iPhoto is so damn slow it is surprising anyone likes it at all.
I was having issues with the stupid Facebook photo uploader and decided to fire up iPhoto again for the first time in 3 years after 2 major OS updates and don’t know how many iPhoto version it had been, in hopes of the Facebook iPhoto uploader would be better. I had opt out of copying files to the iPhoto Library thinking it would just index all my photos without duplicating them. iPhoto took it’s sweet time showing me all my photos in it’s importing screen and while I didn’t pay attention as to whether I have over 10s of thousands or 100s of thousands photo count on my HDD, I let it running overnight last night and went to bed.
Just before going to bed, I found and installed a Firefox add-on called Fire Uploader and was able to finish uploading a few photos to my Facebook album and I could get a good night sleep.
This morning while I was checking to see how iPhoto went, all I found was the iMac had frozen with the screen offed. I couldn’t wake the iMac up so I had to reboot it. It then took iPhoto over 2 minutes to load and showed that all it had in its Library was just over 200 lousy photos which I had deleted long time ago and it asked me if I want to finish importing the last remaining 6000 photos in my HDD! What it really wanted to do was to finish importing the remaining “recovered” photos. NONE of my legit photos had been imported at all!
All this time that I had iPhoto up and running, I thought Facebook as so slow last night that there must be some problem with their servers again. This morning before shutting down iPhoto, Facebook was at that same slow speed. I had since removed the iPhoto Library and shutdowned iPhoto and found that Facebook was running normal after that! Coincidence?
Picasa on the other hand is like a rabbit on steroids indexing photos in hyperspeed without duplicating any photos that’s already on the HDD or in the Trash bin.
Not sure why Facebook chooses to support crappy app and crappy phone; or it’s just Facebook itself that’s being crappy.
WhaUSay?!