My IPhoto library is too big and taking up too much space on my Mac. The assistant at the Apple store told me I could send the entire library to another hard drive, but still access it from my Mac from an icon or something like that. How do I do this

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My IPhoto library is too big and taking up too much space on my Mac. The assistant at the Apple store told me I could send the entire library to another hard drive, but still access it from my Mac from an icon or something like that. How do I do this

My IPhoto library is too big and taking up too much space on my Mac. The assistant at the Apple store told me I could send the entire library to another hard drive, but still access it from my Mac from an icon or something like that. How do I do this?

iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.2)

Posted on May 25, 2015 7:19 AM

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Yer_Man

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May 25, 2015 7:57 AM in response to LArlington

Make sure the drive is formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled)

1. Quit iPhoto

2. Copy the iPhoto Library from your Pictures Folder to the External Disk.

3. Hold down the option (or alt) key while launching iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library' and navigate to the new location. From that point on this will be the default location of your library.

4. Test the library and when you're sure all is well, trash the one on your internal HD to free up space.

Regards

TD

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