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• #Iphoto library how to#

With iPhoto closed, find and open /Applications/iPhoto by double-clicking it in Finder with the Option and Command keys pressed. This is common sense, but it does bear mentioning. Before taking the step of rebuilding the iPhoto library, please be sure to have an up-to-date backup, just in case something does go sideways. The biggest speed gains, however, will come from rebuilding the database. Pressing “0” will make them as small as they can be. For instance, pressing “1” will set the thumbnail size to the maximum (slider all the way to the right). You can adjust the size with the slider at the bottom right-hand corner of the interface, or use simple keyboard shortcuts to adjust thumbnail sizes. If the pictures are large, and there are a number of pictures, iPhoto may become jerky as you scroll through it. A modest gain at launch, but it demonstrates that the counts do impact the overall speed of the application as you use it.Īnother quick usability tip is for scrolling through thumbnails. With the counts on, starting iPhoto took 12 seconds, with the counts off, it took seven seconds. On smaller libraries this won’t make much of a difference, but on large libraries it most definitely will. In the iPhoto preferences, turn off the Show Item Counts option in the General section. If your iPhoto library is displaying photo counts in folders, you could be adversely impacting its speed. For some, this might be large for others, this is quite small. My iPhoto library is over 20GB in size, with almost 7000 pictures. There are a few easy steps you can take to make sure that iPhoto is as fast as it can be. If you’ve been using iPhoto for a while and have a lot of pictures, you may find that it can take quite some time to launch. Every new Mac comes with iLife installed and upgrades are a reasonable price. IPhoto is the most widely used photo-organization application on the Mac.

Depending on the size of your photo library, speeds can be improved moderately or significantly with a just a few tweaks.

#Iphoto library how to#

Vincent Danen explains how to clean up your iPhoto library to make it faster.