Digital camera eliminates all film related costs, but come with a storage cost. Even I’ve paid for an unlimited storage on the cloud at US$25 a year, but I want to keep some of them on my tiny 160GB hard drive, on iPhoto, and iPhoto’s library has invaded my hard drive space from time to time. It was 5GB left on my hard drive last time, therefore it’s time to move those photos, which is less frequent access, out of my computer to somewhere external.
“One click to rule them all” button helps me.
1. Quit iPhoto
2. Copy the iPhoto Library as an entity from your Pictures Folder to the External Disk.
3. Hold down the option (or alt) key while launching iPhoto. From the resulting menu select ‘Choose Library’ and navigate to the new location. From that point on this will be the default location of your library.
4. Test the library and when you’re sure all is well, trash the one on your internal HD to free up space.
I’m wondering at the time of cloud storage is getting popular. Why do I need a physical storage? And how about other people?
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Moving photo library in windows 7 is somewhat easy like this.
Privacy issues seem to be the reason why I leave some of my photos off the cloud. We can’t make sure that photo is deleted when we issue delete command to the cloud. And when google reach it, no one cannot delete it any more.
oops. Correction from “And when google reach it, no one cannot delete it any more.” to “And when google reach it, no one can delete it any more.”
I did it a year or 2 ago, with iPhoto and iTunes but my eieerxpnce was that the start-up time is extreme long. And the programs become slow, so that is the reason why I don’t use this.
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same prob as mine! at about the same time.