Sam Huxtable

Q: what is the best way to back up iPhoto and create disc space

what is the best way to back up iPhoto and then remove the iphoto folder from the mac book and onto the external apple time capsule

Posted on May 16, 2014 9:39 PM

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  • by LarryHN,

    LarryHN LarryHN May 16, 2014 10:18 PM in response to Sam Huxtable
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    May 16, 2014 10:18 PM in response to Sam Huxtable

    Two different questions

     

    the best qway to backup is to use TimeMachine or other automatic backjup program

     

    However this does not allow you to reduce space since a backup need to be a copy of your existing library and as soond as you changge the library you no longer have a backup and sooner or later the photos will be gone form the bakcujp too

     

    You need to run the iPhoto library on an external drive or had a complete library on and external drive and a smaller library on yoru internal drive using iPhoto Library Manager - http://www.fatcatsoftware.com/iplm/ -  to move photos between the two libraries

     

    Moving the iPhoto library is safe and simple - quit iPhoto and drag the iPhoto library intact as a single entity to the external drive - depress the option key and launch iPhoto using the "select library" option to point to the new location on the external drive - fully test it and then trash the old library on the internal drive (test one more time prior to emptying the trash)

     

     

    And be sure that the External drive is formatted Mac OS extended (journaled) (iPhoto does not work with drives with other formats) and that it is always available prior to launching iPhoto

     

     

    And backup soon and often - having your iPhoto library on an external drive is not a backup and if you are using Time Machine you need to check and be sure that TM is backing up your external drive

     

     

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  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie May 16, 2014 10:27 PM in response to Sam Huxtable
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    May 16, 2014 10:27 PM in response to Sam Huxtable

    remove the iphoto folder from the mac book and onto the external apple time capsule

    Is your main purpose to use your iPhoto library on a network volume? Perhaps for sharing from several computers? This is not recommended. First of all, photo editing will be terribly slow, and secondly, network access can corupt your library. Neither iPhoto nor Aperture do support network databases, see: Use locally mounted Mac OS X Extended volumes for your Aperture library

     

    if you want to access a library on more than one computer, use a "sneaker" drive as LaaryHN described above and enable the option "ignore ownership on this volume". The procedure is described here: See

    iPhoto: Sharing libraries among multiple users