iPhoto Maintenance
07/06/07 09:34
Hello,
Welcome to this tutorial about iPhoto, it's incredible how much traffic comes through Google from folks searching for IPhoto Maintenance tips, thats why I'm posting a super short lesson in how to help your IPhoto run faster and smoother.
Remember that before any maintenance, software updates, or changes, you should have a full backup of your hard drive and operating system, one fantastic tool for this is Super Duper, but you can also use Apple's Backup software (available exclusively to .mac users) or Retrospect, Regular Weekly Backups are a great idea and will be covered in their own tip and tutorial (coming soon).
The latest iPhoto (shipped as part of iLife 06) provides support for not 25,000 photos but 250,000 photos, this is a staggering number and clients rarely remember that iPhoto can comfortably handle so many photos, the secret to handling such a large amount of files is running weekly maintenance on your iPhoto library.
To do this, simply hold down Command (the key) and option as you click on the iPhoto application icon, this will present you with four options, these include rebuild thumbnails, rebuild library, and two further tasks, running these four tasks in sequence on a weekly basis will provide a smooth running, happy experience for you and your photo collection.
We're keeping this Tip super short because it's so straight forward, try it out now, REMEMBER to Backup your files and hard drive before doing this as big operations can sometimes have funny effects on your hard drive.
Welcome to this tutorial about iPhoto, it's incredible how much traffic comes through Google from folks searching for IPhoto Maintenance tips, thats why I'm posting a super short lesson in how to help your IPhoto run faster and smoother.
Remember that before any maintenance, software updates, or changes, you should have a full backup of your hard drive and operating system, one fantastic tool for this is Super Duper, but you can also use Apple's Backup software (available exclusively to .mac users) or Retrospect, Regular Weekly Backups are a great idea and will be covered in their own tip and tutorial (coming soon).
The latest iPhoto (shipped as part of iLife 06) provides support for not 25,000 photos but 250,000 photos, this is a staggering number and clients rarely remember that iPhoto can comfortably handle so many photos, the secret to handling such a large amount of files is running weekly maintenance on your iPhoto library.
To do this, simply hold down Command (the key) and option as you click on the iPhoto application icon, this will present you with four options, these include rebuild thumbnails, rebuild library, and two further tasks, running these four tasks in sequence on a weekly basis will provide a smooth running, happy experience for you and your photo collection.
We're keeping this Tip super short because it's so straight forward, try it out now, REMEMBER to Backup your files and hard drive before doing this as big operations can sometimes have funny effects on your hard drive.