Using iphoto from external hard drive, need an easy way to use iphoto manager ?

Sorry but your query is not clear.

The location of the LIbrary doesn't affect the operation of Library Manager at all.

What format is the external disk?

What are you trying to do?

The photos are on my external HD (i've formatted to journaled)

Do you mean there's an iPhoto LIbrary on your EHD with your photos? Then launch iPLM and click on the Add Library buttuo at the top:

Navigate to the EHD and select the library there.

OT

Hi Terrance.

I see you have responded to a few of these queries. I am hoping you can help me. I copied my iphoto library to an external drive then trashed the iphoto library on the internal drive and emptied trash. The library is gone in finder but hasn't been removed from disk space. I can't rebuild the library as it doesn't exist. The library on the external is working fine but I'm down to a gig on my internal (my external is my Time machine backup too and is nearly full with only a current backup and one older one and the iphoto folder - obviously 750gig not enough for a 300gig internal).

So I have no trace of the deleted internal library but can't recover the space on the internal disk!!!!

Can you help please???

That's not really an iPhoto question, more one about the Finder.

but I'm down to a gig on my internal

Do you mean you only have one gig of free space on your internal drive?

Try use an app like GrandPerspective

http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net

to see what's using up your disk space.

Next:

Having a time machine back up and your iPhoto library on one disk is the same as not having any back up at all. If the disk goes down you lose everything. You need a second disk.

Thanks for that, I tried grandperspective and comes out with a 300gig part as sparsebundle and then a lot of very small separate files. I think the iphoto library is hidden in this sparsebundle.

I know I will have to get another external, was just wanting to get rid of the iphoto library so I could free up space on the Macbook but haven't achieved this. I will try and find a Finder Guru but if you have any other ideas I'll be grateful.

Cheers

Steven

Hi Terrance,

I couldn't find anything else on this subject. Before bed I opened Disk Utility and verified disk - didn't find anything. Then verified disk permissions - didn't come up with anything so clicked repair disk permissions and let it go while I went to bed.

Opened computer tonight and now the appropriate space is showing on the internal drive. So maybe these processes helped? I have no idea but it might be something you understand and can help the next person with.

Cheers

Steven