adding a external hard drive to Time capsule

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adding a external hard drive to Time capsule

onwards from original question ( if i hard wire an external hard drive to my time capsule to store my itunes and iphotos libaries in acting like a NAS drive )

you ask for reasons behind this idea

as all computers can fail mother boards hard drive ect to have acopy of my cherished photos and music collection that i can listen to look at on anther machine thats connected to my network sounds a good idea to me

ive had a mother board quit on me and lost a lot of memories and years on with lots more memoirs dont wont to loss any again i know that i can store a copy of the afor mentioned libaries onto External hard drive ,Flash Drives ect but the idea of keeping them in place and allowing access through my personal network apeals to me

iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)

Posted on Apr 20, 2014 6:30 AM

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LarryHN

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Apr 20, 2014 9:57 AM in response to Lancehire

How are you connnected to th eTime Capsule and how do you plan to use the drive there?

It is not an appropriate place for your operating iPhoto library - it is for an additional backup

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Old Toad

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Apr 20, 2014 10:01 AM in response to Lancehire

It's not recommended to run an library from a network NAS drive. The following is from this Apple doucment: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS5168

Additionally, storing the iPhoto library on a network rather than locally on your computer can also lead to poor performance or data loss

However, if you're going to get a second EHD just connect it directly to your iMac. That's the recommended method. Just be sure it's formatted OS X Extended (journaled).

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Lancehire Author

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Apr 20, 2014 10:50 AM in response to LarryHN

Thank you for your input the Time Capsule is conected to the Network giving a better wifi conection to my iPad And Mac Air (dont have to sit at the desk all day)

and is primarly used as a Time Machine Back up

i use a seagate goflex freeagent 500gb to back up my business files only

and now i have a spare Hiatachi 1TB hard drive that i wish to store my iphotos and my itunes

reading most of the discussions i have opened itunes home sharing this alows me to make space on the ipad Thank you

i will now back up the iphoto libary on the spare hard drive as every one suggests

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