Hi Susan, The imac has 1 T , of which 263 mb is currently available I it will be more when my large library finally finishes deleting!i) Processor 2.8 Ghz Corei5 Memory 8GB I'll try making a trial library and see what happens.
Rosemary Spark PO Box 781 South Fremantle WA 6162 Australia Phone: + 61 8 6397 6822 Mobile: 0414268043 On Thu, 4 Jul 2019 at 15:31, Susan Hastings <susanhasti...@mac.com> wrote: > Hi Rosemary, sounds like your five year libraries might still be too large > for Photos to easily handle. It could possibly be related to the specs of > the iMac as well. It would be useful to know the size of your photo > libraries and how much RAM and hard drive space you have. > > I upload my photos to the Mac using adobe Bridge, which allows me to set > up albums and import photos into folders in date order. Then, I import to > Photos and Lightroom, starting a new library each year. > > I’ve found both Apple Photos and Lightroom don’t like large photo > libraries. Even with the Photos libraries set to optimise storage on my Mac > meaning that most of the files are in the Cloud. With Lightroom, I add > photos without moving them into the catalogue. > > Have you tried setting up a new Photos library and just putting a few > photos in it to see how it runs? This would clarify whether the problem is > the size of the libraries. > > Cheers, Susan > > > Sent from my iPad > > On 4 Jul 2019, at 1:15 pm, Rosemary Spark <arkaysp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Both my husband and I have macbooks which had run out of space because of > large Photos libraries. We inherited an iMac so decided to move both > libraries on to it. I've spent the last month with PowerPhotos creating > separate libraries in 5 year blocks, trying to maintain albums etc. However > now I've done this the Photos libraries still are extremely slow to do > anything at all. Moving, changing titles, editing etc. Even opening the > info pane can take 5 minutes. > > Has anyone found a better program ( quicker!!) to organise and edit photos. > > > iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2015) running Mojave 10.14.5 > > Rosemary Spark > PO Box 781 > South Fremantle WA 6162 Australia > Phone: + 61 8 6397 6822 > Mobile: 0414268043 > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - < > http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - < > http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
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