[Parky]

I have been using iPhoto since it came out and I am now using version 3.

I currently have 858 photos in my photo library.

The problem is when I burn my full library to a CD via iPhoto, it claims there are over 3000 photos in there. During the creation of the disc image iPhoto starts to complain that photos are missing and I have to click OK to skip them.

Now I did have many more photos in iPhoto but I deleted them using the usual delete function of iPhoto (selecting the photos and pressing the delete key). I have also emptied the iPhoto trash and checked that the photos no longer exist on my drive.

It seems that the index or reference file for iPhoto still thinks the photos are there.

If I select all my photos except 1, the burn works fine stating that 857 photos are being burned.

it seems that when you select all your photos, iPhoto recognises that you want to do all your iPhoto library and seems to resurect a full list of all the photos that have ever been present in it.

The question is, does this affect performance when I use iPhoto, it does appear to be slower than it was.

Can I rebuild the index somehow?

Ian

[mcsjgs]

Originally posted by Parky:
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Can I rebuild the index somehow?

Ian

This may or may not be helpful. File Vault corrupted my Itunes library file (the index or database of all my songs). It would not load when I started up I tunes, so Itunes did not recognize any songs although all 15 GB of songs were still there.

I trashed the library file in Itunes and started up Itunes again. All the playlists were gone, but Itunes rebuilt the library file and will now recognize all songs.

After looking at the pictures folder in my home folder, I see that Iphoto is named Iphoto library. You do not want to delete this. Inside the Iphoto library folder are two files. One of these will be the equivalent of the Itunes library file. I am sorry I do not know which one.

I do not know if Iphoto will do the same (rebulid the index if the old index is trashed). Use at your own risk.