I'd get an external FW or USB drive...

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After you copied the iPhoto Library.photolibrary Folder/Package to the NAS did you first Delete the original in your Pictures folder before you opened iphoto? If you didn't and then opened iPhoto it may of auto imported the copied images found on the NAS into your original iphoto library making dups of everything.

Are these images still in iPhoto?

What I found out the hard way was that by moving the photos out of IPhoto,

1 - your iPhoto library can not be used on a NAS - it must be on a volume formatted Mac OS extended (journaled) - so far as I know no NAS uses that format

2 - it is possibel to have a properly formatted disk image on an NAS

3 - Your best solution is to restore your backup from before you moved to the NAS and use iPhoto with the iPhoto library on your main drive or a properly formatted external drive

LN

I don't see why it wouldn't work from a NAS. If the Mac can read and write files on the NAS the iPhoto library can be on it.

Your choice

It is not working for you

It is documented that the iPhoto library will not work properly unless it is on a volume formatted Mac OS extended (jopurnaled)  You do what you please - but it is pretty amazing that you whave a problem and request help because you do n]=have the knoledge to resolve the problem - Yet when you get the percise answer you choose to argue

Have a great week - enjoy your corrupted iPhoto library

LN

I was not asking for help, I am not the OP. I was testing your statement that the iphoto library should be on a Mac Extended formatted drive.

If OS X can read and writer to a drive, whether internal, externally connected to the Mac or networked as a NAS or another computer on then LAN, then it should be able to read and write to the iphoto library placed on that drive.

Please reference the documentation that states the iphoto library will only work properly on a Mac Extended (Journaled) formatted drive.

I'd love to read it.

Personally I don't use iphoto.

LarryHN wrote:

 

 

I don't see why it wouldn't work from a NAS. If the Mac can read and write files on the NAS the iPhoto library can be on it.

 

Your choice

 

It is not working for you

 

It is documented that the iPhoto library will not work properly unless it is on a volume formatted Mac OS extended (jopurnaled)  You do what you please - but it is pretty amazing that you whave a problem and request help because you do n]=have the knoledge to resolve the problem - Yet when you get the percise answer you choose to argue

 

Have a great week - enjoy your corrupted iPhoto library

 

LN

From everything I read there doesn't seem to be a problem with placing the iphoto library on a networked drive whether another computer, Mac or PC, or a NAS.

In some of my reading some have suggested to place it on a Mac formatted drive but I can find any hard rule or restriction. If iphoto can't properly deal with a networked drive formatted in some other format that every Mac can access, read and write file to, then that is a problem with iphoto.

Ok - it is a problem with iPhoto - and with Time Machine too for tha tmatter

So what - if you do not have the iPhoto library on a volume formatted Mac OS extended (journaled) you will have problems sooner or later

This is not a place to ramble about what should be - it is simply a place for experiances iPhoto users to assist inexperianced iPhoto users in using iPhoto the way it it - not as it should be - not as it might be - not as it will be some day - very simply how to use it today the way it is

And today that requires that your iPhoto library be on a volume formatted Mac OS extended (journaled)

That all - and that is how it is

From everything I read there doesn't seem to be a problem with placing the iphoto library on a networked drive whether another computer, Mac or PC, or a NAS.

No idea what you are reading but it is bogus and you really should start reading different things - that is not the case

LN

Personally I don't use iphoto.

Then you should not be giving advice on it should you - one of the rules in the TOU is to test your suggestions prior to posting them and since you do not use iPhoto then obviously you ahve not and can not do this

LN

I did test and am still testing. So far I have no problems with the iphoto library on a Windows 7 NTFS formatted drive accessed across my GB LAN.

I've imported, deleted, edited, opened, closed iphoto numerous times with no ill effects.

So I am following the TOU.

Please post a link to the Apple documentation that states the iphoto library must be on a HFS formatted drive.

Simply there is any. I've looked.

Thanks but it seems you are not following those same rules you like to trot out. You are stating it must be on a Mac extended formatted drive and there is no reference to that on the Apple support site. So where do you get your information from? Is it personal experience? If not then that is against the TOU as you have not tested what you are stating.

Thank you.

Aperture: Use locally mounted Mac OS X Extended volumes for your Aperture library

And while that is for Aperture as iPhoto and Aperture now share the same library structure (and library) it is safe to assume it applies to iPhoto also.

With Aperture we get a lot of the same responses. Some users do it and never have problems, some do and have problems after a while, some never getting it working. 

Of Of course  this specific tech note will only applies to newer versions of iPhoto, since the libraries have been combined into one.

That is for local, attached to a Mac, drive. Yes if you are using an external drive connected to your Mac for this purpose it should always be formatted in the Mac format.

It still does not address a Network drive.

If there is a problem it lies with the way iphoto or aperture works or with the OS X in general.

Adobe Lightroom does not have this problem even installed on a Mac and accessing a lightroom library from a network location.

I'm still testing and have just updated iphoto to the newest version. When opening iphoto it update the library on the Win 7 PC and then opened it without a problem.

Also, it is strongly recommended that the Aperture library be stored on a locally mounted hard drive. Storing the Aperture library on a network share can also lead to poor performance, data corruption, or data loss.

That is the last paragraph from the tech note. You need to read all the way through it.

And of course the title is Use locally mounted volumes

We are not talking about aperture and that article was written 3 years ago. I did read it, all the way, and it never references iphoto.