Rebuilding the iPhoto library

Submitted by shane on Sun, 2010-01-17 11:35

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 hours and days 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.

HT2638_1.png

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

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