Iphoto takes at least 10 minutes to open

This is really dumb. I have 5000 photos and it takes more than 10 minutes to open Iphoto. I wanted to show some pictures this weekend and I was embarrassed to tell my sister that it would take like 15 minutes to open them. I would only expect this nonsense on a windows machine. Doesn't someone have a answer?

Do you have Windows installed via Bootcamp? Try unmounting that partition. The problem is caused by Spotlight trying to index it.
Regards
TD

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Problem description: (MacBook Pro 15" late 2008, OSX Yosemite 10.10.2 installed, no pending updates) computer is running very slow - takes 2-3 minutes to open apps such as Pages, even when no other apps are open. Randomly freezes and becomes unrespo

Problem description:
(MacBook Pro 15” late 2008, OSX Yosemite 10.10.2 installed, no pending updates) computer is running very slow - takes 2-3 minutes to open apps such as Pages, even when no other apps are open. Randomly freezes and becomes unresponsive, requiring forced power down. Randomly logs off. Removed Kodak AIO software via Clean My Mac2, but BonjourAgent still there and requesting access. Cleaned weekly with Clean My Mac2 and running Sophos AntiVirus. 2GB memory installed. Currently 169.99 GB available of 249.2 GB capacity.
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Slow performance after installing Yosemite on an older Mac is often caused by inadequate memory. Although you can install the upgrade on a Mac with 2 GB of memory, experience has shown that at least 4 GB is needed for full performance.
Select About This Mac from the Apple menu. If you have less than 4 GB of memory, and your model has upgradable memory, install as much as it can take, or at least that much. Any reputable RAM vendor will have a web form in which you can select the Mac model and be directed to compatible parts.
Memory in the MacBook Air is not upgradable. If that's what you have, you should restore the previous system from a backup, or replace the machine. Ask if you need guidance.
The Etrecheck report clearly shows that SylvieRose has a Macbook Pro, not a Macbook Air and that there are only 2 GB RAM installed. The Etrecheck report can be very informative if one takes the time to examine it.
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Hi all, I'm on my phone typing as my Internet is down...all kinds of problems today so bear with me.
Suddenly today my iPhoto started acting weird. Well, it as well as the other iLife programs. At first I was noticing that, when quitting, the apps would hang, including iPhoto. I'd either have to force quit or give it a good 3 minutes.
I started by repairing pemissions. That didn't help at all.
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I then rebuil the library. When I launched it, it again sat there for a while. However, I did finally pull up my photos, everything intact. So I quit it and launched again...and that brings me to where I'm at. It launches, but it takes approximately 4-5 minutes for it to finally do so. The spinnig wheel is up that whole time. Thus has never happened. All of my iLife apps have always been super snappy, opening in mere seconds. That includes iPhoto...it was one of the fastest, but now takes about 5 minutes to launch.
The only change tithe machine is that I installed adobe lightroom 3 the other day, but that also seemed fine...meaning the problem just cropped up today.
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Okay, here's what I found out. Followed the above instructions...no joy. I think this maybe needs to be posted in a general OS forum, as I'm thinking this is more about that vs just being about iPhoto/iTunes. Here's what I tried and learned.
A new account allowed iPhoto to open up immediately. However, iTunes seemed a touch slow...not sure if that is just due to it being a new account. So, I deleted that account and moved on to the preferences instructions above.
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Actually, Chris, I found that page yesterday on my own doing a search, before I wrote my post. After your instructions didn't work, I found that page and tried deleting the iAdcore.dll and that did not work. When I tried to open it said it didn't have the iAdcore and could not be opened. There was no QTMovieWin there to delete. I again uninstalled everything in the order listed on this new page, because there were 7 things to uninstall (not 5 as your last page suggested). I found that I had iCloud so that was deleted in the proper order. Did not have MobileMe on the computer. Also deleted Apple Application support, which wasn't on your list either. I restarted the computer. I looked for any files on drive C program files as indicated, and did not find any of those files. I went to the iTunes page and downloaded the latest version yet again (maybe the 5th time?). And I got the same notice:
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Hi,
Refer to the following blogs which explains the steps to improve the performance.
Offline Part u2013 I /people/sankar.narayana/blog/2008/12/23/dynamic-generation-of-offline-adobe-interactive-forms-for-sap-46c-and-ep-70-without-user-intervention-part-150-i
Offline Part u2013 II /people/sankar.narayana/blog/2008/12/30/dynamic-generation-of-offline-adobe-interactive-forms-for-sap-46c-and-ep-70-without-user-interventionpart-ii
Adobe Performance : /people/ramesh.kotagiri/blog/2008/12/30/sap146s-magic-solution-to-obtain-amazing-performance-of-dynamic-adobe-interactive-forms-using-zci-forms-zero-client-installation
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I did indeed use compressor to create Animation video clips out of the PNG image sequences for the motion graphics. I deleted all the PNG files from the Library and imported the video clips, and it now works and opens very quickly.
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adrian.down wrote:
I have a worksheet with about 6 sheets of 1000 rows each. The table cells contain some references between sheets. On my MacBook Pro, it takes 5 to 10 minutes just to open the sheet. Switching between sheets in the document takes several minutes as well. When I try to edit the contents of certain columns in the sheet (the header columns), Numbers uses up 100% of the CPU for a while (sometimes hours) and then crashes.
I never got that.
I have to be patient but I never got crash in such conditions.
When I must open such document, I start by launching "Activity Monitor" so I can make the difference between Numbers heavily busy and a possible crash which I never got.
I understand that this is a very specialized problem, and probably has to do with the worksheet itself. Is there anything I can do via this forum to help diagnose this problem and speed up Numbers behavior? I can post the document if that would help at all, or any other relevant facts about the worksheet. Just let me know what would be most helpful.
I discovered recently that on PowerPC machines, Numbers make an heavy use of virtual memory (in fact, HD space) which is an efficient slowdowner.
On Intel machines, the virtual memory use is divided by about five.
You may send the file to my mailbox.
From time to time, I got files with formulas which may be optimised to get a better performance but of course, as an end user like you, I can't change what I often described as a serious design flaw.
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