![]() So sure, it might help a little bit, but probably not drastically.0 How to Back Up Your Photos: My Podcast Interview with Andrew Hellmich ![]() What's causing slow-downs with large libraries is likely that it does keep thumbnails ready at any time for when you roll past them, and maybe full resolution versions ready for the ones that it is display thumbnails for at that specific moment, and maybe a little beyond the screen borders too. It would surprise me a lot of Photos is keeping full resolution versions ready at all times anyways. I wouldn't think this would really make a very big difference. Sounds like we need another event like that.Īll of what I'm about to say is theoretical and not based on experience. I remember back in the iLife days, when increasing the performance for large libraries was a key feature presented for iPhoto. Currently not a feature, but it ought to be. That way, having one half on your internal and the other half on the external could speed up performance a good chunk by reading from multiple drives at once. I really wish there was an option to split the data among two drives (without using RAID or similar to make it a single logical volume) and have the Photos app read two libraries at once and treat it like one. Splitting the library is less than ideal, because, well, it splits up your photos and videos, and the whole point of an app like Photos is to keep it all sorted in one convenient place. ![]() Whether that be the internal drive (assuming it's a fast one like the SSDs or a good Fusion Drive) or a nice external SSD or something. In any case, if you're not RAM limited - and I'm assuming it's not CPU or GPU limited operations either, increasing the storage speed for the library drive will definitely be a performance win. I don't really know how Photos is coded specifically, but it surprises me that the size of the library impacts the editing speed to this degree. (BTW - I have considered dividing up the large library into two smaller ones, but would prefer not to go that route as the slow-downs are not really annoying at this point.)įaster storage will guarantee faster results in any case. (2) And, if I did change to the Optimized version, would moving the library to my internal HD on the iMac make a difference? (Not reasonable now considering the size of the library.) (1) I had it Optimized for Storage - which means everything would be stored in iCloud and only downloaded when I want to view a larger photo and/or edit. My question is would the app run better if: ![]() Not overly long - usually less than 20-30 seconds or so. But at times it seems to drag - Auto Enhancing a photo, swiping back and forth between photos - and I get the pretty little pinwheels. All the photos - should be obvious by the size of the library - are in the library itself (having the app set for downloading all originals). ![]() Now granted my Photos library (mid-2015 iMac running latest Mojave and Photos versions) is a bit on the large size (over 85,000 photos/videos and a bit under 700GB) and is on an external Western Digital USB 3.0 drive. I have a question about improving the performance of the Photos for Mac app. Did a few Google searches but couldn't find anything helpful. ![]()
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