Here's a fix for slow iPhoto 5.0.4 (burst the beachball!)

Hi all,
I've been scanning my back catalogue of photos from about the end of last year. I've never really used iPhoto before, so have no previous with earlier versions. Without a digital camera, I'm forced to use an HP scanner. Owing to the fact that the Cube only has USB 1, this is already not the fastest job in the world, but patience is on my side.
Despite the fact that I've chosen to put the iPhoto library on my ext HDD, I'm faced with one of the infuriating aspects of the HP scanning application, which is its need to put all scanned input into a folder within /home/documents on my Cube HDD. I only discovered this when I poked around after a system warning that my startup drive was nearly full.
I think this critical point caused a few permissions conflicts, because ever since, iPhoto has been screwing (that's less harsh here in the UK) my Mac. I got all the symptoms others have been complaining about with regard to slow system performance after having used iPhoto at all. This was true when switching between applications, as well as using applications after having used iPhoto, not to mention during the use of iPhoto itself. The only way to correct this degradation was with a restart, which itself would take forever, because of the slow system performance.
I had a fairly small library.iPhoto file, so was not assured that the bloat was the same as others had with certain cameras. In looking through the posts, however, I found one which suggested trashing iPhoto 5.0.4 and reinstalling version 5.0. The respondent stated that he/she was at the point of trying something 'as drastic as that'.
So I got to thinking: if the application iPhoto has caused system-wide damage, then that's the damage to treat. I did an archive and reinstall of OSX and the difference is phenomenal. So many have reported massive amounts of RAM in use, as well as GIGABYTES of swap memory. Have we forgotten the background of the Mac as a graphic artist's tool of choice?
I'm here to tell you that a properly seated operating system will run iPhoto quite happily with a gig of RAM, and whilst a 450Mhz processor won't put the fear of god into many in this day and age, it's perfectly adequate for image manipulation in iPhoto.
If you'd asked me this a week ago, I would have concurred that I obviously needed to upgrade to a G5 twin 1.8 or some such animal, but having noticed colleagues in these forums with systems that should eat this kind of workload, I'm at the conclusion (like I'm an expert) that a system reinstall should be at the beginning of the troubleshooting with such huge differences between expected and actual performance.
Go on, give it a try. What's to lose, apart from half an hour installing OSX?
Best of luck,
Matt
G4 Cube 1GB RAM/G3 iBook 640MB RAM; AirPort Express/G3 iMac Rev B 640MB RAM/iPod   Mac OS X (10.4.4)   iMac OSX 10.2.8

Never should have been a question - sorry.

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