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ApplePie · Nov 2, 2006, 01:36 PM

Hi I'm a new mac user, just bought an entry level macbook. I'm importing some raw images I shot on my canon digital rebel with iPhoto and it's literally taking 20+ minutes for 38 images. That's with the camera connected directly to the macbook via usb2.0.
That's just way too long. It never took anywhere near that long on my old PC running and Athlon 2000 chip with either windows import or picasa.

There has got to be something set wrong, am I right? It should only take maybe 5 minutes tops for an entire 512MB CF card.

Another thing I've noticed is that iPhoto doesn't show you little thumbnail previews of your images before you import. Allowing you to select which ones you want to import. Even the basic windows import allows you to do that. So I've got to believe something is also set wrong there.

Any help would be great, thanks.

ApplePie · Nov 3, 2006, 01:22 AM

No one has any clue why this is? Come one guys I'm feeling a little cheated now. I've gotten such great mac support in my prebuying stage from the mac community as a whole but now that I own one I can't get my questions answered? It's been 12 hours and there are hundreds of people here at any given moment. Is this just some rare crazy thing or is this normal and no one wants to tell me that?

Please help I've got a photo shoot tomorrow and I was looking to take my new macbook to pass the photos onto when the CF card gets full. But if it's going to take 20+ minutes for 38 images that will never work.

I really need to figure this out or does iPhoto just suck in general?

jbleisure · Nov 3, 2006, 07:03 AM

Hi, I can't really offer a solution beyond saying that isn't right. It shouldn't be taking that long. If you are a very new user then you have some support options from apple even if you didn't take out apple care so you could utilize them otherwise you could try reinstalling iphoto once you've backed up any existing photos.

By the way you should verify and then repair permisssions applications>utilities>disk utility

after you update software. Try that first.

badidea · Nov 3, 2006, 09:33 AM

I cannot comment the speed for importing raw images because my camera does jpg!

All I can say is that there's no error that you don't see any thumbnail previews - this is a missing feature that bugs me as well quite a bit!!!!!!!!

Azzgunther · Nov 3, 2006, 09:39 AM

I personally hate iPhoto for its slowness, among other reasons. Use "Image Capture" to upload your pictures to the Macbook. That application is in your Applications folder.