Photo Management with large iPhoto libraries

I have over 50,000 photos in iPhoto and this slows iPhoto to the point of hanging. I am now importing new photos into a new library but this is a nuisance when wanting to select photos from both libraries for a specific porject. I'm not keen to have to import photos from one library to another. This seems very cumbersome. I have backed up my photos onto an external hard drive with Time Machine.
What's the best and most practical way to manage a large number of photos with many themes.
I'd appreciate some suggestions. I'm quite new to iPhoto.

A large SSD. Or external drive. Might help to max out RAM.
Some laptop models can take dual SSD internal
http://www.macsales.com/ssd
Might want to look up the iPhoto forum and support.
https://discussions.apple.com/community/ilife/iphoto
Move iphoto library to external drive -
http://basics4mac.com/article.php/move_iphoto_lib
You probably thought you were in MacBook Pro forum.
https://discussions.apple.com/community/notebooks/macbook_pro
http://www.apple.com/support/macbookpro/

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How do i deal with multiple iPhoto libraries when migrating to Photos

how do i deal with multiple iPhoto libraries when migrating to Photos

I would merge them before the migration. Also, spend some time doing any batch changes of names and dates beforehand too.
iPhoto Library Manager has good merge and duplicate search facilities.
http://www.fatcatsoftware.com/iplm/

Managing a large iphoto library

There's plenty of discussion on this topic but im not sure there is a clear winner on the best way to manage a large iphoto library stored on an external hard drive across a MacBook Air and an ipad. Ideally I want to have all my photos on the ipad for viewing and sharing, reduced file size is fine, and be able to sync with my latest photos that are to be uploaded on the mac book air.
I have aperture, and currently have my library split so old photos are on the external drive and newest ones on the macbook air. This gets around the fact i cant fit my full library on the air However, this means I can't sync with the ipad without erasing the older photos not currently in the MacBook Air.
One idea I read about was to store the originals on the harddrive and only thumbnails on the MacBook Air allowing all photos to be stored in a sync-able library. However I'm worried that splitting out the originals will mess with the library.
Any suggestions much appreciated

One idea I read about was to store the originals on the harddrive and only thumbnails on the MacBook Air allowing all photos to be stored in a sync-able library. However I'm worried that splitting out the originals will mess with the library.
I have no idea where you read this but it is not possible with iPhoto - it is with Aperature
generally the best idea for iPhoto is to keep interesting and recent photos on your MBA and the complete library on an EHD using iPhoto Library Manager - http://www.fatcatsoftware.com/iplm/ - to manage the libraries and move photos as needed
as to the iPad - best to ask in the iPad forum - you can not "share" an iPhoto library with an iPad - you can only share selected photos from the library - I would think you would do this from the complete library on the EHD
LN

How do I rename the iphoto library on one computer before importing it to another location with other iphoto libraries?

How do I rename the iphoto library on one computer before importing it to another location with other iphoto libraries?

How do I rename the iphoto library on one computer before importing it to another location with other iphoto libraries?
Quit iPhoto.
Select the Library in the Finder, click the name, and edit the name like for any file.

Photo Sync with new iPhoto Library

I created a new iPhoto-Library. This one is now set as "standard". But if i try to sync the photos from this new library to the iPhone, iTunes still shows the pictures from the old iPhoto-Library. How can I tell iTunes to use the new library?

This is normal, which cannot be changed.
All photos transferred from your computer and iPhoto to your iPhone are stored in your iPhone's Photo Library.
The photos in the iPhoto album include a pointer to the original photos stored in the Photo Library - the photos are not duplicated. Just as with iPhoto - all photos in all iPhoto albums are stored in your main iPhoto library. A photo cannot be in an iPhoto album unless the photo is available in your main iPhoto library, and a photo in your main iPhoto library can be in multiple iPhoto albums. The photos in the iPhoto albums are not duplicated - they include a pointer to the original photos stored in your main iPhoto library.
If you select multiple iPhoto albums to be transferred to your iPhone, all photos in all albums are stored in your iPhone's Photo Library. This way you can view all photos available in an album only by selecting the album under the Photo Library on your iPhone, or you can view all photos available in all albums by selecting Photo Library.
iTunes is the same. A song cannot be available in an iTunes playlist unless the song is in your iTunes library, and a song in your iTunes library can be available in multiple playlists. Songs in an iTunes playlist are not duplicated. This way you can listen to the songs in a playlist only by selecting the playlist, or you can listen to all songs in all playlists and/or available in your iTunes library by selecting Music.

Aperture crashes importing large iPhoto libraries

You wouldn't believe the trouble I am going through to import a 50,000-photo iPhoto Library. Since Aperture crashes while trying to import it, I must break up the iPhoto library into pieces. Since iPhoto can't export its database and photos intact unless you export to DVD, I am forced to export part of the library to 1 DVD at a time. Thankfully, I have a dual-layer burner on a new PowerBook or this process would take twice as many DVDs. But I'm still using about a dozen dual-layer DVDs just to export, then using the DVDs to re-import to a blank iPhoto Library and then importing each of those one at a time into Aperture.
All because Apple has no export to hard drive feature in iPhoto (maintaining structure and keywords and originals/mods), and because Apple's Aperture crashes on import of a large iPhoto library.
Ridiculous.

I have the same problem. I have about 15,000 photos in my iPhoto library that I've attempted 5 times to import unsuccessfully. The most recent tries had Aperture crash after 6439 (8746) images and 2620 (3667) images. The numbers in parentheses are the number of actual unstacked photos, since it imports two photos for any photo you editted in iPhoto (which I quite like).
I've read the crash reports, and I'm not certain why/where it is crashing, since the thread it says crashed has almost no debug info in it.
I attempted to import one roll at a time using the Import Files... dialog, and pointing it to the iPhoto Library. That was working, but given the hundreds of rolls I had, would have taken me a month of doing to get it done manually.
I am using a pair of external drives to do the import. One, a LaCie portable laptop drive, on FW400, has the iPhoto library. The other, a LaCie desktop FW800 drive, has the new Aperture library. Don't know if that is relevant.
I am fairly certain that for every file imported, Aperture is touching at least 20-30 files, based upon my perusal of the filesystem structure.
To bad it can't just figure out where it left off (which I can easily do by looking around the filesystem). For example, to get an estimate of the number of photos imported so far:
AdmiralOSX:/Volumes/MediaLibraryBottom/Aperture Library.aplibrary/iPhoto Library/Rolls$ ls /importgroup | grep -v '^$' | fgrep -v \: | wc -l
8297
To see which roll is importing:
AdmiralOSX:/Volumes/MediaLibraryBottom/Aperture Library.aplibrary/iPhoto Library/Rolls$ ls -lrt | tail -1
drwxr-xr-x 8 XXXX XXXX 272 Dec 9 04:07 2004-08-17 Roll 80.approject
And so forth.
Cheers,
Doug

Using SIT connection manager with large simulink models is extremely slow

Hello,
I'm trying to use a large simulink model in LabVIEW but once the DLL is correctly generated and the SIT connection manager is invoked to explore the model sinks, sources and parameters, it takes hours to generate the model connections tree. Afterwards, when the connections tree is completed, it is impossible to handle it because every operation performed takes a lot of time and memory (i.e. to expand a block to see which parameters are inside).
The version of SIT I'm using is 2.0.3 with LabVIEW 7.1.
Is there anybody experienced with large simulink models and SIT?
Thanks and regards.
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Simply create a control from this input terminal on your driver VI and fill in an appropriate period in seconds. Make sure to set this value as default in the control so that the Driver VI remembers it.
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Synching Photo's Between Two iPhoto Libraries

I have a new imac that I just imported all the photos from my old powerbook onto (and the Events caused many duplicates, apparenty of photos that had been edited). After fixing and organizing everything, I plan on installing the new iLife on my old Powerbook.
When I do, is there a way to have the two libraries stay in sync with each other? I have a .Mac account if this helps in anyway.
If not, is there any file to copy between them that contains the Information (event names, keywords, etc...) so I do not have to relabel everything.'
Thanks in advance.

Steve:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. No, there's no easy way to sync libraries. Until iPhoto Library Manager gets updated to be compatible with iPhoto 7, the best way will be to export by roll (selecting the option to include keywords and titles) to a folder on the Desktop and then import that folder, with the same name as the Event it came from, to the other library. This will keep the keywords, comments and titles intact.
Trying to sync two libraries with a backup/syncing application will only damage both libraries.
Do you Twango?
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
I've written an Automator workflow application (requires Tiger), iPhoto dB File Backup, that will copy the selected Library6.iPhoto file from your iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder, replacing any previous version of it. It's compatible with iPhoto 08 libraries. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.

Easier backup of large iPhoto libraries in version 6?

If I upgrade from v5 to v6 will backup be easier? My library is >12 GB. An easily restorable backup requires using eg Backup 3 for a set of >=3 DVDs (hard to do this to backup frequently- and possibly flaky), or breaking it up into libraries <4.3GB using eg iPhoto Library Manager.
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Working with 2 iPhoto libraries

I bought a new iMac and downloaded 4 months worth of pictures from my camera into the new iphoto in the new mac, and then deleted it from the camera.
I later decided to transfer the pictures from iphoto 09 in my old MBP. I copied the iphoto library from the MBP from a backup in an external drive and paste it in the pictures folder in the new iMac. It asked that i already have a folder called iphoto library and if i want to replace it or keep both. I clicked keep both and the computer renamed it "iPhoto library 2". I then opened iphoto and the computer told me that it needs to update the library. After it finished iphoto opened up and it has only the pictures from my old MBP but I can't seem to find the newer pictures that I had transfered to the iMac from the camera into the original library.
I still have both libraries in the pictures folder but I don't know how to find them in there. Can anyone please explain to me how to restore the events and pictures that I transfered from the camera?

Double-click the other one or launch iPhoto with the Option key held down and point it there.
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Managing iPhoto Libraries

I am having trouble with my iPhoto libraries. I'm on a MacBook Air, and I keep running out of drive space. To solve this, among other deletions, I end up moving my iphoto libraries to external hard drives. So now I have three iphoto libraries, and am in need, once again, of clearing space off my laptop.
Does anyone have suggestions how to do this more efficiently?
Thanks

Yes - use iPhoto Library Manager - http://www.fatcatsoftware.com/iplm/ - to merge the libraries on teh external drive and then use iplm to move photos between the MBA and the external libraries
LN

HELP! 24,700 photos - can I/should I merge iPhoto libraries?

I've been using iPhoto Buddy for a couple of years now to manage 3 different iPhoto libraries. I have coming up on 25,000 photos going back to 96 with my first digital camera. This has become a real pain switching libraries. Also - it limits how I can distribute the content (i.e. AppleTV/iTunes will only look at one library) I seperated them a while back because iPhoto wasn't stable enough to handle too many pictures in a single library without being prone to crashes.
I know nobody really knows if iPhoto 8 will help in this area (as I do plan to soon get a new 24" iMac)... but in general, is there any way to merge all 3 libraries and preserve keywords, film rolls, etc?

Apple deleted (record time!) my post on the merge topic, see the text below. (I omitted a few lines that might have pushed Apple's hypervigilant complaint monitoring team over the line, the full text is on "Gordon's Tech".
I spent some time over lunch with iPhoto 7. It's a good improvement and well worth what I paid to buy a copy. There is NO SUPPORT for library merging, but the .Mac support is better. You may be able to publish albums to .Mac and then import at the album level. Obviously, this is not satisfactory.
In my post below I comment on iPhoto Library Manager, an app I greatly appreciate and admire but which does not meet my requirements completely. I think Apple's unofficial answer is "buy Aperture", but you should know Aperture does not allow you to edit date metadata (so you can't sort scans, for example).
You're traveling with your MacBook. Organizing photos, adding metadata, creating albums, slideshows, etc. You get home. You want to import your travel library to the main library, preserving ALL the versions and metadata.
You have just married the Mac Geek of your dreams. You need to merge Libraries into the shared folder (which can't be shared over a network, but let's just ignore that). How do you do that?
You created and used separate Libraries back with iPhoto bogged down at 2000 images. Now you want to combine them, preserving version relationships, album relationships, descriptions, titles, keywords, roll information, photo books, slideshows, etc, etc.
Yes, I know about iPhoto Library Manager. I license and use it. It does miracles with Apple's limited merge support, but some metadata is lost. I also had so many issues with earlier version merges that, even though I use it all the time, I'm gun-shy. Sorry, merging Libraries is very complex. It's hard to believe that anyone but Apple can do it safely.
iLife 2008 (iPhoto 7) is the fourth release in a row to disappoint those of us asking for Library management....
tags: jfaughnan, jgfaughnan, import, merge, combine, library

Is it possible to sync multiple iphoto libraries with the iPhone?

I have two libraries in iPhoto 08 but iTunes only lets me pick the default iPhoto library to sync with my iPhone. Is there a way to sync the iPhone with multiple iPhoto libraries?

You are correct. This used to work in the past although admittedly I haven't tried it for some time as it was of no direct use for my purposes.
If the goal is to see another MobileMe account's calendar(s) on your iOS device then an alternative would be to share the calendar(s) in question to yourself.
Example:
Assume you currently have MobileMe user account A on your iPhone.
Login to MM user account B with me.com which has the calendar you wish to have access to on your iPhone
Click on Calendars
Click on the Share button for the calendar you wish to see added to your iPhone.
Type in the MobileMe email address for MM user account A and set it for read & write access
Login to MM user account A on me.com
Go to calendars and accept the invitation to join the calendar you sent from MM account B
Go your iPhone (you may need to turn it on and off to make the calendars refresh ) and check your calendars, you should now have the other calendars added to your MobileMe account A's calendar
Note: You can repeat step # 3 for each of the calendars you wish to see on your iPhone.

Best way to merge multiple iPhoto libraries from several external hard drives into one, while deleting duplicates?

Problem: My wife and I both have MacBook Pros (MBPs). We take a lot of pictures and import them into iPhoto. When the storage capacity of our MBPs gets full, I have been moving our iPhoto libraries into external hard drives, which are now multiple (3 or 4). The problem I now realize we have been making, is that once the iPhoto libraries were copied onto the external hard drives, we were only deleting about half of the photos in each iPhoto library remaining in our MBPs (because we wanted to keep some of the important ones in our hard drives). Once the storage capacities of our MBPs got full again, I would repeat the whole process again and again. In essence I now have several large iPhoto libraries (each about 80 GB), each with multiple duplicate photos, divided among several external hard drives. And I am running out of space on my hard drive again. So what is the best way to:
a) merge all of these iPhoto libraries into just one, while simultaneously being able to delete all the duplicates? (or would you not recommend this?)
b) prevent this from happening again?
Thanks. BTW I am using OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.5 and iPhoto 8.1.2 (2009)

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Otherwise the only way to merge Libraries is with the paid ($30) version of iPhoto Library Manager
The Library Manager app can be set avoid duplicates.

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Hi I have a problem with multiple iPhoto libraries on my ext hard drive back up They are different sizes and large 120gb Is there any way I can rationalise the libraries without the risk of losing data? My iPhoto library on the Mac appears to be complete but with >200gb of photos I cannot be sure.

I upgraded to Lion OS and suffered multiple crashes necessitating a complete rebuild of the system - reformat the main hard drive and install Lion OS from a disk In an effort to be absolutely sure I didn't lose data I have been overenthusiastic in transferring photos to the backup disk dragging and dropping files that contained images as well as a full transfer of "mymac" before reformating. Time machine backup was not realistic as this was the one operation which caused most of the "hangs" System now appears to be working well with Lion OS but I have masses of duplicate jpeg files in multiple folders and libraries - I am considering purchasing Duplicate Annihilator to deal with the duplicates then perhaps I should try to merge the libraries with iPhoto manager?

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