Photo edit sliders painfully slow

Hello,
I have been trying to edit a couple of photos in iPhoto. I need to crop and edit the exposure, black/white points, etc. If I open a photo in edit mode, I can usually get one edit function complete without any problems. After that iPhoto slows way down. If I click and move one of the sliders (sharpness, for example) it doesn't move for about two seconds. Then it jumps a bit farther than I wanted it to. If I am not careful, I end up watching the computer for several seconds as the slider moves a little, pauses, moves again, pauses, and moves yet again.
What is happening? I am using a 12" powerbook and have never had this problem before on this computer, even doing the same things.
Is this a corrupt cache, preference file, or something else that I can easily fix. As it is, iPhoto is unusable.

Bob:
Vic is referring to Activity Monitor located in your Applications/Utilities folder. It will show you what the various applications are doing at any one time.
How big is your HD and how much free space do you have on your PB? How much RAM do you have? Also are these photos all from a digital camera and if so which one? Is iPhoto slow in opening and closing also? If so and you have a Nikon or Pentax you might have been bitten by the MakerNote problem. Check Eric Lindsay's 7th(?) post in this thread: http://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?[email protected]@.68b4c129.
Get back to us on those HD and ram questions and we can go from there.
G4 DP-1G, 1.5G RAM, 22 Display, 2-80G HD, QT 7.0.3P Mac OS X (10.4.3) Canon S400, i850 & LIDE 50, Epson R200, 2G Nano

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   Jan 7 11:47:58 com.apple.xpc.launchd.domain.user.89: Failed to bootstrap path: path = /Library/LaunchAgents/com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist, error = 2: No such file or directory
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Listeners
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User login items
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Restricted files: 339
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Elapsed time (s): 844
Wow, that's a lot of data for you to sift through, but I suppose you know what you are looking to find. I bet you earned every one of those points. Thanks, Linc. All the folks in the world waiting for me to share their photos with them thank you as well : ) Cathleen

Painfully slow access to admin console (how can I fix it?)

Hi,
I'm using using Sun Java System Web Server Version 7.0U4 B12/02/2008 02:17 running on CentOS (Redhat EL) release 4.4.
The problem is that using the Admin Console (on port 8989) is painfully slow. It takes minutes for each page to load, but they do usually load.
Any ideas on how to fix that?
There are some other things going on that might be related and helpful to know:
I get certificate errors when I access the Admin Console (e..g, IE complains about a mismatched address). I've tried following the directions to install the certificate in IE7 and FF3, but neither has stopped bothering me about the certificate error.
I have the server behind a firewall which allows all outgoing traffic and select incoming ports to the server. The firewall also maps a public IP address to the server's local IP address (e..g, 10.10.10.8).
If I access the Admin Console locally via the LAN address (https://10.10.10.8:8989) it is no longer slow, but I get booted back to the login screen very frequently (e.g, every minute or two of casual browsing through the console), and I still get the certificate error
We haven't given the server a name, but access it by IP address, and the virtual server configuration in the Admin Console is name "localhost.localdomain"
Any help and suggestions would be greatly appreciated!! I've tried searching for solutions several times, but haven't succeeded.
Thanks,
Tim

Thanks for the thoughts
sriram.natarajan wrote:
The problem is that using the Admin Console (on port 8989) is painfully slow. It takes minutes for each page to load, but they do usually load.
Any ideas on how to fix that?
sounds more like some network issues. are you running your browser on your centos 4.4 as well ? also, did you try to connect using your IP - some thing like https://<ip>:8989 ?
No, we're not running the browser on centos 4.4. We're runing browsers on laptops, connecting both offsite via public IP address and in the office via both the public IP address and the LAN ip address.
Yes, we're using the ip address as you demonstrated. This machine does not have a domain name attached, so we only connect via ip addresses (mapped public or LAN)
>>
I get certificate errors when I access the Admin Console (e..g, IE complains about a mismatched address). I've tried following the directions to install the certificate in IE7 and FF3, but neither has stopped bothering me about the certificate error.it is not a certificate error. web server 7 admin server uses a self signed certificate . this is necessary step. however, IE reports a warning when it sees a self signed certificate. it wants you to know that it does not understand who sent this certificate. you need to create an exception - saying that you know what you are doing then there won't be any certificate error ..Okay, I'll look for how to do that, but so far I've only found instructions for how to install the certificate in the browsers, and unfortunately, that hasn't made a difference.
>>
I have the server behind a firewall which allows all outgoing traffic and select incoming ports to the server. The firewall also maps a public IP address to the server's local IP address (e..g, 10.10.10.8).
sounds like some network misconfiguration - outside the scope of this forum.I cannot rule that out, but other servers/websites seem to work fine with this same setup. Although, only this server is using https
>
If I access the Admin Console locally via the LAN address (https://10.10.10.8:8989) it is no longer slow, but I get booted back to the login screen very frequently (e.g, every minute or two of casual browsing through the console), and I still get the certificate error
if you want to increase this time out, you could do so by manually editing <install-root>/lib/webapps/admingui/WEB-INF/web.xml and change the value for session-timeout to say 600 (for 10 minutes).. . pl . note that this is not a supported way and you could potentially leave others to use your session if you are careless. but, if you know what you are doing .Thanks I did that. It surprises me that the default timeout appears to be 1 minute.

Creating art in Flash 8 painfully slow

Using Flash 8 on my new Mac Pro with 9G of memory and a fast
hard drive...
Creating art to animate is painfully slow for some reason.
There is an annoying lag or pause - after every keystroke or
individual brushstroke I have to wait a second or two for the
program to catch up before beginning the next action. Choosing edit
- undo leads to a 2-3 second pause.
The art is pretty simple - vector graphics created right in
the program, using one or two small bitmap JPGs for reference.
I'm not even animating it yet. Help!
Have already tried reducing the number of 'undo's' to 20.
Grateful for any sugguestons

OK folks, thanks for the fix, but I just have to say, this is
crap. what the hell is adobe doing? did they not know it was
coming? wake up one day, open the paper, and say "oh god, they have
ANOTHER windows now. Oh well, leave it alone its probably a fad."
This is not just a flash issue, although that in itself is crap.
Try installing the acrobat reader? doesnt work. Unfortunately the
only fix i expect out of them is to make it automatically setup in
xpsp2 mode with disabled desktop composition, ie no fix. I really
dont understand how one of the worlds largest software makers,
aruguably the most important one to a VERY large segment of the
econimy, gets caught with theyre pants down on such a large and
visable event as a new windows release.
Yes, you may say stop yer cryin, at least it works at all,
(flash does, acrobat doesnt, havent checked the rest) but the point
here is that any functionality at all in any of the programs is
completely by chance as adobe has done nothing as far as patches
for its software before release like it should. And that is
completely unacceptable.
summary: get off your ***.

Aperture 2 quitting when doing photo edits

I am using Aperture 2 on my Late 2009 27" iMac. OS X 10.9.5 Maverick.
The application quits unexpectedly when making photo edits. (most noticeable if cropping the image). This problem seems to have only recently manifested. I hadn't been doing much editing until today with the new OS.
Is there a compatibility issue with Aperture 2 and Maverick 10.9.5?.
I'm at a loss as my Aperture library is big and I don't know how to move it to a new computer or newer version of Aperture easily.
Is it time to buy a new iMac / Photo edit software?
Thanks
JS

Both your Aperture version and iPhoto version are perfect for working with MacOS X 10.6.8, but nor for your current system. iPhoto 8.1.2 is also incompatible with Mavericks. You should be using iPhoto 9.5.1 for best performance. with iPhoto 8.1.2 you'll have similar problems.
Could I migrate all my Aperture library to iPhoto easily? It seems that iPhoto has slowed down a lot since I upgraded operating systems from snow leopard to Maverick, thus why I'm hesitant to use iPhoto for editing. I am using an old version of iPhoto however. (09 8.1.2)
Aperture and iPhoto are now compatible and can open each others libraries,but not the older versions you are using. To be able to use both iPhoto and Aperture on the same library you would need to use at least Aperture 3.3 and Photo 3.3., see: Aperture 3.3: Using a unified photo library with iPhoto and Aperture
For best performance upgrade to Aperture 3.5.1, if you want to continue a professional application, to CaptureOne, or Lightroom. Upgrading to aperture 3 would be the most seamless transit. If you want to migrate to a simpler application upgrade your iPhoto to 9.5.1, but you would have export your originals and edited versions separately from Aperture. Upgrading to Aperture 3 would save the lossless workflow.

Intel 4500MHD painfully slow/not really working...

I have an Intel 4500MHD card in my laptop and it's just painfully slow, my previous laptop had an X3100 that worked great and i thought this would be an upgrade, how very wrong of me to believe that. Glxgears shows some 100 FPS and glxinfo says i have direct rendering support. I'm using core, community and extra repositories with an xorg.conf generated by X -configure without any additional options to the device section besides the default ones.
Yesterday i tried to run open arena and the game just exits when i try to initiate a game from the main menu.
Anyone had luck in getting this card to work a little more efficiently while not recompiling half of their system?
Last edited by goll (2009-02-04 15:42:49)

Unfortunately no.
Put simply, there are a few major intel-related changes going on right now, and the short story is that the intel drivers are using newer tech than Mesa and such are. However, the required packages haven't been brought up to date yet (I think they haven't been marked stable upstream and such).
The first step however is kernel 2.6.28, which includes half of the "fix", to simplify. Now, this won't make your FPS go straight back up - you'll need to wait for newer versions of Mesa and such to be rolled out - but it's a start, especially if you don't already have 2.6.28.
From there, I'm sure you've seen this thread which outlines what to recompile. I'll probably wait though, since 100FPS is quite an upgrade for me - I didn't have hardware rendering until a month or so ago (I think) - and my system is slow enough as it is (it can't use DDR2 RAM) for me to really bother with fast graphics anyway.
-dav7

Photo editing software

Hi
I have a Mac which I purchased in July 2010 I’m sure it’s running snow leopard. Will I be better off upgrading to the latest OS or staying as I am? The reason I ask is, I am looking into getting some photo editing software either Aperture or Photoshop Lightroom (is Aperture better for Mac?) to move up from the next level of iPhoto. Now I have never had a problem with my Mac in the three and a half years since I have had it and don’t want to do anything that will slow it down or mess it up. Any suggestions would be most welcome. My Mac is: iMac, Intel Core i3, 3.06 GHz, 1 Processor, 1 Core, L2 Cache (per core) 256KB, L3 Cache 4MB, Memory 4GB, Mac OS X version 10.6.8

Aperture and Lightroom are made by Apple and Adobe, respectively. Both are higher end photo management apps for cataloging your photo library. As you note, both are quite a step up from iPhoto.
You can do some editing in both, but nothing like an actual image editor. Photoshop, as Klaus1 mentioned, is expensive. For around $70 online (like at Amazon.com), you can get Photoshop Elements. About 80% of what the full PS app can do for far less. PS Elements does remove CMYK color support.
Pixelmator does a lot for not a whole lot of bucks. GIMP is an open source editor that does much of what Photoshop does, and it's free. Like PS, GIMP has a large learning curve.

Usually very fast, Sometimes painfully slow. Why?

There probably is no simple answer to this, but I'll ask anyway.
I am test driving Aperture 2.0.1 and so far like it a lot. But every now and then, on particular photos, it seems to slow to a crawl. For example, I have one photo that I shot a couple of days ago that has a stone building and a tree (with lots of thin twigs and no leaves) in front of it. This photo is just plain painful to work on -- all adjustments are slow, the loupe takes a couple seconds to open and can't be moved smoothly (it seems to jump erratically, so it's even hard to move it slowly), and even if I zoom to 100% I can't move around in the photo (using the little red navigation box in the navigation overlay) without similar erratic behavior. Even Quick Preview mode is slow!
The odd thing is that with the majority of my photos everything is very quick. Using the loupe feels almost like moving a real, physical loupe over a real photo -- it's that fast. There are just a few images that seem to cause this painful slowness.
So now the question -- is there a reason for this, and a cure? The best explanation I can think of is that this photo, and a few others, has so many little details in it (the roughness of the stone, and the randomness of the many thin twigs on the tree) that it's straining Aperture's raw conversion to its limits. But if that were it, I'd think that Quick Preview would have worked OK. And while I hate to say it (because this is an honest question, not a thinly veiled jab at Aperture), Lightroom doesn't seem to have any problem with this photo.
Other particulars -- I'm using a Nikon D50, and the photo was shot in raw. I've tried quitting Aperture and restarting it, logging out and back on, and even restarting the computer.

I think I have tracked the problem down -- it's highlights and shadows. If I turn that adjustment off everything works fine. I went back and looked at some other images and sure enough, if I turn on highlights & shadows the performance bogs down considerably. It's more pronounced on the particular photo I wrote about yesterday -- until that photo it was just a curiosity and I never made the connection, but this one was so bad that I was forced to check it out further.

Arch just got painfully slow (for the third time)

arch has slowly been getting slower bit by bit, but I let it slide for a while. started up my laptop today and everything is painfully slow. Pacman takes a couple minutes just to retrieve new update lists, yaourt takes minutes before displaying anything, when I start X/Openbox it's about 5 or 10 minutes before I can even right click open a menu. Yesterday, I was opening up GIMP in a matter of seconds, but it just took about a minute or two to load. Can't imagine this'd be a hardware issue because the laptop is a few months old and hasn't had any problems - other OSes on the drive load fine and all. My / partition is ext3 and has a bit under 1GB of free space - I didn't realize how much space I needed to distribute everything when I formatted everything and I've been meaning to repartition the drive. Is there any chance that could be what's slowing down my computer so much?
Last edited by sa (2008-10-02 03:40:47)

[sa@psd ~]$ mount
/dev/sda7 on / type ext3 (rw)
none on /dev type ramfs (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
/dev/sda5 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
/dev/sda8 on /home type jfs (rw)
/dev/sda1 on /ntfs type fuseblk (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096)
[sa@psd ~]$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda7 8.0G 6.5G 1.1G 87% /
none 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda5 43M 17M 25M 40% /boot
/dev/sda8 55G 4.2G 51G 8% /home
/dev/sda1 100G 39G 62G 39% /ntfs
[sa@psd ~]$
How can I measure disk activity?
Something else must be happening because even the bash prompt at startup after logging in takes a little while to show up. I'm not sure what to do
Last edited by sa (2008-09-25 00:56:29)

Macbook Air internet connection painfully slow with ethernet.....

Hi all
I am currently staying in a serviced apartment and have a Macbook Air that I have had to connect to the in-house LAN through the USB port (someone on here was kind enough to suggest this - I'm a bit of beginner at all this!). The connection is painfully slow (it claims to be connected but pages in safari don't load, iTunes won't load etc.), but the ancient IBM pc on Windows XP conencts through the same at a good speed.
I am also in a wifi environment but my Macbook Air doesn't connect to anything - it keeps timing out (even when it can recognise several unsecured networks). Can anyone advise?
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Mine is slow too! The Charter tech was here for four hours today, redoing the entire building. Every other Mac and PC here are up to speed. The new Mac Pro Octo has never been up to speed. I really don't have time to put hours into what I suspect will be a dead end. Apple needs to look into this and help us out.

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