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Scanning and Importing 5000 Photos into iPhoto
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So I plan on slowly scanning all of my family's photo albums into iPhoto over the next year. It's about 5000 photos. Will iPhoto be able to handle this without being god-awfully slow? Does anyone have an iPhoto Library with like 7000 photos in it? Any suggestions on this process?
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Do you have the latest version of iPhoto? I'd get it, if not. It'll be able to handle that amount better than older versions which could choke on large numbers.
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Originally Posted by iDriveX
So I plan on slowly scanning all of my family's photo albums into iPhoto over the next year. It's about 5000 photos. Will iPhoto be able to handle this without being god-awfully slow? Does anyone have an iPhoto Library with like 7000 photos in it? Any suggestions on this process?
I'm doing the same thing right now. I have a 4th gen. powerbook, which came with iPhoto 5. So far, I've put about 1500 photos in, and it handles them w/o any problems. About 800 of the photos were slides that I scanned using a Nikon Coolscan V. I will also be scanning negatives, using this scanner as well. I am using an inexpensive Canon Lide50 scanner for those photos for which the negatives don't exist anymore.
One thing I am doing. I am using Photoshop Elements software to edit the scanned photos, rather than iPhoto 5. I think Photoshop offers more flexibility in working with your pictures, and none of the "reported problems" in editing photos with iPhoto 5.
Oh yes, one final thing. The Nikon Coolscan V is really nice.
Good luck on your project. I hope to have mine finished in a couple of months.
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My library has 14,000 photos and isn't ridiculously slow. It's slow to open and close iPhoto, but once open it runs well.
PowerBook 1,67ghz 1GB RAM. iPhoto '05
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I plan on doing the same soon. Is there anyway to semi-automate this using Automator? Anyone tried it? Can you control the scanning software through Automator? Thx.
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Originally Posted by PurpleGiant
My library has 14,000 photos and isn't ridiculously slow. It's slow to open and close iPhoto, but once open it runs well.
PowerBook 1,67ghz 1GB RAM. iPhoto '05
I have about 4500 pictures (13 GB worth of it), and yeah it's slow at opening and especially closing. It works fine else.
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