I am running out of space on my Macbook and would like to move all my photos and videos to an external hard drive to free up disk space. How do I designate those drives as the destination drive when running the application (iPhoto, iMovie) on the Macbook.
MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Moving your iTunes Music folder http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1449
Moving your iPhoto library http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1229
Moving iMovie footage to another drive http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1026
All these links were useful. Thank you. Now I have run into the problem of the original source files on the Mac. After copying the event source media to the external (it copied, but not moved) hard drive and moved the project media to the hard drive I trashed it (did not delete yet). Then I opened iMovie, found the project on the external drive, but it would not play. It said that the source media was missing. i would like to delet the trash to make room on my Mac.
reychido wrote:
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After copying the event source media to the external (it copied, but not moved) hard drive
Yes, that's the normal procedure when dragging to a different disk/partition. That actually copies the data, whereas a "move" on the same disk just changes the indexes. Among other things, it prevents data loss if something goes wrong with the copying.
Then I opened iMovie, found the project on the external drive, but it would not play. It said that the source media was missing.
Ah, I see the link I gave you was for iMovie '08. 😟
Try this one, for iMovie '11: http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2289
how do I keep photos and videos on an external hard drive and run the application on the macbook
