How do I repair iPhoto
I recently saved my iPhoto library onto my iPod, and i didn’t know if it was going to work or not. But it did work and i was very happy. I did not want to re-do all my galleries cause i have a few thousand photos now. But after the move iPhoto would crash on me after about two minutes. Sometimes it would last longer, but i never really used iPhoto for a long period of time.
I just recently got fed up with it and i did some research about how i could speed up iPhoto. Or even stop making iPhoto crash. I only have two tips on how to speed up iPhoto, there are more tips than this. But these two tips worked perfectly for me.
1. Make sure to make a backup copy of your iPhoto Library, which is included in your home directory (example ~/Pictures/iPhoto Library/)
2. If you are running iPhoto 4, Hold down the Shift and Option keys on the keyboard. If you are running iPhoto 5, Hold down the Command and Option keys on the keyboard.
3. Open up iPhoto while doing one of the above commands, depending on your version of iPhoto.
4. Keep holding the keys until either the library is being rebuilt, or you get this dialog.
5. I ran all the options and it took about two hours to do for a few thousand pictures. I don’t really know, i walked away as it did it.
Doing this made iPhoto run better and it never crashed after it. Well i have been using it for three days now and i havn’t had a single problem with it.
Links: Apple Knowledge Base Article about rebuilding the iPhoto database
Categorized as Apple
one thing i did once my iPhoto library became too big (too many albums with too many pictures slows iPhoto down considerably) was create multiple libraries. i think if you do this though, you’d only be able to import one library onto your iPod. To create multiple libraries, hold down OPTION while opening iPhoto, a windo will open that askes you if you want to open an existing library, create a new one, or cancel. click on CREATE to make a new one and it will be made in your Pictures folder. I organize my libraries by the year. so the contents of my Pictures folder is five libraries that look lke this:
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
to get photos from you existing mega-library into a newly created library, do this:
1. drag the photos you want onto your desktop
2. OPTION open iPhoto and create a new library
3. drag the photos from your desktop into iPhoto
4. delete photos from your desktop
5. delete the photos from your original iPhoto library
finally, once you create multiple libraries, you will have to hold down OPTION every time you crank up iPhoto if you want to open a new library, but if you want to open the library thhat was opened most recently, you don’t have to hold down OPTION.
Also, check out http://www.realmacsoftware.com/ for blog software for Mac that integrates very well with iPhoto and other Apple programs. I use it for my blog/website.
cshawnb