October 2, 2010
How Much Overhead is Too Much?
Comparison of Picassa3 and iPhoto libraries of the same photo collection (about 17k images). In both cases the applications are only storing meta-data - the actual images are elsewhere, and I haven't manually input data (tags, names, etc) into either one.
$ du -sh Library/Application\ Support/Google/Picasa3/
136M Library/Application Support/Google/Picasa3/
iPhoto puked while trying to import the entire set into a single library, so I broke it up by year.
$ du -sh ~/Pictures/20[01][0-9]
38M /Users/dberger/Pictures/2001
148M /Users/dberger/Pictures/2002
215M /Users/dberger/Pictures/2003
123M /Users/dberger/Pictures/2004
333M /Users/dberger/Pictures/2005
2.0G /Users/dberger/Pictures/2006
1.1G /Users/dberger/Pictures/2007
4.2G /Users/dberger/Pictures/2008
3.5G /Users/dberger/Pictures/2009
5.8G /Users/dberger/Pictures/2010
Note to Apple - stop converting my CR2 raw files into jpegs and you might have a fighting chance...
Posted by dberger at 11:15 PM