AppleTV Streaming while keeping Photos on AppleTV Hard Drive
I am a new Apple user. Just purchased an AppleTV and an MAC Mini. What I want to do is my most popular photos on the ATV for quick access when I have friends over, but at the same time I want to stream from my mini for other photos without lossing what is on the ATV. Right now it seems to be one or the other. Any help will be great and detailed instructions even better.
AppleTV can connect to more than one iTunes library.
So if you had a MacMini, a laptop and a Windows desktop they could all stream data to AppleTV from iTunes.
However, only one of the connections can sync with AppleTV. This special 'sync' library fills AppleTV with copies of music/video/photos either automatically or as you specify in the AppleTV Device tabs in iTunes. These synced files appear under My Music/Movies etc in teh menus.
To confuse issues, the sync library will also make any material that won't fit on AppleTV available to it by streaming - except for photos. So when iTunes is open your My Music lists anything synced to AppleTV plus (if you had too much music to fit on it) anything else in iTunes. The extra stuff appears transparently in the menus. Unfortunately I don't think you can stream photos - but you can make photos sync first which might be useful if you had too much overall to fit on AppleTV - you sync all the photos, then can stream anything else.
Alternatively with itunes on another computer you could set up a new link under AppleTV's Settings>Computers (NOT the top entry which is the sync library). These 'shared' streaming only libraries then appear as My Shared Music etc in the menus.
Hope that makes sense.
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That's the way.
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A Referenced Library is when iPhoto is NOT copying the files into the iPhoto Library when importing. The files are then stored where ever you put them and not in the Library package. In this scenario you are responsible for the File Management.
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1. You are responsible for file management. That's more work:
You must first move the files from your camera to the storage location before importing.
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Thereafter, you cannot move the files on early versions of iPhoto at all, on iPhoto 08 and later you may move them on the same Volume or Disk. If you move them to a new volume or disk the aliases my break. If they are on an different volume and you move them the aliases will break.
You cannot rename the files.
Migrating: moving to a new machine, moving the files to another disk are all a lot more complex.
2. You gain no extra functionality from running a Referenced Library. Nothing. This is just storage. You still manage the files via iPhoto. You edit them with iPhoto or via iPhoto's External Editor setting, otherwise you're changes will not be available in iPhoto. You don't save byte of storage space.
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You're worried about accessing the files?
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(Note the above illustration is not a Finder Window. It's the dialogue you get when you go File -> Open)
You can access the Library from the New Message Window in Mail:
There's a similar option in Outlook and many, many other apps. If you use Apple's Mail, Entourage, AOL or Eudora you can email from within iPhoto.
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For users of 10.6 and later: You can download a free Services component from MacOSXAutomation which will give you access to the iPhoto Library from your Services Menu.
Using the Services Preference Pane you can even create a keyboard shortcut for it.
For Users of 10.4 and 10.5 Create a Media Browser using Automator (takes about 10 seconds) or use this free utility Karelia iMedia Browser
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File -> Export: Select the files in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Export. The dialogue will give you various options, including altering the format, naming the files and changing the size. Again, producing a copy.
Show File: a. On iPhoto 09 and earlier: Right- (or Control-) Click on a pic and in the resulting dialogue choose 'Show File'. A Finder window will pop open with the file already selected. 3.b.
b: On iPhoto 11 and later: Select one of the affected photos in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Reveal in Finder -> Original. A Finder window will pop open with the file already selected. -
Hello,
I am trying to move photos from my hard drive to my mac. Mac is using an updated version of Iphoto and is denying the transfer.
How do I get around this? Do I download the order version? or can I not get my photos? If anyone can help please do.
You have made changes to your photo library using a newer version of iPhoto. Please quit and use the latest version of iPhoto.
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Like I said we need to know exactly what you did
THere are lots of totally different ways to "copy your photos" onto a hard drive
Exactly how did you do that? The correct way to move an iPhoot library is to verify that the hard drive is formattted Mac OS extended (journaled) and then to drag the iPhoto library intact as a single entity to it - reverse to bring it back - just drag it from the EHD to the pictures folder (default location) on your computer
Why are you doing this?
you can try Back up your iPhoto library, Depress and hold the option (alt) and command keys and launch iPhoto - rebuild your iPhoto library database - depending on what has been going on this might resolve things
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Want to move photos to external hard drive
Here is my situation.
I have used iPhoto before abd gave more than one iphoto library on my hard drive. I want to move all of my pictures onto an external drive so I have them all in one place. I then want to delete all the photos on my hard drive so I can free up space.
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And be sure that the External drive is formatted Mac OS extended (journaled) (iPhoto does not work with drives with other formats) and that it is always available prior to launching iPhoto
And backup soon and often - having your iPhoto library on an external drive is not a backup and if you are using Time Machine you need to check and be sure that TM is backing up your external drive
Once you have done this all photos you import will go to the iPhoto library on the EHD so any photos that are not in an iPhoto library are simply imported to iPhoto
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