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Expand and collapse all film rolls in iPhoto Apps
I found a way to speed up iPhoto a bit ... I currently have 653 pictures in my photo library. I have the "Film Rolls" checkbox selected in order to keep track of when my pictures were taken. I have a 700 mhz flat screen iMac and normally, iPhoto would take about 30 seconds to open. So I went through and collapsed each film roll one by one. Now it opens up in a snap. However, I can no longer see any of my photos.

But I found that if I hold Option and expand a single roll, every roll in the library opens up with about half a second of load time. This also works to collapse all rolls.

[Editor's note: I've got about 1,300 images stored in one library on a G4/733, and opening iPhoto with all rolls collapsed cut about 15 seconds from the launch time ... nice trick!]
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nope, not here
Authored by: davidnorton on Oct 04, '02 11:26:57AM

2018 photos.
700MHz G4 iMac, 640MB RAM
iPhoto 1.1.1
Load time before collapsing: 12 seconds
Load time after collapsing: 12 seconds



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Wow...
Authored by: robg on Oct 04, '02 11:48:47AM

I've got a faster machine with fewer photos, and my launch time runs about 15 seconds with the rolls collapsed, 30 seconds with them open.

Strange...

-rob.



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Not much here either
Authored by: springstdigital on Oct 06, '02 01:12:55AM

4207 Photos
867 G4 Quicksilver
1.5 GB RAM

15 secs to open normal view
12 secs to open collapsed film rolls



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Expand & Collapse all film rolls in iPhoto
Authored by: calnelson on Oct 04, '02 10:55:59PM

Great hint.
BTW, if you hold down the option key you will collapse all rolls at once



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collapse? expand?
Authored by: DavidMaxWaterman on Oct 06, '02 05:37:47AM

I have 5274 photos in iPhoto, and it takes about a minute to launch[1], so I would dearly love to have it speeded up and this hint sounds promising, yet I cannot make head nor tail of it.

It is extremely irritating that the library is at the top of the list and it has to display all the photos at start up. I almost never want to see all of them, and immediately select one of the albums.

So, would someone like to explain to me what this collapse/expand things is referring to? Step-by-step would be useful :)

Thanks.

Max.

[1] I am using a PowerBook Ti 800/DVI. It says that the photos take 73470 Bytes, which I doubt since it's a 60GB disk and it says I have 15GB free on the desktop...



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collapse? expand?
Authored by: below on Oct 06, '02 06:01:33PM

1) Select the photo library (not "Last Import", or an album)
2) In the lower right corner you will find three checkboxes, one of them labeled "Film rolls" (or something the like, I have a non-English system). Check this box
3) Now you should see "Film Rolls" in your library, which you can collapse or expand!

(Took me a while to find it, too)

Alex



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Wow! How much better is it now!
Authored by: hembeck on Oct 06, '02 11:19:24PM

iPhoto would be painfully slow to launch. I posted about there everywhere I could, trying to find a way to have iPhoto not showing me EVERYTHING that is in my library. This trick is exactly what I needed. iPhoto now loads in less than half the time it did before.

Thank you, thank you!!!



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