If you’re trying to use iphoto ’09 on older pre-Intel hardware and/or if you have a very large photo library, you may have noticed that many face-related operations, such as tagging and drag-selecting, take an inordinate amount of time. During these delays, iphoto may appear to be locked, or you may be treated to the wonderful spinning beachball cursor show while iphoto thinks about what you’ve just asked it to do.

via Speed up iPhoto ‘09 operations on some Macs | Digital Photo | Mac OS X Hints | Macworld.

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