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Dec 16, 2010 5:19 PM in response to pomme4moiby Niel,Drag the iPhoto Library of the Pictures item in the Finder's sidebar over, launch iPhoto with the Option key held down, and point it there.
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Dec 16, 2010 9:11 PM in response to pomme4moiby LarryHN,Unless the NAS is formatted Mac OS extended (journaled) you will not be able to run the iPhoto library on it
If it is then Moving the iPhoto library is safe and simple - quit iPhoto and drag the iPhoto library intact as a single entity to the external drive - depress the option key and launch iPhoto using the "select library" option to point to the new location on the external drive - fully test it and then trash the old library on the internal drive (test one more time prior to emptying the trash)
And be sure that the External drive is formatted Mac OS extended (journaled) (iPhoto does not work with drives with other formats) and that it is always available prior to launching iPhoto
And backup soon and often - having your iPhoto library on an external drive is not a backup and if you are using Time Machine you need to check and be sure that TM is backing up your external drive
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Dec 16, 2010 11:02 PM in response to pomme4moiby Terence Devlin,As Larry says: iPhoto needs to have the Library sitting on disk formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Users with the Library sitting on disks otherwise formatted regularly report issues including, but not limited to, importing, saving edits and sharing the photos.
iPhoto 11 will give you an message telling you the Disk is unsupported.
Workaround: Put the Library on an appropriately formatted Disk Image and store that on the NAS.
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Dec 17, 2010 8:51 AM in response to pomme4moiby pomme4moi,Thanks. Is there a NAS on the market whose disks can be formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled)? I looked at the Synology and QNAP NAS devices, and they appear not to support OS Extended ... -
Dec 17, 2010 9:20 AM in response to pomme4moiby LarryHN,Not that I've seen - using a corrected formatted disk image does work according to many reports
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Dec 17, 2010 9:39 AM in response to LarryHNby skyelement,Please define "NAS"
Is that some kind of external drive, like a LaCie?
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Dec 17, 2010 10:22 AM in response to skyelementby LarryHN,No - it is a Network Attached Storage device - basically another computer on the network dedicated to being a storage server
Google is your friend - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network-attached_storage
an external drive is just that - an external drive
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Dec 19, 2010 9:04 PM in response to Terence Devlinby odysseus,Would this work on a 3rd-generation Time Capsule (these units are much faster than the old ones -- mine does 40 MB/sec on reads)? But what happens if two people access the library at the same time? -
Dec 19, 2010 11:13 PM in response to odysseusby Terence Devlin,I'm not sure about the TC, frankly. However, will this be a wireless connection? A strong warning: If you're trying to edit the Library (that is, make albums, move photos around, keyword, make books or slideshows etc.) or edit individual photos in it via Wireless be very careful. Dropouts are a common fact of wireless networking, and should one occur while the app is writing to the database then your Library will be damaged. Simply, I would not do this with my Libraries.But what happens if two people access the library at the same time?
They won't be able to.
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Dec 30, 2010 4:29 AM in response to Terence Devlinby celtxian,Hi
I am trying to do this but after it copies about 1.6GB across it throws up a -22 error message. Both source and destination disks are Mac OS Extended (Journaled) drives and the library size is less than half he size available on the destination drive.
Not sure what the issue is as I have tried searching error code but not very helpful answers to the issue. Also, tried different naming conventions for backup library.
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Dec 30, 2010 5:20 AM in response to celtxianby Terence Devlin,Try rebuild the Library to the extnernal using iPhoto Library Manager. This will create a new library based on data in the albumdata.xml file. Not everything will be brought over - no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your albums and keywords back.
Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one.
Regards
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Dec 30, 2010 5:44 AM in response to Terence Devlinby celtxian,Terence
Many thanks for that. I will try it and let you know how things go. My current library sis over 40GB so I would like to free up space on my laptop.
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Jan 19, 2011 6:57 AM in response to LarryHNby Daniel Mccarter,Hi I am running iPhoto 09 and would like to move the library to my external drive which is backed up and also has my itunes library. My question is if I move it using the instructions here will I loose all my folders. I have 10,003 photos and probably 100 or more folders some folders within other folders.
I moved My iTunes library a year or so ago and ended up loosing all the folder structures I had built up over the years.
Thanks
Dan