Trash pick-up day for iPhoto

Here's a little tip for all you eBay sellers who use Macs and process your photos with iPhoto -- empty your trash.

I have been using my same un-updatable version of iPhoto 2.0 for about 5 years and lately it has gotten so sluggish that it would actually take hours to get my photos from my camera to my .mac photo host. I would regularly delete photos from my iPhoto library, but (naive me) they weren't really gone.

Lo and behold there was a little file at the bottom of the file menu inside iPhoto labeled trash. I clicked on it yesterday and there sat more than 10,000 photos -- virtually everything I had sold for the past 5 years. I briefly considered going through them to pick out a few favorite items that I could write about, but using the program was like old-fashioned water torture, so I just clicked Empty Trash.

Last night when I uploaded a few photos it was pretty much back to its old self -- I was able to do a few listings and still make it to the couch in time for "Project Runway."