I seem to recall that iPhoto is supposed to be able to handle up to 250,000 photo files (including videos). I have about 16,000 photos in my largest iPhoto library (including 1500 homemade videos), and have not had any real problems so far. I wonder if the people having iPhoto issues are dealing with much larger libraries? Jim
On Dec 19, 2012, at 11:32 PM, John Robinson wrote: > My daughter has had the same problem with her thousands of photo's as well. > Finally took a call to Apple support and a 90 min. conversation with Apple > taking control of her machine before they could get it worked out. > > I have been trying to get her to change to Aperture, offers so much more and > is robust enough to handle any number of photo's she wants to throw at it > while it seems that folks with large numbers in iPhoto seem to have problems. > > John > > > On Dec 19, 2012, at 11:44 AM, William Micou wrote: > >> Anne, >> I have had that same problem, eventually found a solution, but about a year >> later, it started 'losing' photos again. >> I'm trying to re-discover what I did before, but haven't devoted enough time >> to find it. There are some discussions in the Apple forums. >> If I remember correctly, my problem was a directory that needed to be sent >> to the trash, and then iPhoto rebuilt the directory. >> I'll try to find out more by this week-end and share it with you. >> Bill >> >> On Dec 18, 2012, at 05:28 PM, Anne Cartwright <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I've just spent a few hours transferring 14,795 photos from my PhotoSafe >>> (an external HD that will accept SD cards). I can see the photos in iPhoto >>> but I can't do anything with them. Maybe only the thumbnails transferred? I >>> get the following message "The volume for "xxx.JPG cannot be found." While >>> it gives me three options (Cancel, Find Photo..., OK) it will do none. In >>> fact I have to Force Quit iPhoto to do anything. >>> >>> I just tried with an SD card to transfer the photos using a card reader and >>> get the same results; however I was able to transfer them to my HD but in a >>> separate folder. Not in iPhoto. Each of these photos is about 1.5 MB in >>> size and will open in Photoshop but I cannot get them into iPhoto. >>> >>> I've had this problem before and can't remember how I got around it. I >>> think iPhoto eventually decided to work. >>> >>> Any suggestions? How can I tell if the original photos were transferred off >>> the PhotoSafe or if all I have is thumbnails. >>> >>> I'm running iPhoto 7.1.5 on an iMac running Mac OS X 10.6.8. >>> >>> Any help greatly appreciated. >>> >>> Anne Cartwright >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> MacGroup mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MacGroup mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
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