Backup iMovie 10.0.7 on external HD
I have read the instructions for backing up the iMovie Library.imovielibrary on an external. I create a new library on my Passport external but it also shows upon my computer with the new event. There is no "new event" on the Passport HD. I don't know which way to turn next on this effort! How does one transfer the content from the computer so that it can be deleted to free up disc space! I am finding the instructions from Apple very vague. Hope someone can help with this seemingly easy task! I am using an iMac OS 10.10.3. Thanks in advance!
You can set the default duration of stills but you have to do it before you start the project.
iMovie is not really suitable for stop motion videos and iMovie 10 is worse than iMovie 9 because the minimum still duration is not really controllable as you have found. I don't have experience of making such videos but there are 3rd party apps which appear more suited to this, for example http://www.macworld.com/article/1146623/stop_motion_Mac.html
mentions some of them, though its a bit old and you may be able to find more up to date information.
Geoff.
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Too many things can go wrong, such as your internal HD failing, and you'll have a major project to reinstall everything.
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buy another HDD ... 500Gigs are ctually around 70-90€, saw yesterday a 1.5TB WD for 140€ ...
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Hi All,
I am currently trying to backup my iTunes library onto an external hard drive so that I can copy it onto my new Macbook Pro. I have been following the steps posted on the Apple website however each time I get a dialogue box stating:
'The operation cannot be completed because you do not have sufficient privileges for some of the items'.
Is this because I have items that were bought under another persons iTunes account? If so, is there a solution to this problem? Or am I doing something completely wrong?
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Sbrooks19Go through the below forum with similar issue and follow the process mentioned by "Macjack" in the beginning.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4499820 -
How can I backup my iPhoto Library to an external hard drive and keep my photos grouped by their events?
I have attempted to make sure my iPhoto library has been backed up on the external hard drive and that it is safe to delete some events from my internal hard drive
You need to think this through.
Time Machine is a back up application. It keeps a rolling back up of the data. It's called rolling because it means you can revert to the data you had on a specific date and time. But that's not eternal, and as time goes by, and your drive fills up, older backups are deleted. So if you delete Events on your Mac they will - eventually - also be deleted from the Time Machine back up.
If you wan tot archive data hendon't use Time Machine for that job. Here's how you might archive an iPhoto Library:
Make sure the drive is formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
1. Quit iPhoto
2. Copy the iPhoto Library from your Pictures Folder to the External Disk.
Now you have two full versions of the Library.
3. On the Internal library, trash the Events you don't want there
Now you have a full copy of the Library on the External and a smaller subset on the Internal
Some Notes:
As a general rule: when deleting photos do them in batches of about 100 at a time. iPhoto can baulk at trashing large numbers at one go.
You can choose which Library to open: Hold down the option (or alt) key key and launch iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library'
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My iTunes library is unstable. I have two questions:
1) How do I backup my iTunes library to an external drive?
2) Why am I constatntly prompted to add my computer to iCloud when I have done so multiple times?
When opening iTunes, I receive he error message: "Please Sign In Again, iTunes Match has encountered an error. Please choose Sign Out and he Sign In from the iTunes Store menu and try again."
I tried downloading and installing/repairing the latest iTunes. That did not correct the problem.
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How do I point iMovie to events in my external hard drive so I can play projects which use them?
MacBook, iMovie 9.0.4Hi
You can do this - by not doing it the way You describe as it will not work.
a. the external hard disk - MUST BE - Mac OS extended (hfs) formatted -
UNIX/DOS/FAT32/Mac OS Exchange - will work for most things - BUT NOT FOR VIDEO (iMovie, iDVD or FinalCut doesn't matter)
b. Do not alter or move any folder named
• iMovie Event's - or -
• iMovie Project's
on DeskTop/Finder - at all
All moving's of Events and Projects must be done within the iMovie Application - then connections will not break.
(move them back and see if iMovie remembers them - then do move as described above)
Yours Bengt W -
Trying to backup my MacBook Pro onto my External Harddrive, error
I am trying to backup my Macbook Pro onto my External harddrive (the same one I always do), and for some reason all of the sudden I get the error message that says that the backup disk is not available. When I click on the time machine icon at the top it just says that the latest back up is just delayed. What should I do?
Your query strongly suggests that you are using thiis particular HHD for Time Machine backups. It seems that your MBP simply is not recognizing the HDD.
When connected it should appear on you desktop.
If it does not, I would connect another HDD to determine if there is an issue with the Time Machine drive. If another drive is recognized then use the same USB cord with the Time Machine drive. If still no success, make an appointment with the Apple Store Genius bar and bring the drive along with your MBP.
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I'm having some difficulty with Time Machine. It appears to be deleting backups from random dates on my external hard drive. I am not deleting them. Are they hidden and how do I prevent this from happening? Can I retrieve them?
... I didn't know that Time Machine was more a last resort back up instead of main back up.
Don't rely upon Time Machine to the exclusion of all else. I compliment Time Machine with a periodic "clone". TM is much better than nothing, but it's a safety net, not a hammock
Here is my understanding of Time Machine's file deletion algorithm, distilled from Pondini's FAQ, Apple's KB articles, and my own observations.
Time Machine deletes ("thins") files from the backup disk as follows:
Hourly backups over 24 hours old, except the first backup of the day
Daily backups over 30 days old, except the first backup of the week
Older backups get deleted when Time Machine requires space and you deleted them from the source disk.
Therefore, assuming TM has been performing at least one backup per day, backup files will remain available:
at least thirty days, if they existed on your Mac for at least a day
until you run out of space, if they existed on your Mac for at least a week
In addition to the above, Time Machine always keeps one complete copy of your source disk so that the entire volume could be restored if necessary. Any files that remain on your source volume will be present on the TM backup, no matter how old they are.
If you are using 250 GB of space on your source disk, its Time Machine backups are likely to require at least twice that much. A good estimate of the minimum required backup volume size would be about three times the size of your source disk - 1.5 TB in your case.
A more thorough explanation would require Pondini since he has plumbed Time Machine's mysteries far more than I have.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1427 -
i have never done a backup; i do not have an external hard drive;
do i need to do a backup before i upgrade/install snow leopard?Most commonly used backup methods
OS X 10.4/10.5 need to upgrade, 10.6.8 ok still
https://discussions.apple.com/community/notebooks/macbook_pro?view=documents -
How can I backup my MacBook Pro to an external hard drive
How can I backup my MacBook Pro to an external hard drive?
Basic Backup
For some people Time Machine will be more than adequate. Time Machine is part of OS X. There are two components:
1. A Time Machine preferences panel as part of System Preferences;
2. A Time Machine application located in the Applications folder. It is
used to manage backups and to restore backups. Time Machine
requires a backup drive that is at least twice the capacity of the
drive being backed up.
Alternatively, get an external drive at least equal in size to the internal hard drive and make (and maintain) a bootable clone/backup. You can make a bootable clone using the Restore option of Disk Utility. You can also make and maintain clones with good backup software. My personal recommendations are (order is not significant):
1. Carbon Copy Cloner
2. Get Backup
3. Deja Vu
4. SuperDuper!
5. Synk Pro
6. Tri-Backup
Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on backup and restore. Also read How to Back Up and Restore Your Files. For help with using Time Machine visit Pondini's Time Machine FAQ for help with all things Time Machine.
Although you can buy a complete external drive system, you can also put one together if you are so inclined. It's relatively easy and only requires a Phillips head screwdriver (typically.) You can purchase hard drives separately. This gives you an opportunity to shop for the best prices on a hard drive of your choice. Reliable brands include Seagate, Hitachi, Western Digital, Toshiba, and Fujitsu. You can find reviews and benchmarks on many drives at Storage Review.
Enclosures for FireWire and USB are readily available. You can find only FireWire enclosures, only USB enclosures, and enclosures that feature multiple ports. I would stress getting enclosures that use the Oxford chipsets especially for Firewire drives (911, 921, 922, for example.) You can find enclosures at places such as;
1. Cool Drives
2. OWC
3. WiebeTech
4. Firewire Direct
5. California Drives
6. NewEgg
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Does iMovie 08 work with two external devices?
Does iMovie 08 work with two external devices without causing latency. I need to capture the video through an external USB webcam and the audio through a Digital Recording box through firewire.
YES and there are multiple postings here with complete information
Also visit:
http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/forumdisplay.php?f=156
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Time machine backup fails in my seagate 3tb external drive
Time machine backup fails in my seagate 3tb external drive
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Best way to backup iMovie to External HD
I have transferred to my computer many hundreds of hours of video in real time using a ADVC110 unit connected to my computer and various VCR machines. Once all the videos were imported into Events, I created at least 20 Projects just to consolidate Event videos into logical groupings. I have a 2G hard drive and it is almost full due to the movies on my computer. Since it has taken at least 6 months to painstakingly import the videos to my computer from a Video Hi8 machine, I am very concerned about how to back-up the Events and Projects to a 4T external HD I have and take them off my computer so I can download more videos. I went to my file and opened Movies under Places. If I drag all the Events and Projects to my external HD, can I delete them from my computer by deleting them from Movies? When I want to edit a particular Project, do I need to drag just the Project back into the iMovie or do I need to add the relevant Evemts that make up a particular Project? Do I need to do something to actually export the movies to the 4T HD, or just drag them into the HD icon on my computer. I am terrified of losing all the work I have done requiring me to start from scatch. Any help would be very much appreciated since I cannot find any books on iMovies for Dummies.
Hi
Last Q: first
I cannot find any books on iMovies for Dummies.
David Pogue's book
• iMovie’11 & iDVD The Missing Manual
Regarding moving Events and Projects
• DO NOT DO THIS on DeskTop/Finder - iMovie will lose reference to it and projects might not work.
• Moves is done Within The iMovie Application - in Project window respectively Events window !
Regarding External Hard Disk
• MUST BE - Mac OS Extended (hfs) formatted. - UNIX/DOS/FAT32/Mac OS Exchange WILL NOT WORK for Video
• Should be a FireWire connected one as USB/USB2 has performed badly to me
Regarding Back-Up
• You should have two independent places to store eg x2 Hard Disks and Back-Up one not connected if anything might happen. Hard disks breaks down too.
Yours Bengt W
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