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Apr 20, 2015 10:17 AM in response to Old Toadby LarryHN,Not to mention that when the TC fails (and all drive will) they have no backup of their photos
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Apr 27, 2015 4:01 PM in response to Csound1by erickc,I apologize for the delayed response... However, I needed to purchase an additional hard drive.. not only as a backup to my backup... but to be able to transfer my large library to a properly formatted HD. I've read online that some people use the exFAT format in the event they wish to use a PC and MAC. Will this be an issue for iPhoto? Would there be any future instance where this is risky? Again, I was using MS DOSfat32 on my initial HD.
The other questions is... should I wait to transfer my iPhoto library to the new photos program? Surely the new photos program is more stable than iPhoto.
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Apr 28, 2015 9:36 PM in response to Old Toadby rmlindner,Thanks for that advice, I'll definitely look into a second drive. Right now though the drive is showing 2TB free space and 1 TB used. So I have plenty of space at this time. My iPhoto library I am trying to convert to Photos is 533 GB and has about 41,000 photos in it. So, I expect it to take a while but the last time I tried converting it I let it run for 36 hours and it just stayed stuck at about 8% complete. I can still access the iPhoto library just fine with the iPhoto application and have reverted back to that for now until I can find some solution.
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Apr 29, 2015 8:30 AM in response to rmlindnerby Old Toad,I you have iPhoto 9.6.1 or can download it from then App Store I suggest you do the following before converting the library to Photos.
1 - launch iPhoto with the Option+Command keys held down and run the following First Aid routines:
a. Option #1, Repair Library Permissions
b. Option #2, Rebuild Thumbnails
c. Option #4, Rebuild Database
This will "clean" up the library to help insure a good conversion. It might take a while to do those three routines but a clean conversion will make things go much better later on.
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May 13, 2015 9:03 PM in response to erickcby rmlindner,I did all these steps and then tried the conversion to Photos again and it became non-responsive again at 11%. I let it sit at 11% for 24 hours to see if it made any change. Nothing. Your tips did however help iPhoto run a bit quicker.
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May 14, 2015 8:44 AM in response to erickcby Old Toad,D. I've read online that some people use the exFAT format in the event they wish to use a PC and MAC. Will this be an issue for iPhoto? Would there be any future instance where this is risky?
Yes, absolutely. iPhoto can't exist on such a formatted volume and Photos checks the volume for correct formatting and won't even go there.
You must have a volume formatted OS X Extended (journaled) in order to use iPhoto or Photos.
Photos is lacking many of the features of iPhoto so unless you have a pressing need to migrate to Photos I'd stay with iPhoto. You can create a test library with Photos and experiment with it to learn it's pluses and minuses.
Here are two user tips that should be of help to you:
Photos 2.0 vs iPhoto 9.6.1: Features and Capabilities
Can't Update iPhoto because it is not available in the App Store
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Aug 29, 2015 8:44 AM in response to Old Toadby rmlindner,Old Toad... Have you heard of any solution to the large library conversion issues? Sticking with iPhoto for now and have transferred all my photos to Google Photos without issue. Any info would be appreciated.
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Aug 29, 2015 8:48 AM in response to rmlindnerby Old Toad,All I can suggest is to run the First Aid procedures on an iPhoto library prior to migrating it to a Photos library. You know the old saying: garbage in - garbage out and if there are any problems however minor with an iPhoto library they could affect the successful migration.