Watching Photos in Front Row from an external drive?

I have not tried this with photos yet but I can access my movies this way. I placed an alias to the external files inside of my movies folder. This folder does show up in FrontRow and works with no problems. Try that - like I said it works for movies, so why not photos?

If the files are in your iPhoto library, you should be able to view them in Front Row. Just be sure to uncheck "Copy files to iPhoto Library folder when adding to library" in iPhoto's preferences (iPhoto > Preferences > Advanced) or else everything you import in iPhoto will be copied to your pictures folder.

Front Row will ONLY look for pictures in your iPhoto library. If your iPhoto library is on a different drive, then it will look there for your photos.

Are your pictures in iPhoto?

The issue is the same with your Music, Front Row will ONLY look for music in your iTunes library. The movies are different. Because there's no one application organizing your movies the same way iPhoto organizes your pictures and iTunes organizes your music, Front Row just looks in the "Movies" folder for files. If it finds an alias/shortcut to another drive, it also looks in there. (Your iTunes videos are also listed in Front Row because it's smart enough to not list them under "Music".)

So, in the simplest terms, yes, Front Row can display pictures that are on a different drive as long as that drive holds your iPhoto library. However, Front Row cannot mix and match pictures located in more than one iPhoto library and/or more than one single location.

-Doug

It should be as simple as dragging your "iPhoto Library" folder from your Pictures folder to a new location and then holding down the "option" key when starting iPhoto and telling it the new location. But, this might be a topic that would be better covered by folks in the iPhoto forums.

-Doug

i've moved my library to an ext. fw hdd. unfortunately it's SOOOOOOOOOOOO slow, because everytime i enter the photo arena or a photo album in front row it seems to scan and/or read in the whole iphoto library. iphoto itself doesn't have any problems when accessing my pics. i've rebuilt the whole indices with no success at all.

furthermore no preview images show up in frontrow. just when i check "import images in iPhoto lib", preview images are shown in frontrow.

anybody similar problems?
any hints?

jo

I would suggest you start a new topic of your own. Be sure to include some more details, like the version of iPhoto you have. Is your profile correct? Are you really still using Mac OS X 10.4.6? It's possible some software updates could help your issue.

-Doug