Default photo folder question....

Is there a way to set the default folder to be my remote storage, so i do not have to load all my pictures onto my hard drive? OR do I have to load them on an as needed basis then delte them to restore the space?

You can as Neil described but it is important that the "remote storage" be directly connected to your system (wired ethernet, firewire, usb or other wired connection) AND that is is formated Mac OS extended (journaled) - the iPhoto library does not operate well on non Mac formatted drives
LN

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Hey guys...
I'm a new Aperture user (1 day) and fairly new to Mac's (5 months). I have a MB Pro with newest OS. Since getting the MBook I've been placing/storing all my photos in /Users/"lastname"/Pictures and then giving each photo "event" a new folder. I first started using iPhoto as an organizer and was not happy with using it. I had used Picasa on my windows machine and it took a few weeks to realize that there was a Mac version for Picasa. It was probably my own fault, but I couldn't figure out how to point iPhoto to my Photos Folder/Directory (maybe its old Windows habits)??? Because of this I installed Picasa and enjoy the easy croping/red eye/face recognition.
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If I "import" all my photos that are currently in a folder/directory order, will Aperture create a duplicate library? And if so, do I bite-the-bullet and use Aperture as my one and only photo organizer, verse my old school ways of organizing photo folders on the hard drive and then going to the folders view via Finder to get a photo??
While writing this I referred to my photo Folder and noticed a iPhoto "library" ...when I click on it, it opens iPhoto and I see photos that I imported these few days I used iPhoto before Picasa. I guess maybe it means I need to get in habit of using the "library" when I want to search out photo for something (emailing, uploading to FB, etc)
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Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
and don’t understand why Aperture don’t keep my folders in sync. So if I delete / add a photo to a folder, it does not update the folder in Aperture, as what you would get in Picasa.
Well the very obvious point is that it's not Picasa and doesn't work like that. Picasa is an attempt to use two databases (the Finder and Picasa) to manage the photos. Aperture simply uses one - the Aperture database. If that's not what you want then don't use it.
If I keep with Picasa, what’s the real benefit of using Aperture?
If you cannot see the opportunities that the Aperture offers for organising, and managing your Photos - including most obviously the tight integration with the OS, so that your photos are in every Open... dialogue on your Mac - and if you cannot see the far, far greater opportunities for post processing your Photos offered in Aperture compared to Picasa, then there is no benefit for you.
If, on the other hand, instead of trying to shoehorn Aperture into your Picasa workflow, you take a few moments to learn how to use it - say by looking at the Aperture tutorials on the Apple site - I think you'll find it's a much more powerful and capable application than your current choice.
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TD

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I'm new to Mac so apologies if I'm asking a really silly question here. I've had a brief look on the iPhoto support vids but can't find an obvious answer.
I want to know if I can use iPhoto to automatically organize my Photos folder; for example, putting images from specific events into folders named accordingly, in the same way that iTunes can do with tracks and albums etc.
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Where are these folders? On the HD? No. In the iPhoto Window? Perhaps, depending on exactly what you are tryng to do.
iPhoto is designed for folsk who want to organise their Photos not their files. Import your pics to iPhoto and it copies the files to the Library. You do all your work in the iPhoto Window - and anything you need to do can be done via that window. And I do mean anything: edit in iPhoto, edit in another app, email, print, share to other applications, upload to Web sites and so on.
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How to keep photo order when opening default photo app?

First it concerns the default photo App: I have created an Album based on recent photos imported from the cloud, there are 125 photos in them, for some reason they are in the wrong order, i.e. by date. I know how to rearrange one photo at a time, but it's painfully slow to go through all 100s of them.
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