Apple Event: May 7th at 7 am PT
My mac is almost full. And iPhoto is the culprit. I want to move my iphoto's library to an external hard drive and thus eliviate my macs. The drive that will lodge iphotos labrary will be connected to my mac via firewire.
Thanks in advance for your wisdom.
evf
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
No exporting - just move teh library -
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
LN
Yes you can use your external as you prefer. You only need it connected when you want to use it.
and it will not let me eject it from the computer, stating it's still in use!
Not an iPhoto question. I'd ask that on the Using Mac OS X forum for 10.6
Reboot and try to eject the EHD again.
OT
How to export iPhoto library to an external hard drive?
