Q: use iPhoto or Photos for books?
Hi. I have over a dozen iPhoto Libraries, one for each year. What I do is make albums and then make books for my trips or one book each year. I am behind in doing the books. Now with Photos app (and faster,etc), I wonder if I should migrate my iPhoto Library over to Photos and use Photos to make the albums and books? Is there an advantage in doing that? It would mean that I will end up with multiple Photos libraries, since it cannot allow me to combine more than one iPhoto Library into Photos.
I thought I would link the libraries, instead of importing the same thousands of photos into the new Photos libraries. So the main question is whether or not there's an advantage in migrating all my iPhoto libraries into Photos libraries, or just stick with iPhoto and make my books there. Thanks.
iMac, OS X El Capitan (10.11.3), 27", 12MB RAM, 256 SSD + 2TB HD
Posted on Apr 13, 2016 4:30 AM
I have one Pegasus 6T RAID drive I keep all my iPhoto libraries and iMovie projects.
A RAID is safer than no backup, but if the backplane of your RAID has a problem all internal disks can be unusable at once. Or a power surge could destroy all internal drives at once. I would always keep a copy of my important media drives on a second drive, that is stored in a second location.
Posted on Apr 13, 2016 11:06 PM