IPhoto '11 taking a minute or more to open
I upgraded from iPhoto '09 to '11 in January, and since then have had no problems with speed or freezing. Everything ran smoothly and never got hung up. But one day, i go to show a photo to my friend, and iPhoto never opens. I have to resort to Logging Off, but the computer doesn't log off because it thinks iPhoto is still running. I hold down the power button and store the computer away. After a few days, i go on again, and decide to wait. It took 10 minutes for iPhoto to open, but ran smoothly after that. Now its still taking a minute or more to open. This only happens after it boots up, and after starting once, it opens quickly after that. I have about 7,000 photos all together in my library, and am willing to delete 400 or so if necessary. Is there anything i can do?
I had this problem but it was due to Spotlight trying to index my BootCamp volume. If you have a BootCamp partition, go into the spotlight security settings and make it private.
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