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Fix very slow iPhoto load and/or quit time
Authored by: raider on Aug 19, '05 03:26:28PM

This doesn't seem like much of a hint. It is basically saying "delete extra stuff and things will go faster".

I specifically will NOT delete EXIF data, as I use it regularly. And there could be many reasons that someone who doesn't use it right now, might want to *in the future*.

So I see the problem as two fold - first, some cameras are putting large chunks of data in the EXIF info, possibly unnecessarily - and second, iPhoto may be doing something strange that is causing duplication of that data...

Do we know exactly what is different between the iPhoto 4 and iPhoto 5 libraries that causes the size difference, and why it slows down iPhoto?



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Fix very slow iPhoto load and/or quit time
Authored by: hamarkus on Aug 20, '05 06:51:11PM

What I remember from the Apple discussion forums where Eric Lindsay first posted this info (and the link to the Perl script that only removes the MakerNote and nothing else from the EXIF information) is that iPhoto 4 stored the EXIF information for all photos not in a single file (as it is done with iPhoto 5 and the Library.iPhoto file) but in a separate file for each roll (or even each photo, I am not sure anymore).



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Fix very slow iPhoto load and/or quit time
Authored by: starwxrwx on Aug 22, '05 04:42:55AM

How do you "use" the EXIF data? Is it accesbile in iPhoto?



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Fix very slow iPhoto load and/or quit time
Authored by: raider on Aug 23, '05 06:00:24PM

Some of it is available in iPhoto. Mostly exposure information, and whatnot. We use it in Photoshop for tweaking photos...

Do a "get info" on the photo in iPhoto...



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