Nikon View 6

I am not sure what is going on, but viewing my photos on my imac from Nikon View takes f o r e v e r , so bad as to be almost unusable. The situation seems to have become worse as I loaded up the imac hard drive, so I moved most of the photos to an external, but the problem persists. How do you Nikon users view your photos and any ideas why Nikon View 6 is like molasses? Is NX View any better?

What kind of disk space is left on your main drive? Your drive may need to be defragged. Nikon View and the operating system may be trying to use disk space for their temp files and are having to gather large numbers of non-contiguous disk space. ummm I use Photoshop and Apple's Preview.

Troup

Gary, I use a MacBook Pro running Leopard (10.5.5). My disk is 94% full, and I'm using Nikon View NX 1.0.3 with no problems. It simply could be Nikon view 6 ??? I use ViewNX to view my images for the initial edit after I've downloaded. I too store images on an external drive. Do you have CS4?

Also I've read that OS X automatically defrags files less than 20 MBs in size, so unless you have a disk full of very large files there's little need for defragmenting the hard drive.

Gary, I've just had a couple of additional thoughts. Is there some reason you don't download to your primary disk drive first and then move your images to your secondary drive?

I know that if I use Bridge to move my files to the secondary drive, it takes forever, but if I move the files from the command line with the UNIX mv command, it's fast.

Just more stuff to think about ...

Carol

If you have a newer Nikon (D200, D300, etc.), and are viewing NEF files, that could be the problem. Nikon View 6.xxx struggles and crashes with these. View NX is a free download from Nikon and works fine.

Thank you for your replies. I downloaded View NX and everything works far better than before, very fast loading and viewing. Problem solved... knock on wood. Again, thanks for the suggestions.