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Q: Do I need to get rid of iPhoto for storing/accessing photos on wifi network?

My wife is a food blogger and takes 1000s of pictures a week. Our iPhoto library is close to 400gbs. I just converted her MacBook to an SSD to improve performance and the plan is to just store the most recent month's photos on the MacBook and put the rest on an NAS. We previously tried a USB hard drive to do this and it was much too frustrating for 2 reasons. One, we back up everything via crashplan so it was a pain to always make sure it was plugged into her MB as she would carry it around from the office, living room, kitchen, etc. We also have 3 young boys so portable hard drives plugged into a laptop that is always at arms reach is a recipe for disaster. (Already had one ruined because of that) So we need some sort of wireless option. We understand it may be slower, but we won't access those files very often so it's not a huge deal. Everything I've read about various NASs (Synology, My Cloud, etc.) all say they don't work too well with IPhoto/Apeture. (Currently use iPhoto) So any recommendations on better options? I want something fairly simple for her. What about transitioning to Lightroom or non-Apple to allow easier remote storage and access? Anyone have any success with wireless remote storage/access of iPhoto?

 

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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Jan 13, 2014 7:49 AM

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Q: Do I need to get rid of iPhoto for storing/accessing photos on wifi network?

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  • by brandonb2222,

    brandonb2222 brandonb2222 Jan 14, 2014 2:10 PM in response to LarryHN
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    Jan 14, 2014 2:10 PM in response to LarryHN

    I don't think you've read my updated posts. What I am now asking is COMPLETELY different from the first post.

     

    I now just want to have an external hard drive the we plug INTO our MacBook that will house our photo libraries that are older than a month. We'll plug it in to either do a monthly transfer of the older pictures or if we want to access old photos. I would then unplug it from the laptop and plug it into the router so that it could remotely backup to Crashplan. (Issue is that Crashplan takes a long time with files that large so this allows my wife to not have to always have the hard drive plugged directly into her machine just for backup)

     

    All I asked was why couldn't you use AE to do this? And, would a router like Asus AC66U be a better option given it's better performance and more features.

  • by Terence Devlin,

    Terence Devlin Terence Devlin Jan 14, 2014 3:33 PM in response to brandonb2222
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    Jan 14, 2014 3:33 PM in response to brandonb2222

    The problem with Crashplan - and other online back up services - is the same as the problem with the NAS: Disk Format. None of these services use Mac OS Extended. If you copy a library there, there is only a small risk of damage, but once you update the Library with an incremental back up - which involves writing the the Library - the risk of damage and dataloss grows to the point of inevitablity.

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