Why is my iPhoto library in FCPX?

do my clients need to EVER see it?

simple answer is that your iPhoto library size depends on the number of photos and size of those photos - how many photos do you have> What version of iPhtoo? Of the OS? how large is a typical photo?
as to iCloud - no photos are stored in iCloud (except your IOS device backups) - iCloud today is a way to share photos - not store them
For iPhone questions it is best to ask in the iPhone forum
LN

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Why is the iPhoto Library file so big?

Why is the iPhoto Library File so big?
I cancelled the option in settings that it copies the files to the Library but the LIbrary file grows and grows when I import new photos?
Can someone help me?

You have disabled "Copy items to the iPhoto Library"?
Then the original image files should not be imported; you can check this by selecting one of the recently imported photos and using the command "File > Reveal in Finder > Original File". Does it show you a file outside the library?
Your library will grow in size, when you import and edit photos, even if the originals are not included. iPhoto will store thumbnails of your photos, previews of the edited versions, of the faces, and if you sync your library with iTunes, there will also be an iPod Photo cache, that can be quite large:
iTunes: Understanding the iPod Photo Cache folder
You know, that disabling "Copy items to the iPhoto Library" is quite risky, don't you? Just in case you are not aware of the risks - iPhoto does provide no tools at all, if the connection between your referenced original files and your thumbnails in iPhoto gets broken. Or if you need to move your photos to a different drive, when the drive fails, as will happen one day. You will not be able to migrate the library to a new computer or restoring from your backup will be difficult. You will need third party apps like iPhoto Library Manager to recover from such a situation.
If you need to free space on your mac it is much safer to move the whole library to an external drive, or to split it and relocate the partial library with the older photos to an external drive.
-- Léonie

Why does my iPhoto Library.photolibrary in my MacAir running OS X Yosemite keep expanding?

Why does my iPhoto Library.photolibrary in my MacAir running OS X Yosemite keep expanding?

I will find a way to empty the system trash
Does the System Trash refuse to empty?
Usually simply clicking the Trash icon in the Dock will show you a window with the content of the Trash and a button labelled "Empty".
Or ctrl-click the Trash icon in the Dock and select "Empty Trash".

Why is my iPhoto Library duplicating photos

why is my iPhoto library duplicating photo's, sometimes 3 times ?

Your iPhoto library is not duplicating anything. Give virtually no information the only guess is that you imported an old iPhoto library into a new one. NEVER import one photo library into another one. If you did and still have the old library you can easily recover. Drag the library you messed up to the desktop and drag the old library to the pictures folder and launch iPhoto
LN

Why is my iPhoto library greyed out in the Screensaver folder selection dialog on one iMac but not my other?

Why is my iPhoto library greyed out in the Screensaver folder selection dialog on one iMac but not my other?

I have an update to my issue above, with a Semi-solution found. I brought my Macbook Air back to the Genus bar today and they were able to identify (using “Activity Monitor”) that when the particular iPhoto library was being launched through iPhoto both Photostream and iPhoto's CPU% usage was excessively high (between 100% - 200% each). She discovered that if we turn off Photostream in iCloud settings iPhoto then behaved fast and snappy and CPU% came back down to a healthier level. When we turned Photostream back on the problem continued. After an hour of trying to trouble shoot why Photostream was causing the issue they recommended I keep Photostream turned off until a future software update/fix comes out. The particular Genus I worked with was not familiar with this issue. I’m very happy to at least be able to use iPhoto again, but if anyone has ideas or theories on how the Photostream conflict can be fixed please share. Thanks.

Why does old iPhoto library show that it's been updated?

I 'backed up' my iPhoto library a few months ago by dragging it to and creating a copy on an external drive. I never used that extra, copied library. I continued using the one in my home Pictures folder on my hard drive.
I am moving stuff around for extra hard drive space when I recognize my iPhoto library on my external drive (just as I left it, I'd just forgotten about it). So for kicks, I clicked on GET INFO for that file so that I could compare it to my current iPhoto library.
Both were 'created' on the same day in 2009. The old one was a little smaller than the active one. Fine.
Interestingly, my backup copy said that it was Modified: Yesterday 5:30pm.
my current library said that it was Modified: Today 10:10pm.
QUESTION: Why was my unused, backup copy of iPhoto Library modified yesterday when I haven't accessed that file, clicked on the icon, or even remembered that it was there (until today)?
I appreciate any insight you may have. While not a burning issue, my interest is piqued. THANKS!

Have you rebooted since the deletions. That will empty a number of caches and may restore the freed up space. Also open the iPhoto Library package with the Finder as shown in this screenshot
locate the iPod Photo Cache folder and delete its contents. Make no other changes to the contents of the iPHoto LIbrary Package.
OT

Why does the iPhoto library file copy so slowly?

Every few months I back up all the important stuff on my MacBook Pro (Mid 2012, 13", 750GB) to my 3TB external hard drive.
This has worked well for as long as I can remember. I used to have a proper backup program but due to the nature of my work and files, recently I prefer to just manually copy over each individual folder in my parent home folder, so I can have control of what is replaced and what is merged, etc.
However this time backing up, I had to copy every folder and file in 'Pictures' separately. This is because after trying to copy the parent folder in one transfer it didn't seem to be working well. I noticed that around the 11.22GB mark, the transfer would always slow right down from ~35MB/s to ~0.5MB/s. As you can imagine, with a Pictures folder totalling almost 300GB, this isn't something I wanted to put up with.
In the end, I figured out what was causing the issue. I tried copying just the iPhoto library file and discovered the problem occurred again.
Why? Is this a Yosemite bug or is it to do with the way that the file is structured?
It works fine otherwise and does not seem damaged.

no idea
maybe if you provided some information someone could help
What version of iPhoto? Of the OS? Why do you think it is getting larger? what exactly are you doing?
Could it be downloading photos from Your PhotoStream?
LN

Why did my iPhoto library balloon from 3,500 photos to 53,000 photos?

I had to repair my drive. I exported my library to another drive. When I imported my iPhoto library back to my repaired drive, my library ballooned from 3,500 photos to 53,000 photos. There's hundreds and hundreds of duplicates. Pictures with just faces from whole pix and cryptic names under the photos. I included a screenshot. My whole iphoto library is messed up. If you have any ideas on how I can get rid of the duplicates that would be awesome!

Why? Because of this:
When I imported my iPhoto library back to my repaired drive...
Never import one Library to another. Every version and thumbnail is imported like a distinct photo, you lose all your Albums, Keywords etc., the link between Original and Previews is destroyed, the non-destructive editing feature is ruined and so on. In summary: it's mess.
So, trash your this library and next time simply move the library to the Pictures Folder and then open iPhoto.

Why does my iPhoto Library say 32gb when there's only one photo in it?

I am trying to figure out why my MacBook Air is running out of space, and am finding out that Photostream isn't photos in the cloud, it's photos in the cloud that it stores on my different computers hard drives or storage. So, I turned off Photostream, and deleted the pics as Disk Inventory X is telling me that my iPhoto Library is taking up 32.7gb of storage, despite there only being one picture in there that is no special picture. I deleted all the rest. There is ONE picture in the whole iPhoto Library, I deleted all the rest! What is taking up 32gb of my HD???

Have you rebooted since the deletions. That will empty a number of caches and may restore the freed up space. Also open the iPhoto Library package with the Finder as shown in this screenshot
locate the iPod Photo Cache folder and delete its contents. Make no other changes to the contents of the iPHoto LIbrary Package.
OT

Why is my iPhoto library blank after update?

Strange things that happened:
1) I updated to Yosemite from mavericks
2) accidentally unplugged external drive storing iPhoto library
3) tried to open iPhoto and it told me that my library was out of date and needed to be updated and rebuilt
4) went though this process but it crashed
5) tried reopening iPhoto but it now asked for permissions to be updated
6) iphoto crashed again during this updating
7) ran through this a couple more attempts
8) opened iPhoto to find a blank library
9) pointed iPhoto to library but still shows as empty
10) tried pointing to another library and again to original with no success
11) opened iPhoto library package and I now have 'old masters' and 'Masters'
12) several years seem to be missing from these two folders
13) I have been backing up what I can from these folders
Q1 - Does anyone have any idea where the missing years could be? I did have some photos out of there appropriate years so could they be in another year's folder possibly. What is the best way to search for these in finder?
Q2- What is the best way to rebuild library? note-my time machine does not backup my photo library due to size of 600gb
Thanks in advance!

11) opened iPhoto library package and I now have 'old masters' and 'Masters'
12) several years seem to be missing from these two folders
You got bitten by a nasty bug.
The upgrade of your library got interrupted, and some of your photos are still in the "Old ..." folders. There is no known fix for this, that can save your iPhoto library. We are still waiting for a bug fix from Apple. What you can do, copy out your original photos, that are still in the "Old Masters" and "Masters", and save these folders.
Then restore your library from your most recent backup and use the saved "Old " folders to reimport and add the newest photos, that are missing in your backup.
The "years" folders in "Masters" and "Old Masters" are the years, when the photos have been imported, not necessarily the years when the photos have been taken.

Why is my iPhoto library no longer an option for Screen Saver in Mavericks?

My Screen Saver no longer pulls random photos from my selected iPhoto library. When I went into System Preferences --> Screen Saver I no longer see iPhoto folders as a Screen Saver option. Was a change made with Mavericks? When I try to select my Pictures -> iPhoto Library from the Screen Saver it is greyed out.
Thanks!

There are no drivers. I didn't have to install anything the first time around, there's nothing on the website that mentions OSX support.

Why does my iPhoto library keep losing thumbnails?

I own an external Hard Drive containing my photographs and in the past 2 weeks, my iPhoto thinks it's a good idea to lose all of my thumbnails for my photographs.
When it tries to rebuild itself, nothing happens and remains the same and when I do it myself it's the same thing with no result. Had to create a new library but lost all of my photographs and when I redirected to my original library all photo's appeared!
Thought it was my hard drive but it seems to be working fine as my music library is on there too and seems to be working fine?
Is this an issue synonymous with iPhoto and has anyone experienced this. As a freelance photographer, this is rather annoying!
Thanks for reading,
Stevie.

Thanks for the info guys.
The Format is Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
Just to let you know, my iPhoto Library did the same thing again where all thumbnails were missing. When I select an album to view, the pictures appears as cut outs similar to when first importing.
To resolve this I had to select another Library I had setup then re-select my original library where all of my photographs appeared.
Really not liking this system as I'm worried it may cost me money in losing the work of my clients. Appreciate your words of wisdom and advice; one and all.

Why keep old iPhoto Library?

This does not make any sense to me at all. Apple creates a new and improved Photo's app that is supposed to replace iPhoto and Aperture. Yet after the conversion it still requires that we keep the iPhoto and Aperture Libraries on our hard drives. What if we need the space and don't want everything duplicated? What happens when the decide to come out with a newer and more improved Photo's app?

1. Your data isn't being duplicated; the media only counts once towards the amount of space used despite appearing in both libraries. Click here for more information.
2. The same as what's happening now. You don't need to keep the iPhoto library, but may want to until any glitches have been worked out.
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Why has my iPhoto Library become huge ?

Since I upgraded to iPhoto 11 the size of my library has tripled.
I have about 19,000 pics. Most are about a MB in size.
How could my library be 72 GB?
If I recall correctly it was about 20 GB before the upgrade.
Thanks, Eli

I did a standard upgrade from the previous version of iPhoto.
I ran a scan with Grand Perspective to get a better idea of the package contents of the iphoto library.
One of the things that stuck out was the iPod photo cache which is 16GB.
(We sync two iPhones with this iMac)

Why does iPhoto library

why does my iPhoto library (total) take up 85GB while I only have 20GB of images?

The iPhoto Window reports the size of the resulting folder if you exported everything at the "current" setting. The iPhoto Library in the Finder contains all your photos, their previews and thumbnails along with database and cache files.
Regards
TD

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