iPhoto '11 TROUBLE

sphardy wrote:

franklahm wrote: My iPhoto Lib is 12 GB big and resides on an AFP volume. It's not ta snappy, but perfectly usable. Similar size to what I've tested with on average, but I've also gone up to ~30GB. In no sense was iPhoto usable for anything but the smallest of libraries (few hundred - upto 1000 photos) - I could wait 5-10 minutes just for iPhoto to start, and this was even with a brand new library of just imported photos. And I have seen many posts here and on other forums stating similar issues. My last test was ~3 months ago using a brand new Ultra-4, a 3GHz iMac, connected via a Netgear GbE switch which has shown no issues previously, and 2m CAT6 cables. I tested along side iSCSI support (as did other users at the time) and there was just no comparison. iSCSI worked fine with no noticeable performance difference between the iSCSI host library and an local library, whereas over a network protocol it was unusable.

Sorry to derail the thread further, but I just want to point out that I've had my iPhoto library on my ReadyNAS NV+ for a couple years now, and am using iPhoto '09 as I type this. My library is 13251 photos and 199 movies, and it takes up 46.7 GB. It's not zippy like a local one would be, but on a 2010 MacBook Pro it works pretty well for my setup that goes over a 25' CAT6 cable. Startup could be faster (I just restarted it at the same time as another computer is backing to with Time Machine to the same NAS, and it took a slow 45 seconds to start up... usually it's somewhat faster, though not "fast" for sure!)... But it's not at all like you described it!

I don't know why I would be getting these results and you're getting such different results.

BACK to the reported problem though... Question: Have you tried right-clicking on the iPhoto Library and selecting "Show Package Contents"? Not sure it would shed any light on it one way or the other... EDIT: Oh, I think I misunderstood... you can't even open the SHARE ("volume") that contains the library?? Ugh... Try using Terminal and navigating to it that way to see if you can get into it from there? Shooting in the dark here :?

My wife got a new laptop with iPhoto '11 installed, and now I'm scared... I'll have to tell her NOT to update the library until I have a better sense of what's going on here.........