iPhoto Buddy: Speeds up iPhoto&#039;s load time

I came accross a neat freeware app today coded by Rick Neil called iPhoto Buddy. This app allows you to create more than one Library of photos so iPhoto can load more quickly. Each Library can be named, given an icon, and doesn't have to respect chronological time.

If you've been struggling with iPhoto taking a century to load because your Library has more than a couple thousand photos (or you are on a less zippy Mac), fear not, iPhoto Buddy will make your iLife easier.

iPhoto Buddy is compatible with iLife 04, 05, and 06, requires a minimum of OS 10.2.4, and even allows you to import an iPhoto Buddy created Library into iMovie or iDVD.

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I came accross a neat freeware app today coded by Rick Neil called iPhoto Buddy. This app allows you to create more than one Library of...

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Allan Glazer

How does iPhoto Buddy differ from iPhoto Library Manager? I would like to start using one of them but I am not sure which one. I need to organize my photos and have some on my iMac and some on my Powerbook. Is there a program that will combine the two iPhoto llibraries?

January 25 2006 at 10:25 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

stefan K

You can combine Libraries with iPhoto Library Manager. That also works pretty much the same as iPhoto Buddy.

January 23 2006 at 9:51 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

phi

I wonder if you can merge libraries. Now that would be cool

January 19 2006 at 4:16 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Mark Ford

Yes, you can have multiple Libraries with iPhoto6 too.

January 19 2006 at 12:40 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Sayling Low

You can go to or create another iPhoto library by holding down the option key when iPhoto launches anyway. This is why I found iPhoto Buddy redundant.

I haven't used iPhoto 6 but I can do this on iPhoto 5.0.4 I have on this G4 cube running 10.4.4

Sayling

January 19 2006 at 11:35 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Fabienne Serriere

deevee:

Yes you can use this to have some Libraries on external drives.

cheers,
fbz

January 19 2006 at 10:35 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

dee

hi,
just a little q?
can you use this to have a library or 2 on an external drive?
thanks....

January 19 2006 at 10:31 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Amyn

just a heads up... today is the birthday of Lisa. it was introduced today back in 1983

January 19 2006 at 9:39 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

yonatron

Yay. I'd been using iPhoto Buddy for quite some time, and am thrilled to hear it's been updated to support iLife '06. I don't even have that huge a library, but it's great to be able to switch to a second one before using Safari's "Add Image to iPhoto Library" contextual menu, so I don't mix up photos I've taken with random images I nicked from the web.

Also, if I want to try use iPhoto to convince family members to switch to a Mac, they don't have to see my dirty pictures.

January 19 2006 at 9:28 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

jerome

I came across that today as well...I was looking for a way to share my iPhoto library with another user on my mac. turns out that in iPhoto 5 you can do that anyway. I had previously been having a permissions nightmare. Happy Days!

January 19 2006 at 9:27 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply