Chapter 14. iPhoto File Management

For years , true iPhoto fans experienced the heartache of iPhoto Overloadthe syndrome in which the program gets too full of photos, winds up gasping for RAM, and acts as if you've slathered it with a thick coat of molasses. And for years, true iPhoto fans have adopted an array of countermeasures to keep the speed up, including splitting the Photo Library into several smaller chunks .

Now that iPhoto can manage 250,000 pictures per library, such drastic measures aren't generally necessary.

Nonetheless, learning how iPhoto manages its library files is still a worthy pursuit. It's the key to swapping Photo Libraries, burning them to CD, transferring them to other machines, and merging them together.