The application keep prompting me to make more storage space in my macbook (it asks for 124 GB space) when my iPhoto library is lovated in an external Hard Disk. I don't understand why Photos insisting on moving the library to my macbook Hard Disk. Any answers will be most welcomed.
I'd think Apple would provide a smooth path of data migration from iPhotos to Photos.
iPad, iOS 5.0.1
This is the format of the external Hard Disk MS-DOS (FAT32).
That's the problem. The library must be on a disk formatted Mac OS Extended. Move it to a correctly formatted disk and you should have no problems.
This is the format of the external Hard Disk MS-DOS (FAT32).
That's the problem. The library must be on a disk formatted Mac OS Extended. Move it to a correctly formatted disk and you should have no problems.
I don't understand why Photos insisting on moving the library to my macbook Hard Disk. Any answers will be most welcomed.
Photos will create the new Photos library usually on the drive, where the original iPhoto library resides, provided, that the drive is compatible with Photos. Otherwise the new library will be created in your Pictures folder on the system drive.
Hi Leonie,
Thank you for the reply.
There's a ridiculously smooth path to migrate: Open the iPhoto Library with Photos. Done.
As for your query: details:
The application keep prompting me
Which Application? What exactly is the message you get?
What format is the external?
Have you tried making the library on the external?
Terence Devlin wrote:
There's a ridiculously smooth path to migrate: Open the iPhoto Library with Photos. Done.
As for your query: details:
The application keep prompting me
Which Application? What exactly is the message you get?
What format is the external?
Have you tried making the library on the external?
Hi Terence,
The Photos application. The message says: "There is not enough disk space to migrate your library. It is estimated that you need at least 124 GB of additional free space". FYI the iPhoto Library size in the external HD is 82.67 GB. The actual free space in my laptop HD is 172.55 GB.
This is the format of the external Hard Disk MS-DOS (FAT32).
if i move to formatted Mac OS Extended, what happened to my data? is it will erase my data on disk if i format it?
Reformatting a disk will erase it, so if you're going to reformat that disk then you'll need to copy the data off, reformat and copy it back.
Why is my old iphoto library can't be opened in Photos?
