How do I import without copying?

I have all of my mp3 files located on a remote server on my local lan, however, as there is about 56G worth of files, I really do not want itunes to import and copy everything to my local computer. Is there a way to allow itunes to make a playlist of all the remote mp3's without copying them to my local computer?

Open the Advanced section of the iTunes preferences and turn off the option to automatically copy the content to the iTunes music folder.
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Import photos without copying? I Have thousands of photos on a hard drive separate from my mac and i dont have enough space on my mac to copy them to. Any way to import without copying to the local hard drive?

Import photos without copying? I Have thousands of photos on a hard drive separate from my mac and i dont have enough space on my mac to copy them to. Any way to import without copying to the local hard drive?

Yes, but you might want to think carefully about it.
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.
This is an attractive option for some users at face value, but it contains a significant number of issues that you might want to consider before making the decision to run a Referenced Library
How to do it:
iPhoto -> Preferences -> Advanced and uncheck the box at 'Copy items to the iPhoto Library'
Now when you import iPhoto makes an alias in the Library Package that points to the stored file. Note: iPhoto still creates a thumbnail of the image and it makes a Preview of edited photos inside the Library Package.
Issues?
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.
If you want to delete files then you must first trash them from iPhoto and then afterwards find them in your storage and trash them.
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.
3. If you have the Library on one volume and the photos on another you if anything changes in the path to a file (Like if you upgrade your machine, move the files on the NAS or on to another one?) then the alias will break, and you'll have to repair it manually. For every photo in the Library. One at a time.
Why do you want to run a Referenced Library?
Because my photos won't fit on my HD?
You can run a Managed library from an external disk. 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.
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.
You're worried about accessing the files?
There are many, many ways to access your files in iPhoto: You can use any Open / Attach / Browse dialogue. On the left there's a Media heading, your pics can be accessed there. Command-Click for selecting multiple pics.
(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.
If you use a Cocoa-based Browser such as Safari, you can drag the pics from the iPhoto Window to the Attach window in the browser.
If you want to access the files with iPhoto not running:
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
Other options include:
Drag and Drop: Drag a photo from the iPhoto Window to the desktop, there iPhoto will make a full-sized copy of the pic.
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.

How to move applications without copying?

Hi there,
I just installed 10.7 today, after I found out that my MacBook Pro is a month too old to run 10.8. I've noticed a few changes. One of them is that my applications folder is not to my liking.
I organize my applications into folders. I have a LOT of applications and I'm an organized person. Having 150+ applicaitons in one folder would a) reduce my productivity and b) make me cringe every time I use my computer. OS 10.7 doesn't seem to like my choice. When I try to move applicaitons out of the base folder, the application is copied, not moved. Is there an easy way to move applicaitons without copying them? Do I have to hold a special key or do a 7-finger swipe or something?
I can move apps using a sudo mv command in the terminal. The last time I remember using a terminal to overcome the operating system trying to protect me from myself... oh, I remember. It was about 10 years ago when I was using a Windows machine, and it was the experience that convinced me to switch to Mac.
Now, before I get a thousand replys, please don't bother telling me not to move my applications. I've organized them like this for nearly a decade and I'm going to continue doing so. They don't update, they got confused... you can use whatever argument you want. I'm going to keep doing it this way. I don't save every document on my computer into one huge gross pile of crap, and I won't have my applications that way either. It's my computer and I should be able to organize it how I want (yes, I know software developers have to make choices in designing software. I just disagree with the choices made here, and I think hardcoding in paths is bad design). Launchpad doesn't allow for subfolders, so its out.
The question is, is there an "official" way to move apps, or do I have to kludge it through the terminal?
Thanks,
Adrian

Thanks so much for enabling my bad behavior :-).
Haha! No problem.
I'll also add that I still think its bad design to hard code in paths.
I agree. Like this one I discovered a while back:
The Adobe CS4 applications have their own new annoyance. I have found that if you remove the profile "sRGB Profile.icc" from the /System/Library/ColorSync/Profiles/folder, the File Info dialogue box in Illustrator CS4 will come up blank! So will the entire Adobe Extension Manager CS4 interface. What this one particular profile could possibly have to do with the display of a dialogue box, I don't know. You also can't move that profile to the /Library/ColorSync/Profiles/ folder, or the Profiles folder in your user account. While the profile is just as active in either location, the CS4 applications mentioned will blank out if that profile is not specifically in the System's Profiles folder.
Really bad programming there. For one, there's zero need in the first place for a display box to require any kind of profile. Secondly, there's also zero reason for the apps to hard code the location of a particular profile. If sRGB is in an active Profiles folder in any location, it should be able to find the profile the same way every other app does.
But I also wish there was a way to click a checkbox or something to take the training wheels off. I don't like the "Apple knows best" attitude, which is exactly what drove me away from Windows many years ago. But I digress...
Not completely. That's been a huge gripe from many, many users on Apple's decision making of late. As in, "What!? You removed Save As? What!? You mean I can't turn Autosave/Versions off!!??" Whose documents are these, anyway? The early Lion "feature" that insisted on opening all of the windows and apps you had open on a restart, again to mimic an iPad, which wouldn't stay turned off until enough users complained. And other examples where Apple is trying much too hard to try and make OS X look and behave like the iOS. Sorry, this is a desktop computer I'm using, not an iPad. Quit trying to make my desktop behave like an iPad. Different type of computer, completely different usage.

PSE-10 how do I import and copy from external hard drive into organizer

Can I import and copy from external hard drive into organizer? Under Get Photos, I select import from folders/files but after browsing to the external hard drive the copy option is disabled/greyed out. I there a method to import and copy?

That would be mounted as an internal drive and hence the corresponding option is not checked during Import.
Once you import the media form this drive, you can select all and go for File >> Copy/Move files option and copy them wherever you want to.
Hope this helps
Thanks
Andaleeb

HELP! Imported without copying to iPhoto

I have a large photo library of about 50gb, which I previously managed with a different program (not iPhoto). When I decided to use iPhoto, I deselected "copy to iPhoto library" because they were already on my HD and I didn't want to have two copies of each file on the computer.
My problem now is that I am using a program from Blurb to make a photo book and it can only "see" my iPhoto library pictures if they are copied to the iPhoto library, which obviously is not how my library was set up. I should say that in the meantime before discovering this, I extensively rearranged and re-organized my photos in iPhoto using Events and would not like to do that all over again.
My question is, does anyone know if I can somehow copy my photos into my iPhoto library even though the library points to files outside of the iPhoto library, WITHOUT losing or have to re-do all of my event assignments?
I hope this makes sense. Please help!
Thanks very much for any info/advice/ideas.

I believe you have to open the iPhoto library package and drop each folder inside the Originals folder (or possible the entire Originals folder) onto Aliasherder and that is supposed to replace the alias file in the folder(s) with the source files. I'd try it on a test event first (each folder in the Originals folder represents an event) but importing a folder of several photos and then running Aliasherder on that event folder.
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto (iPhoto.Library for iPhoto 5 and earlier) database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
I've created an Automator workflow application (requires Tiger or later), iPhoto dB File Backup, that will copy the selected Library6.iPhoto file from your iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder, replacing any previous version of it. It's compatible with iPhoto 6 and 7 libraries and Tiger and Leopard. iPhoto does not have to be closed to run the application, just idle. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.

Importing WITHOUT 'Copy Files to Iphoto Library Folder'

Hi -
All right - I completely understand the significance of this command. Love that I can use iPhoto simply as a browser to run through all my pictures; however, if I choose not to Copy the Files on to iPhoto, how do I manually put the pictures somewhere else? Right now my iPhoto automatically pops open when I plug in my Canon. I looked in Preferences and didn't notice anything there.
Ultimate goal would be to manually get the pictures into my Documents folder and then import to Iphoto.
Thanks!
Grace

Grace
If you think
I can use iPhoto simply as a browser to run through all my pictures
then you don’t
completely understand the significance of this command
iPhoto is not an image viewer. There are many image viewers for the Mac. Search on MacUpdate. The great thing about these is that they simply show you the contents of a folder of images.
That’s not iPhoto. It’s a database. Images still have to be imported to it, they will still be indexed and - more importantly - once imported you get a lot of disadvantages and few advantages of iPhoto.
If you want to move your pics from the Camera to your own folders: use Image Capture. It’s in your Applications Folder.
Some comments on running a Referenced Library:
1. Import and deleting pics are more complex procedures
2. You cannot move or rename the files on your system or iPhoto will lose track of them on systems prior to 10.5 and iPhoto 08. Even with the later versions issues can still arise if you move the referenced files to new volumes or between volumes.
3. Most importantly, migrating to a new disk or computer can be much more complex.
Always allowing for personal preference, I've yet to see a good reason to run iPhoto in referenced mode unless you're using two photo organisers.
If disk space is an issue, you can run an entire iPhoto Library from an external disk:
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.
If you're concerned about accessing the files, there are many, many ways to access your files in iPhoto:
*For Users of 10.5 Only*
You can use any Open / Attach / Browse dialogue. On the left there's a Media heading, your pics can be accessed there. Apple-Click for selecting multiple pics.
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You can access the Library from the New Message Window in Mail:
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*For users of 10.4 and 10.5* ...
Many internet sites such as Flickr and SmugMug have plug-ins for accessing the iPhoto Library. If the site you want to use doesn’t then some, one or any of these will also work:
To upload to a site that does not have an iPhoto Export Plug-in the recommended way is to Select the Pic in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Export and export the pic to the desktop, then upload from there. After the upload you can trash the pic on the desktop. It's only a copy and your original is safe in iPhoto.
This is also true for emailing with Web-based services. However, if you're using Gmail you can use iPhoto2GMail
If you use Apple's Mail, Entourage, AOL or Eudora you can email from within iPhoto.
If you use a Cocoa-based Browser such as Safari, you can drag the pics from the iPhoto Window to the Attach window in the browser.
*If you want to access the files with iPhoto not running*:
Create a Media Browser using Automator (takes about 10 seconds) or use this free utility Karelia iMedia Browser
Other options include:
1. *Drag and Drop*: Drag a photo from the iPhoto Window to the desktop, there iPhoto will make a full-sized copy of the pic.
2. *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.
3. *Show File*: 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.
You can set Photoshop (or any image editor) as an external editor in iPhoto. (Preferences -> General -> Edit Photo: Choose from the Drop Down Menu.) This way, when you double click a pic to edit in iPhoto it will open automatically in Photoshop or your Image Editor, and when you save it it's sent back to iPhoto automatically. This is the only way that edits made in another application will be displayed in iPhoto.
Regards
TD

Importing WITHOUT copying/moving?

Is it possible to import existing video files without iMovie '08 copying or moving the video - I just want it to reference the existing footage in place? These are simple Quicktime DV files; I know it can play them without a transcode, but I don't want it to copy gigabytes, wasting time and space.
It seems to do this for any video in your iPhoto library, that stays in the iPhoto lib - why can't it do this for other random footage?
Among other things, I want to use the excellent video browsing facilities in the new iMovie just as a viewer for the family's video archive, it will be fantastic for this, but I don't want to have to duplicate hundreds of gigabytes of video into an iMovie library for no reason.

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iMovie only lets you move or copy existing video clips into iMovie's Events folder.
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- messing around in application controlled directories is not a great idea
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1. please add a button to "use existing clips, where they are"
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3. Open in Photoshop by double-clicking on the saved image on your Desktop or Cmd o in Photoshop.
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See this older thread from another forum member Zevoneer on different ways to copy music from your iPod back to your PC.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2417169?start=0&tstart=0
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