Upgrading to Yosemite, questions about iPhoto and content.
I had to re-format the Seagate External Portable Hard drive as exFAT - I was advised, from another source, that this would make the file content (that I plan to keep on the Seagate drive) - mostly photos - JEPGs, & PSDs - readable on any other computer or version of Mac OS. The result was that there were nearly 3,000 unnecessary bits of files and debris left over from the Seagate unit on my iMac v.10.8.5 - Every single thing was nothing that I needed. Got it straightened out, … eventually - ugh. (My iMac is fine - plenty of memory/storage and great all round.) And now the external portable drive works fine and actually seems to be a pretty durable little unit with a huge capacity. Got a few more tests to run on it just to make sure - but so far it seems good with the new format. Used Utilities to erase it and then re-format it.
I am still running iPhoto. Plan to upgrade to Yosemite in a few months but am working on making sure I have all my photo images and processed images backed up - including creating a Master file - which I have saved in so many places, now that if I lose anything it is because I have so many backup places that I can't remember them!
Do you have any advice that I should prepare for before I get to the upgrade - cannot lose my photos. Right now, I am setting up Adobe Lightroom to work with my image files. That is a real challenge. I thought the Seagate would help smooth that out if I ran LR off that unit and kept a Master file of the images as the "go to" - for the image files it needs to reference. Not.
The application is fabulous but the way LR "sees" images on my computer is completely "blind". The image file is right there - and LR gives the error that it cannot find the image - so I have to show it where the image is: that is okay for one image - but I am not a hobbyist - cannot do that for 1,000s of images - every single time! There has to be a better way!
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