how do i put a iPhoto Library on a Iomega Cloud home media hard drive

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Open Finder, go to your Pictures folder and copy the iPhoto library to your external disk. If you want to open the library from the external disk, open iPhoto holding Option key and select the library on your external disk

Is this a local physical hard drive that is connected to your Mac by a wired connection? Is it formatted Mac OS extended (journaled)

If the answer to both questions is yes 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

In looking through their web site I see no indication that it will work with iPhoto and many that imply it will not - I believe that placing your iPhoto library on it will endanger your photos

LN

Open Finder, go to your Pictures folder and copy the iPhoto library to your external disk. If you want to open the library from the external disk, open iPhoto holding Option key and select the library on your external disk

This will not work if the External hard drive is not formatted Mac OS extended (journaled) and is strongly not recommended if it is not connected by a wired connection

LN

Simply, you don't.

That device is a NAS, or Network Attached Storage. iPhoto needs to sit on a disk formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and that NAS will not be so formatted.

Workaround: Put it on a Disk Image formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and store that on the NAS

Regards

TD

Hi Larry,

I am not sure if you have addressed this issue in one of your many posts, but I am a Luddite havong trouble with transfering some pics from another Mac iphoto library, stored on an Iomega drive, to the Mac I am currently using.

The pics were put on the Iomega drive by drag and drop along with the entire ipoto library from that computer.

The original pics were very high resolution, but many folders of pics appear much smaller and much lower quality rthan the originals, both when viewed from the IOmega drive, and ater they were trsafered to the mac I am currently using (from the Iomega drive).

It would be great to have access to all the pics n their original form... do you have any advice on what to do?

thanks so much...

Sounds like you imported the Library from the Drive.

Never import one Library to another. Every version and thumbnail is imported like a distinct photo, you lose all your Albums, Keywords etc., the link between Original and Previews is destroyed, the non-destructive editing feature is ruined and so on. In summary: it's mess.

To move a library just drag it to the new location. There's no importing involved.