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<blockquote data-quote="chas_m" data-source="post: 1100276"><p>Let me comment on this first. You *SERIOUSLY* need to do more to free up space on your computer like RIGHT NOW. Mac OS X needs room to work and "less than 1GB" isn't going to cut it -- I usually suggest keeping between 12-20GB free *at minimum* for smooth operation.</p><p></p><p>You are *seriously* risking a corrupted directory and data loss.</p><p></p><p>iPhoto and most other photo programs don't require that you leave the photo library on your boot drive, so that's the obvious first step you should take. It's very easy to do:</p><p></p><p>1. Copy (not move, COPY) the entire iPhoto Library package to the new drive.</p><p>2. Start up iPhoto holding down the Shift key. You'll be asked to pick a new library or create one. You want to pick the one on the new drive.</p><p>3. Once you're sure everything looks normal (all photos present, etc), you can THEN safely delete the old one. iPhoto will be default go to the new one until you create or change any new libraries.</p><p>4. If you accidentally start up iPhoto and the drive with the library is not mounted, it should simply give you the option to create or point to a different library.</p><p></p><p>PS. This basically works for iTunes as well, slightly differently but basically the same idea. Another way to "slough off" GB's of data.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Not by default it isn't. Photos imported into iPhoto go to precisely one place -- the iPhoto Library (which looks like a file but is actually a "package" or some might say "a vault"). If your photos were in another location and then imported into iPhoto, you can then delete the "originals."</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>No, again not true. What's probably confusing you is that iPhoto has its own trash (doesn't use the trashcan on the Dock). So when you delete a photo, the reference to it gets removed but it doesn't actually go away until you empty the IPHOTO trash (under the file menu).</p><p></p><p>This was done deliberately as a safety feature, since way too many people dump stuff first and regret it later.</p><p> </p><p>I agree with others -- once you get past 20,000 photos or so, iPhoto just doesn't cut it as a management app, nice though it is. You need to move on to something better that can handle large libraries. There are several good programs for this out there, and the good news is that there will soon be another one: ACDSee Pro for Mac is coming (currently in Public Beta, see my sig for details). Take a look around, all the programs used for this sort of stuff have free trials or demos, see which one works best for you.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chas_m, post: 1100276"] Let me comment on this first. You *SERIOUSLY* need to do more to free up space on your computer like RIGHT NOW. Mac OS X needs room to work and "less than 1GB" isn't going to cut it -- I usually suggest keeping between 12-20GB free *at minimum* for smooth operation. You are *seriously* risking a corrupted directory and data loss. iPhoto and most other photo programs don't require that you leave the photo library on your boot drive, so that's the obvious first step you should take. It's very easy to do: 1. Copy (not move, COPY) the entire iPhoto Library package to the new drive. 2. Start up iPhoto holding down the Shift key. You'll be asked to pick a new library or create one. You want to pick the one on the new drive. 3. Once you're sure everything looks normal (all photos present, etc), you can THEN safely delete the old one. iPhoto will be default go to the new one until you create or change any new libraries. 4. If you accidentally start up iPhoto and the drive with the library is not mounted, it should simply give you the option to create or point to a different library. PS. This basically works for iTunes as well, slightly differently but basically the same idea. Another way to "slough off" GB's of data. Not by default it isn't. Photos imported into iPhoto go to precisely one place -- the iPhoto Library (which looks like a file but is actually a "package" or some might say "a vault"). If your photos were in another location and then imported into iPhoto, you can then delete the "originals." No, again not true. What's probably confusing you is that iPhoto has its own trash (doesn't use the trashcan on the Dock). So when you delete a photo, the reference to it gets removed but it doesn't actually go away until you empty the IPHOTO trash (under the file menu). This was done deliberately as a safety feature, since way too many people dump stuff first and regret it later. I agree with others -- once you get past 20,000 photos or so, iPhoto just doesn't cut it as a management app, nice though it is. You need to move on to something better that can handle large libraries. There are several good programs for this out there, and the good news is that there will soon be another one: ACDSee Pro for Mac is coming (currently in Public Beta, see my sig for details). Take a look around, all the programs used for this sort of stuff have free trials or demos, see which one works best for you. [/QUOTE]
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