Re: iPhoto 2 to iPhoto 5
- From: Dan Stephenson <stephedanospam@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 20:03:32 GMT
In article
<Jeanne.Clelland-D0337D.13201401112005@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Jeanne
Clelland <Jeanne.Clelland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm planning to get a new Powerbook in the near future. Currently I
> have a 4-year-old TiBook, and I never updated by iLife apps, so I'm
> still using iPhoto 2. When I migrate to the new system, will my iPhoto
> 2 libraries be compatible with iPhoto 5? If not, what will I need to do
> to make them work?
>
> Jeanne
Make absolutely sure you have backups of your iPhoto 2 library.
You might run into the problem I had, which is that with each new
iPhoto update your library needs to be massaged to conform with some
kind of new format it uses. The problem is if you have a very large
library - your computer will run out of memory and it it hang/fail
every time. So this is what I recommend if you have a large library.
Export from it sub-libraries according to whatever category you can
think of. Then use iPhoto Library Manager (google for it). ILM is a
tool that launches iPhoto for you, using one of the sub-libraries
(which you have already made) that you can select. This means iPhoto
has a much smaller library, and thus the iPhoto update doesn't run out
of memory. ILM works by copying over the sub-library to the "iPhoto
Library" name that iPhoto expects. Do you follow all this?
Now, a big downside is that if you have a lot of organization and
copies and originals, you lose all that when you make your
sub-libraries. To me, it is a major failure of foresight on Apple's
part to not build into the update process something that takes care of
this for you. At least, Apple should put ILM-like functionality into
iPhoto itself.
Nowadays, I make a new library for each vacation I take, and use ILM to
load up the one I want. And I keep all the libraries on an external
fireware hard drive (except the most recent vacation photo library that
is getting a lot of work done on them).
Good luck. At least you'll like the new iPhoto more, except for your
update struggles.
--
Dan Stephenson
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http://homepage.mac.com/stepheda
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