Q: Photo Libraries - advice/guidance
I have just the 1 photo library which contains 25,000 photos in albums. All of these photos are in folder order by the way I put the folders together, ie
- 2016 January Mum's birthday
- 2016 January trip to London
The problem I am finding is it's causing photos to be very slow and I get the spinning wheel alot of the time so just have to sit and wait.
I was thinking about splitting the library into archives of each year but before I venture into this I have a couple of issues:
1. if you have lots of libraries how do you go about making photo books that span over several years?
2. If you want to look at face recognition for a specific person and all the photos are in different libraries how does that work? (I am assuming if you have 20 archive albums you have to look at each library?
I make lots of photo books for gifts so I am just concerned if I split everything out into different archive libraries it's going to cause me more work in the long run.
Any help or guidance would really be appreciated.
Thanks
iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.2)
Posted on May 22, 2016 3:46 AM
The problem I am finding is it's causing photos to be very slow and I get the spinning wheel alot of the time so just have to sit and wait.
The size of the library should not cause slowness, so splitting the library will not help; it will just make it impossible to search across libraries, and to access all photos from the media browser.
My library has 40000 photos and I do not see the spinning wheel at all in Photos.
1. if you have lots of libraries how do you go about making photo books that span over several years?
2. If you want to look at face recognition for a specific person and all the photos are in different libraries how does that work? (I am assuming if you have 20 archive albums you have to look at each library?
To create a book or a slideshow, you would have to move all photos you need for this to the same library. PowerPhotos can help to move photos between libraries, but frankly, I would avoid to have to split the library and find the reason for the slowness.
Typical reasons for Photos being slow could be:
- Your system drive might be running out of storage. Do you have at least 10 GB of free storage on your system drive?
- Background processing after importing photos - the rendering of previews and face recognition need a lot of time. Do you give Photos enough time to complete the background processing after importing photos and videos? Let it run over night to get this done.
- The Photos library may have a corruption. Then it would help to repair the library.
- Network access. is your Photos library stored on an NAS? That is not recommended.
- Cleaning software. If you let applications like CleanMyMac remove the auxiliary files from your library, Photos will be slow, because it has to recreate them whenever you launch Photos again.
- Photos will be slower than usual. if you are using cloud Photo Library with Optimize storage enabled, because the photos have to be downloaded from iCloud.
- If your library contains media that cannot be processed, Photo may get stuck on processing items it cannot process. Do you have videos or Photos with unusual format in your library?
Posted on May 22, 2016 7:47 AM
