iPhoto to Photos, Need help

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iPhoto to Photos, Need help

I have my iPhoto library on an external Raid 5 drive. Its about 500 Gigs. iPhoto is running very sluggish and I want to migrate it over to Photos.

I tried holding Option while opening and selecting the library on the external drive but I keep getting a "you don't have permission" error message. So I found this and tried it: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204484 I keep getting the same error message when I run the command lines in terminal.

Does anyone have any suggestions? If not does anyone know of a better Video/Photo library management software?

iMac, OS X El Capitan (10.11.2)

Posted on Dec 30, 2015 10:12 PM

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LarryHN

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Dec 30, 2015 10:27 PM in response to DarrenT

What format is the drive and how is it connected?

The iPhoto or Photos library must be on a local volume formatted Mac OS extended (journaled) connected by a fast wired connection like USB, FireWire or ThunderBolt that is not a TimeMachine backup volume

As to better - that is in the eye of the beholder - we use Photos because it meets out needs - if it does not meet your needs then you need to find a program that does

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DarrenT Author

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Dec 30, 2015 10:39 PM in response to LarryHN

HI Larry,

Its connected via firewire. The drive is formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled). I have the entire iPhoto library running on the external drive now with iPhoto using it.

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LarryHN

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Dec 30, 2015 11:23 PM in response to DarrenT

In the finder select the EHD and get info - at the bottom of the window is ignore ownership checked?

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DarrenT Author

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Dec 31, 2015 7:19 AM in response to LarryHN

I don't see a place fro "Ignore ownership" in the finder when I click "get info" on the EHD.

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DarrenT Author

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Dec 31, 2015 8:19 AM in response to LarryHN

I went into the sharing settings and made me the owner of the file. I then tried opening the iPhoto with "Options" held down, selected the EHD iPhoto library and it seems to be working now. Before it was stopping at 2% now its at 35%. I'll let you know if it still doesn't work. I think it was a simple setting issue on the sharing of the EHD. Thanks for the help!

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