How Big Is Your Album...?

[iAndy]

I now have over 10,000 digital photos (70%-3MP / 30%-5MP) currently stored on my WinNT server. Currently I am simply storing images in chronological order in monthly subdirectories, with obvious limitations. I am now wondering whether to migrate my photos over to my iMac and use iPhoto2, or buy a W#ndows based package such as Adobe Photoshop Album or Picasa (Windows iPhoto clone).

Although I having seen many posts from folks referring to the size of their iTunes collections, I have not seen any equivalent mention of iPhoto album sizes.

So what I am interested to know is:
(a) how large is your iPhoto album?
(b) whether you have upgraded a large iPhoto collections to iPhoto2, and if so what are response times like to file management and search functions ?

Many thanks for any feedback

 

[Jaykay]

i have about 2,000 photos in my iphoto library which i recently moved to iphoto 2 and it seems quite sluggish for me especially while a lot of pictures are on screen at the same time and im running a 1.25GHz DP with 10.2.3.

Just my observation.

 

[TyleRomeo]

Re: How Big Is Your Album...?

Originally posted by iAndy
I now have over 10,000 digital photos (70%-3MP / 30%-5MP) currently stored on my WinNT server. Currently I am simply storing images in chronological order in monthly subdirectories, with obvious limitations. I am now wondering whether to migrate my photos over to my iMac and use iPhoto2, or buy a W#ndows based package such as Adobe Photoshop Album or Picasa (Windows iPhoto clone).

Although I having seen many posts from folks referring to the size of their iTunes collections, I have not seen any equivalent mention of iPhoto album sizes.

So what I am interested to know is:
(a) how large is your iPhoto album?
(b) whether you have upgraded a large iPhoto collections to iPhoto2, and if so what are response times like to file management and search functions ?

Many thanks for any feedback

well i also have a DP 1.25 but with only 200 pics so far. (4MP) but i only have 512 DDR ram, im going to upgrade to 1024 when things get sluggish.

Tyler

 

[Mr. Anderson]

I've got just over 2k on my TiPB, but I'm not happy with iPhoto and its single library of photos. The software is too sluggish. I know of some alternatives that I've yet to purchase, but its a just a matter of time before I do since I have 1000s more that need to be imported from pre iPhoto days.

D

 

[Gus]

Re: How Big is Your Album?

That's kind of a personal question....

;p

Regards,
Gus

 

[hui__lim]

Yeah in iPhoto, is it possible to create one folder and then subdirectories?