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I shared disk space and my iPhoto library as described in this article. When creating the disk image, I thought I had set aside enough space to allow for growth (50G). I'm running out of space. What's the best way to increase the disk image size?

I shared disk space and my iPhoto library as described in this article. When creating the disk image, I thought I had set aside enough space to allow for growth (50G). I'm running out of space. What's the best way to increase the disk image size?

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Aug 17, 2012 6:42 AM

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Aug 17, 2012 7:04 AM in response to Allan Eckert

My sincerest appologies for the neophyte nomenclature. According to Get Info on the drive, the Disk Image is: /Users/Shared/iPhoto Library.sparseimage. Given the General field name ("Disk image") and the file extension (".sparseimage"), the terminology is a little confusing. Is what I have a Disk Image or a sparse image?

Aug 17, 2012 7:59 AM in response to Allan Eckert

Done. Thank you, Allan.


The sparse image article you sent a link to needs a little updating (or there's some variability in prompts (no password was required) with my OS and/or Disk Utility version), but it worked.


Phew! It would have been much more time consuming to use Time Machine to recover all my photos after repartitioning the drive.

I shared disk space and my iPhoto library as described in this article. When creating the disk image, I thought I had set aside enough space to allow for growth (50G). I'm running out of space. What's the best way to increase the disk image size?

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