I have a MacBook Pro with a large number of pictures that I want to move to an external drive in order to free up the space on my internal hard drive.
End State: I want to store and access all of my photos on my external hard drive.
Question 1: How can I do this?
Question 2: Does this make sense? Is there a better option?
Thanks fro any assistance
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.0.x)
Google "How to move iPhoto Library to an external drive". You will get pages and pages of links on exactly how to do that.
Or post this question in the iPhoto forum.
I will request that your query be relocated to the iPhoto forum where knowledgeable iPhoto users will be able to assist you.
Ciao.
make sure the external drive is formatted Mac OS extended (journaled) - then drage the iPhoto library intact as a single entity to it, depress and hold the option key, launch iPhoto and use the resulting select library to point to the new location - fully test it and then delete the one on your internal drive, test one more time to be sure and then empty the trash
LN
Larry - Thanks for the help and support!
You are welcome
LN
Hi Larry
I have the same issue and have followed the instructions listed - however when i select "choose library" it used opens iphoto with no opition to move/drag it to the hard drive?
I guess i am doing something wrong.
thanks
Andrew
You live the Library first, then select choose library:
Make sure the drive is formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
1. Quit iPhoto
2. Copy the iPhoto Library from your Pictures Folder to the External Disk.
3. Hold down the option (or alt) key while launching iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library' and navigate to the new location. From that point on this will be the default location of your library.
4. Test the library and when you're sure all is well, trash the one on your internal HD to free up space.
Regards
TD
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