Shane A. Stillwell
Rebuilding the iPhoto library

Rebuilding the iPhoto library

#Programming #Apple

Hold on Cowboy

This blog post is pretty old. Be careful with the information you find in here. It's likely dead, dying, or wildly inaccurate.

The number of photos I have in iPhoto is around 10,000. I like the new faces feature, but it just kept grinding my CPU for hours and days. I stumbled on a way to rebuild the iPhoto library, but it’s really hidden and I’ve never run across this type of a setup from Apple Software.

Essentially you need to hold down Option + Command while starting iPhoto and keep them held down until you get a window asking you what you want to rebuild. Interesting. Maybe I’ll report if solves the Faces issue with the CPU.

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Reference: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT263