again.

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Same issue, running on an white iMac first Intel Core Duo 2.

iPhoto hangs and hangs the whole system with it. Strange lines / garbled GUI behavior in iPhoto '11.

I hope apple fixes this soon.

Luckily I have not yet experienced the hanging or sluggish problems that many are seeing but I too searched forever for the Bookshelf project view. I've had plenty of other issues trying to create & print books though

I don't know if this is the way it's supposed to be but I finally found the Project Bookshelf.

It's ONLY accessible while in Full Screen view. When that view is evoked there is a button at the bottom of the screen marked "Projects". Only when clicking this button, while in full screen mode, can I get the Project Bookshelf to appear. There may be another way but if so, it's very well hidden.

Are you referring to iPhoto 11? There is no Projects button in iPhoto's full view or any other view that I can find:

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There's a create button in the toolbar of all views which gives this:

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Well, actually iPhoto 9.1 in iLife 11.

It only works if you've selected Events, Faces or Places from the Library Side Bar. Selecting Photos does not seem to work for me.

When I'm in any of the 3 views mentioned above & click on the full screen view I get a series of buttons across the bottom center of the screen that read Events, Faces, Places, Albums & Projects. Clicking this Projects button takes me to the bookshelf.

Well I'll be. I learn something new here every day.

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I don't think I would have stumbled upon this for a very long time. Thanks.

No problem, It's a treat for somebody like me to teach an expert like you a new trick.

It was a classic case of a blind hog finding an acorn I must admit. I did "stumble" on it completely by accident.

I tried to post a picture but couldn't figure out how.

If you have a server to which you can upload the screenshots you can use this code:

 
 
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This code allows you to post a large image but only display a smaller thumbnail in the post so as not to overwhelm the page.

If you have a MMe account you can put your screenshot in your iDisk/Web/Sites folder and use the following URL: http://web.me.com/MobileMeAccount_Name/FileName