Help!!!!! iPhoto 11 has ruined my photos stored on an external drive!
I have been having numerous problems since upgrade to iPhoto 11. I moved my library to an external SeaGate GoFlex Network drive for more space. But I just added 22 pictures, got the wheel of death for every one. and then when I tried to find the library, it kept creating multiple iPhoto Libraries. Only one of which has my current photos and the other has all my other photos. How do I get this software to consolidate libraries and to remember that my library is on an external network drive?
What format is the external drive? To operate with iPhoto it must be Mac OS extended (journaled)
How is it connected? For succerss it must be a wired connection - not wireless
How were you "trying to find" the library? looking for a library can not create one
If the iPhoto library is on a properly formatted drive properly connected then having iPhoto use it as the default is simply to depress the option key and launch iPhoto and use the select library command
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iPhoto works best when the source (Pictures folder) is on a different disk drive than the iPhoto Library is on.
And you need to have enough free disk space to work with, the faster the better.
Also, do not keep your media folders and those in your home folder on the same drive as the system, also another bottleneck.
Until or unless you have everything on 1400MB/sec SSD PCIe controller, you want
System boot drive
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scratch
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etc
I put iPhoto on an SSD off an SSD PCIe Sonnet Tempo card
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Fix #1
1 - launch iPhoto with the Command+Option keys held down and rebuild the library.
2 - run Option #4 to rebuild the database.
Fix #2
Using iPhoto Library Manager to Rebuild Your iPhoto Library
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