Annie, WOW, lots of questions and I can't help you with a one as I haven't use iPhoto for years, only Aperture. In Aperture the Faces don't seem to be taking up processor UNTIL you go to the Faces page, then I see the wheel spinning to bring to me the photo's it thinks MIGHT be the person in focus but otherwise I don't notice any activity by the processor other than the file I am working on.
Same with Places, nothing appears to be happening until I go to the places folder. Can't say for sure but the computer isn't slowed by either of these so if it is working at all is must be totally in the background when nothing is being worked on. In FinalCut the rendering is going on once you load a clip but as soon as you begin working it stops that process until you end keyboard activity, maybe it's the same in Aperture. In Aperture I have the program on the main drive, all the photo's are on another internal drive, the movies on yet another internal drive and all documents on a final internal drive. I have this backed up to a couple firewire drives and the only thing that seems to slow down things is if I begin to do something that would require backup then the program waits until the external drive spins up otherwise the using of various drives is something I don't even notice. If you hold down the option key when you start iPhoto you should be able to tell it where the library you want is located and I would think it would be seamless to access the photos off that library even if it was on an external drive, maybe if you are using a slower USB connected drive? Hopefully you can use Firewire 800? With all the trouble you seem to be having with you large amount of work I think it's time to move to Aperture. Once you learn the program you will never want to go back to iPhoto unless it would be to order some of the speciality items such as cards.....but you can have iPhoto access your Aperture library so you can still use iPhoto. John On Feb 16, 2013, at 9:39 PM, Anne Cartwright wrote: > 1) Is there anyway to get Faces to turn off? I checked Places to disable > places lookup but can see no way to get iPhoto to stop scanning for faces? I > assume this must be slowing down the computer and since I'm working on a > relatively slow computer and don't want to use Faces.... > > Also is there some way you can disable Places lookup for all events, ditto on > collapsing the Faces area under Info. I seem to have to do it for each Event. > Maybe I should just not bother. But the Faces wheel continues to go around. > Even in Libraries in which there are no faces. Only plants. > > iPhoto '11 ver 9.3 on a 5 year old MacBook Pro running Mac OS X 10.8.2. > > Actually I am having so much trouble with iPhoto, trying to move photos from > an external HD to the laptop. I must be doing it all wrong. > > Since the laptop won't hold all the photos I have I'm trying to move just a > few of the iPhoto Libraries I have. Just the more recent ones. > > So I drag an iPhoto Library from the Pictures folder on the external HD to > iPhoto on the laptop. And I end up with two or three copies of many events. > Why? > > Can I remove the folder Pictures from my account and drag the Pictures folder > from my external HD.... Nope it's too large. Rats. > > How about I remove the Pictures folder from my account (Home>Pictures),; drag > it to the trash and empty trash. Then make a new folder in Home > (Command-Shift-N) and drag a few iPhoto Libraries to it from the external HD. > Would that work? > > Any suggestions? > > Anne > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
