iPhoto Library migration to windows server

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iPhoto Library migration to windows server

Hello!

I know this has been discussed but I was unable to find it again. 😟

Due to my massive amount of pictures, I have run out of space on my iMac's internal hard drive.

I would like to move my iPhoto library over to my Home Server which runs Windows Home Server (Go figure)

When I try to do such a thing it says invalid file format?

SO - 1) is iPhoto capable of doing this?

1a) If not, is Aperture capable?

1b) If Aperture is, how do I accomplish this?

Thank you in advance for any help in this matt

iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Aug 28, 2011 11:04 PM

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Answer 1

Yer_Man

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Aug 29, 2011 12:27 AM in response to Italianbarista

No.

Ergo No.

The iPhoto and Aperture libraries must live on a disk formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled). What you can do is run a Referenced Library, with the Masters stored on the server. For a variety of reasons you really, really don't want to use iPhoto in this configuration. It's pretty straightforward to do this with Aperture's Relocate Masters command - check out the help.

Regards

TD

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