caromou

Q: Iphoto

Hi, i have a mac book air and i would like to move my iphoto library 9.6 on a external hard disc, i tried but now they are telling me that it's going to take 2 days!!! It's only 25GB is that normal? do they have a fastest way to do it? Thanks in advance for your help!

MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2012), iOS 8.2

Posted on Mar 12, 2015 7:27 AM

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  • by léonie,Solvedanswer

    léonie léonie Apr 12, 2015 8:41 AM in response to caromou
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    Apr 12, 2015 8:41 AM in response to caromou

    is your external drive directly connected and formatted correctly as MacOS X Extended (Journaled)?

    An iPhoto Library needs to be on directly mounted volume, see:   iPhoto: Sharing libraries among multiple users

     

    Usually the estimates for the time needed for copying a library are much too high.

    Wait and see.

  • by Old Toad,Helpful

    Old Toad Old Toad Apr 12, 2015 8:41 AM in response to caromou
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    Apr 12, 2015 8:41 AM in response to caromou

    Just emphasizing part of what léonie suggested:  make sure the EHD is formatted OS X Extended (journaled). 

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  • by caromou,

    caromou caromou Mar 12, 2015 8:42 AM in response to Old Toad
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    Mar 12, 2015 8:42 AM in response to Old Toad

    Thanks for your reply but im not getting it..

     

    It's a SD Card, it's directly connected. But i don't really understand the part of formatted :-/

    Do i have to format the card? and how?

    now the estimate time is 4 days and in 1h45 it only download 369MB!!

    Is that normal??

  • by Old Toad,

    Old Toad Old Toad Mar 12, 2015 9:55 AM in response to caromou
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    Mar 12, 2015 9:55 AM in response to caromou
    It's a SD Card

    That's why it's so slow.  You will never get adequate performance out of an iPhoto Library located on an SD card or any memory card.  The transfer rate is nowhere near that of a hard drive.

     

    That being said, you'd format it the same as you would an external hard drive.  Launch Disk Utility, select the card in the left pane and go from there.

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