[Macpilot]

Hello guys....

I really love the speed of the new iPhoto, BUT:

I have 644 photos (most digital, some scanned) in my iPhoto 4.0 Library. I have 1 Gig of Ram and run Cocktail religiously. I have not hacked iPhoto in any way.

I have run into a problem (I hope it is a bug and not my photos) wherein during the clicking of the Next button in the Edit view, some photos will lock up iPhoto. By "lock up", I mean I can no longer use iPhoto, unless I switch to another application, then click back to iPhoto.

Also, another wierd thing that happens during this phenomena is the photos that lock up iPhoto show a photo number (the number that displays in a sequence of your total number of photos in the Library) that is totally wrong, something like..."-2345678900 of 644 photos".

Has anyone else had this kind of thing happen?

I tried trashing the iPhoto .plist file and restarting iPhoto but it did not fix the problem. The only other thing I regularly do is delete the Originals from the hard drive, just to save a little space, but I would not think that would cause this problem.

[Powaqqatsi]

Originally posted by Macpilot:
The only other thing I regularly do is delete the Originals from the hard drive, just to save a little space, but I would not think that would cause this problem.

what do you mean ?

[Macpilot]

Well, apparently iPhoto keeps a copy of the original photo after you have cropped it or edited it in some way. This takes up disk space. I just do a Finder search for Originals and delete them.

[ryju]

Originally posted by Macpilot:
Well, apparently iPhoto keeps a copy of the original photo after you have cropped it or edited it in some way. This takes up disk space. I just do a Finder search for Originals and delete them.

I think that is a bad idea, this never happens to me. I have over 1000 photos and have never needed to delete the originals. Even on a 10GB HD.

[Macpilot]

Well, my "60" gig hard drive (55 actual gigs) in my Powerbook has only 5 gigs left, so I am trying to keep it at that supposedly recommended no less than 10% free space.

[ryju]

Originally posted by Macpilot:
Well, my "60" gig hard drive (55 actual gigs) in my Powerbook has only 5 gigs left, so I am trying to keep it at that supposedly recommended no less than 10% free space.

Then perhaps you should try deleting other things rather than crucial images needed by iPhoto.

[JellyBeen]

Originally posted by ryju:
Then perhaps you should try deleting other things rather than crucial images needed by iPhoto.

Thats not correct ryju, I delete my originals all the time with this handy "free" utility called iPhoto Diet.
Get it here>> http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/16463

I never experiences freezes. I read somewhere that the new iPhoto does display incorrectly for some users. But like I said, no problems here.