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So, I got my 2.5 inch 2 TB external hard drive and put all my archive in there. The more important stuff are also in another internal drive which I connect to computers by a disk case.
That means all my videos, music and photos are in this new hdd.
To reach the full potential and use apps like iPhoto and iTunes with my content, I'm considering to add them to their libraries.
But I wonder what they do when I add them to the libraries. For instance, if I add my photos to iPhoto archives, does the app copy them? Or just writes their info to a database?
And what happens when I try to access to my photos when the disk is not connected? Does the app remove it because it couldn't access it?
If it just copies them to a folder on my Mac's SSD, it would be meaningless, because I have 50 GB free and my photos are 13 GB and music is 50 GB. That renders having an external drive useless.
Also, I am considering using the same drive for Time Machine backups. I will try to have a 250 GB partition on it dedicated to the backups. And I'll format it Mac file system (whatever the name is). Is this good?
That means all my videos, music and photos are in this new hdd.
To reach the full potential and use apps like iPhoto and iTunes with my content, I'm considering to add them to their libraries.
But I wonder what they do when I add them to the libraries. For instance, if I add my photos to iPhoto archives, does the app copy them? Or just writes their info to a database?
And what happens when I try to access to my photos when the disk is not connected? Does the app remove it because it couldn't access it?
If it just copies them to a folder on my Mac's SSD, it would be meaningless, because I have 50 GB free and my photos are 13 GB and music is 50 GB. That renders having an external drive useless.
Also, I am considering using the same drive for Time Machine backups. I will try to have a 250 GB partition on it dedicated to the backups. And I'll format it Mac file system (whatever the name is). Is this good?