Going from iPhoto 4 to iPhoto 6 - caveats?...anyone?

I have iPhoto 4.0.3 and am seriously considering iLife06. Aside from the usual smartness of backing up all 1,500+ photos first, will it really be as simple as installing iLife06 or should I just as soon leave it all well enough alone ans stick with iPhoto4?

Hi,
I just did exactly that upgrade, 4->6, on Saturday. I've had no problems whatsoever. I have a huge iPhoto library, something like 17,000 photos and ~39 GB of data, so I was naturally worried, but I'm happy to say that so far, not a single problem, and vastly improved performance.
All I did beforehand was backup my entire library to an external hard drive (I keep rolling backups regularly as well, but I made a complete, new backup just to be extra cautious.) I also then dismounted and disconnected that external drive, just to further safeguard my data. I then did a general clean up & permissions repair of my system and photo drives. I use the tool called "Cocktail" to do the cache cleaning, permissions repair, and such, but the permissions repair could also be done 'manually' using disk utility. I further used disk utility to just do a 'verify disk', which showed no problems with my photo library drive.
I think this is pretty much ordinary prep work for any significant upgrade, and if you're confused about any of it, you can certainly find lots of other posts about exactly how to do any of these steps. I think the two significant ones, really, are "Verify Disc" (and repair, if indicated), and "Repair Permissions". Consensus seems to be those two are critical.
Anyway, after all that was done, I put the iLife DVD in and just ran the normal upgrade. Once it was done, I launched iPhoto and let it go. It churned for quite a while -- it reorganizes the photo storage into a different folder hierarchy, and creates new thumbnails, so that took a while. Once it was all over with, iPhoto is working great, with no problems detected so far at all.
As part of the process, it also found a few hundred "orphaned" photos, and it asked me what to do with them, so I had it put them in a new album, just so I could see what they were. It looks like they were mostly photos I had deleted; one theory I have is that they were somehow orphaned when iPhoto 4 crashed on me -- which it did multiple times over the years.
I'm not sure what the previous poster was referring to by "Messy." It does re-organize the photos from the old date-sorted folder structure to a new Original/Modified and segregated by Film Roll structure. I don't ever muck around within the iPhoto storage hierarchy, so this has all been totally transparent to me, although I did have a peek just to see how it is implemented. I think this is a part of a new option to have iPhoto leave your photos where they are rather than copying them into your library location (which in principle should allow photo libraries to span multple discs, but I haven't verified that part.) So while others are considering the re-org to be a disaster, I look at it as a good thing. All the film rolls and photo albums I had in iPhoto 4 transferred flawlessly to iPhoto 6, and that's all I really care about.
So far, I'm thrilled with the upgrade. iPhoto 4 had gotten frustratingly slow to use - I was so tired of watching the rainbow spinner! 6 is super quick and smooth, and the editing tools are greatly enhanced. I played with the book, calendar, and iWeb export, but haven't actually followed through with any purchases yet. I did export a few photos and upload them, with no problems.
Good luck!
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