Building Thumbnails is taking soooo long

When I first went to open iMovie '08, I'd just finished filming a pair of high school basketball games, and had loaded them into iPhoto. It said it needed to build the thumbnails, and gave me a choice of doing it "now" or "later". I chose to do it now, and proceeded to wait for the next 90 minutes as it ostensibly built the thumbnails. I fiddled around for a bit, then closed iMovie, intending to get back to it later. The next time I opened iMovie, it had to build the thumbnails again! Now these two games fit onto one 4GB SD card. We're not talking about several hundred gigs of video here. Am I honestly going to have to wait for upwards of 90 minutes EVERY TIME I go to use iMovie? Is there a way to save the thumbnails? Help!

Dan, I feel your pain. Plug in an external hard drive and the program launches into generating thumbnails. Import a second clip from a camera and it generates thumbnails from that clip AND clips already imported! This insane waste of time has ruined this program! I am back to a much older copy of imovie. That is the only way I have figured out how to get a simple movie made quickly! Wasn't that the point, Apple?

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So I use an ethernet cable directly between the two computers. That works. Except that it is taking INSANELY long. I am only transferring about 30 gigs and it has been going for 6 hours and says it will need 8 more! What can possibly take so long??? When I transfer files over my network using the same cables, 30 gigs takes maximum 30 minutes I think....
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Bo

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Second, I have a 2011 MacBook Air and it does have a single thunderbolt port. Pre-2011 may have been the mini display port.
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At some point along the way though migration assistant decided wifi would be better and the estimate jumped to over 20 hours. I unplugged my router (only solution for me once both machines had migration assistant running) and it seamlessly defaulted back to thunderbolt where the estimate cut back down to 30ish minutes.
The thunderbolt cable being worth the extra money or not is I suppose a matter of opinion but for me it's got plenty of other uses to justify the price and certainly made this transfer a lot faster. I just wish migration assistant wouldn't default to wifi without any kind of indicator.
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|   1 | UPDATE                 | LOCAL_PERSONS             |       |       |            |          |
|* 2 |   FILTER                |                           |       |       |            |          |
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untested
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HT4736 Taking too long (2 minutes) to locate and download photos into Photo '11 9.5 (902.7 build running on an older Intel based MacBook Pro with iPhoto libraries on a USB2 External HD). I checked and repaired HD permissions. Any ideas?

Regarding iPhoto '11 9.5 (902.7 build running on an older Intel based MacBook Pro with iPhoto libraries on a USB2 External HD). I am dealing with iPhoto taking too long to download photos. Specifically, I rechecked and repaired HD permissions. I am running the most current software my five year old Intel MacBook Pro can run. What happens is that when I connect an external SD card, or my iPhone, the new version of iPhoto takes up to two full minutes to fully acknowledge the device. Then locate new photos and be ready to download them to my external HD. I am kind of concerned about this. This has never happened before.
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Hello Old Toad.... Those sound like great ideas.
I thought I checked and repaired disk permissions on my main boot HD. That boot disk is Mac OS Extended (Journaled) Capacity 749.3 GB. Available 562.53 GB. BUT.... now that I think of it.... the Seagate external HD with USB2 interface is: Mac OS Extended (Journaled), Capacity 639.79 GB, Available 36.2 GB with my latest iPhoto Library 517.37 GB that was already scanned & updated to be read by the latest iPhoto version.
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Message was edited by: Mike Boreham

Just discovered the "show Activity" window, which shows that it is building thumbnails (not previews) and that it has 6000 more to do.
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