iPhoto alias for iMovie
How come i can't make an alias for iphoto from an external hard drive and use it to run iMovie from the local HD?
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4), 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7; 8 GB DDR3
How come i can't make an alias for iphoto from an external hard drive and use it to run iMovie from the local HD?
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4), 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7; 8 GB DDR3
Why would an iPhoto alias "run" iMovie? If that seems like I have no idea what you are talking about, you're right.
What is it you want to do? Not what you are trying to do, but what you want to accomplish.
Sorry that was worded badly. Its not difficult. iMovie in synced with iPhoto to retrieve video and picture files to be used in projects. I want to run my iPhoto from an external HD (save space on my internal SSD) so i move it, and therefore leave a "dead" space in my old directory (if you will) in which case iMovie is lost trying to find a deleted library. SO...i make an alias in the "dead" space so that iMovie can find a link to where the actual library is stored (my external HD)
Seems brilliant. Doesn't work. Is there a way that i DON'T need my iPhoto library ON my INTERNAL HD and still use my iPhoto library in iMovie?
Hope that clears it up. 🙂
My best guess would be to delete the com.apple.iapps.plist and com.apple.iphoto.plist files from your user/Library/Preferences folder. Maybe iMovie's also.
Once you delete them, open iPhoto while holding down the option key. Tell it where your iPhoto Library now resides.
You'll have to reset all the individual app settings. You might just move them to the Desktop so you can restore them if it doesn't work.
Edit: Looking deeper at the iApps plist, it stores all the lcoations for each database, so you may have to update all of them, iTunes, iMovie, PhotoBooth.
Sorry to say...Been there. Done that.
I'm running out of options REAL fast. I know im not the only one with this problem and i havent been able to find a proper answer anywhere on this forum or online anywhere i have looked.
This seems like a very reasonable option for someone that needs space on their internal HD that iMovie should have no problem with. Certainly should not be this much of a hassel to a respectably avid mac user..
Two suggestions. If you have successfully linked iPhoto to the new location, in iMovie, click on the camera to see iPhoto and try to access the files from there.
Or you can try importing the files using iMovie/File/Import. From iMovie help.
Import video from movie files
You can import movie files into iMovie that are stored on your computer or a connected hard disk. These movie files can be in a number of formats, including MPEG-4 and standard (DV) file formats and some .mov file formats.
iMovie imports AVCHD video files directly from the camcorder only. See the topics in this section about importing video from the type of camcorder you use.
HideTo import video from a movie file:
iPhoto alias for iMovie