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Hi everybody,
Everytime I try to free up some space on my hard drive, it always comes down to my iPhoto library, which is 41.1 GB. Now I know I like to take photos, but I was a bit surprised at the size, especially considering that I moved a bunch of old photos to an external hard drive.
So what I noticed is that:
1) There is actually two copies of each photo, an "original" and a "modified".
2) I think there may also be a "previews" copy as well.
3) Photos deleted from the library don't actually get deleted from the hard drive, so I have hundreds of crap worthless photos lost somewhere in there.
4) With iPhoto 09, at least the folders were organized in the same way as the library (by events), which made it relatively easy to move photos to an external drive. I thought that upgrading to iPhoto 11 would improve the first 3 points, but what it did is that now the folders are organized apparently by date - except my photos are all mixed up in a bunch of folders whose names are not indicative of their contents.
Am I missing something? Should I be using Picasa instead to keep my photos organized? I like iPhoto on many levels but it seems the file management is abysmal. Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance!
Cheers
Axel
Everytime I try to free up some space on my hard drive, it always comes down to my iPhoto library, which is 41.1 GB. Now I know I like to take photos, but I was a bit surprised at the size, especially considering that I moved a bunch of old photos to an external hard drive.
So what I noticed is that:
1) There is actually two copies of each photo, an "original" and a "modified".
2) I think there may also be a "previews" copy as well.
3) Photos deleted from the library don't actually get deleted from the hard drive, so I have hundreds of crap worthless photos lost somewhere in there.
4) With iPhoto 09, at least the folders were organized in the same way as the library (by events), which made it relatively easy to move photos to an external drive. I thought that upgrading to iPhoto 11 would improve the first 3 points, but what it did is that now the folders are organized apparently by date - except my photos are all mixed up in a bunch of folders whose names are not indicative of their contents.
Am I missing something? Should I be using Picasa instead to keep my photos organized? I like iPhoto on many levels but it seems the file management is abysmal. Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance!
Cheers
Axel