Every image you create has a corresponding 2 files in the Data folder in the folder you images are in. While this doesn't really eat all that much space, I just don't understand why they didn't use a plist for this, it would have been simpler and saved much more space.Ĥ.
Every image you put in an album creates a symbolic link (aka Alias) to the original. Every album you create adds another folder to your disk. This also applies to images you have already edited (at least in iPhoto 2, haven't tried this in iPhoto '04) with iPhoto, if you closed the program between edits.ģ. remove red eye), which I highly discourage, iPhoto saves a copy of original import in an originals folder. If you ever use iPhoto to edit a picture (ie. While I am sure this was created to speed up the application, when you have a photo collection as large as some friends of mine (amature photographers) this amounts to a good deal of space.Ģ. For every picture that you import it creates a 20k thumbnail image. The only thing worse than iPhoto library's organization (or lack there of) is the amount of space that it wastes.ġ. I just have to accept the location that Apple decided on. Is there a shareware that does this or a hidden feature in iPhoto that I could turn on? Another thing that bugs me is that in iTunes I can choose the location where my music files are stored but not in iPhoto. If I do this in iPhoto, they will stay in the wrong folder. I need to change their date from the scan date to the date when they were taken. There is no problem with pictures that I take with my digital camera since they have the correct date but what about the old pictures that I scan. What's going on? Do I have to wait for iLife '05 and pay another $50? Well, I am really happy with the improved performance of iPhoto which was the only reason why I bought iLife '04 but I also expected Apple to have worked on the organizational side. But don't expect iPhoto to move the picture to the corresponding folder. But what if I change the date? I can do that, certainly, no problem. But what about iPhoto? I noticed that when I import pictures, iPhoto creates folders for the year, the month and the day which correspond to the date of the picture which is found to the bottom left of the displayed picture. Great! This makes it really easy to locate the music files on my hard drive. Check it and iTunes does it all for you: For example, change the name of the album and iTunes changes the name of the folder automatically. There is a very cool feature in iTunes under Preferences: "Keep iTunes Music folder organized".