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Question

iPhoto Import speed

May 27, 2015 8:48AM PDT

I created a new iPhoto library as the old one was not being recognized by the application. I copied the data over. Now iPhoto seems to be taking forever when invoking on the new library. It seems hung up on importing process. Is there any way to speed up or bypass this process?

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Clarification Request
How did you copy the data from one library
May 27, 2015 9:50AM PDT

to the other?


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iPhoto Libaray Copy
May 28, 2015 4:24AM PDT

Originally I tried using iPhoto Library Import feature. However it was taking
way too long. Therefore I used a 'cp -R' option and am re-invoking iPhoto.

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Answer
I'm going with no.
May 27, 2015 9:04AM PDT

Not only is there the work of the import but it may have to open each image to create a thumbnail. That's a lot of heavy computing going on.