[DM-MUG] backing up photos, and fetching

[Darcy Baston]

I love to use iPhoto for everyday photo collection/organizing, and  
use it to backup photos to DVD.

I often find myself needing to go back into a backed up disc to fetch  
a photo, and it's the most time consuming thing to do. iPhoto is so  
slow displaying a page of thumbnails off a DVD, that I often have to  
sit there waiting 3-5 seconds between pagedowns, and a half hour can  
go by before I find the photo.

Once a page is rendered once though, it gets cached and it becomes as  
quick as if it was on the hard drive.

Is there a way to get iPhoto to read the backup faster, or cache the  
whole thing without me having to pagedown, wait 3 seconds, page down,  
wait 3 seconds etc. ?

I've tried using iView for speed because its catalog approach works  
brilliantly for scrolling through a backup set, but for some reason  
every time I do a burn and tell it to include the catalog on the  
backup disc, the catalog created is burned still pointing to the  
original content on the hard drive. So once I clean up the hard disc  
and go fetching on the backup in the future, using the burned copy of  
the catalog, it can't find the photos.

I've tried managing the catalogs on the hard drive so I can find  
items/reset paths and have it point to a backup CD, but it can't  
reset paths when two filenames are the same. It also crashes a lot  
when trying to update the location of images in a catalog so I can't  
make any further progress with it.

Darcy Baston -- http://web.mac.com/darcybaston