How do i reorganise my full disk

I have a 250GB disc on my iMac but I also have a Terra Byte and a 500GB external drive. My files are not well organised and my iMac HD is nearly full. I would like to store my iPhoto library externally but it will not allow me to drag and drop it. Can I remove the whole of my User folder to an external disc to free up space?

This is our resident iPhoto guru, Terence Devlin's, advice:
You can move your iPhoto Library to an external disk:
1. Quit iPhoto
2. Copy the iPhoto Library Folder 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.

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https://www.winmagic.com/products/full-disk-encryption-for-mac
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I am currently testing a trial license from Checkpoint Full Disk Encryption.
http://www.checkpoint.com/products/datasecurity/pc/index.html
The company where I work is a Checkpoint reseller, and normally only has dealings with other companies, not end users. But we arranged a trial license and I can buy a single user license Checkpoint Full Disk Encryption if the test proves Checkpoint Full Disk Encryption is a good solution.
I created a bootable usb disk with Snow Lepoard on it. But I was unable to install FDE on it. After reboot I only get a blank screen, that's it. Probably it isn't supported to boot from a full disk encrypted removable drive, I can understand that.
I can't create a virtual Snow Leopard machine (legal reasons) to test it on. And all FDE solutions I found aren't compatible with Mac Server, which is a shame because you can virtualize Mac Server legally.
So now I am planning to change the hard-disk of my MBP this evening with another hard-disk to test Checkpoint FDE there. I don't want to upgrade my current Leopard installation to Snow Leopard only to discover it doesn't work as expected. I could of-course use my current installation and when it doesn't work rollback to a timemachine backup, but before that I have to decrypt my disk and uninstall PGP witch will take 1-2 days, and encrypt again when the test is over. Not pratical.
I will let you know how the test with Checkpoint Full Disk Encryption went!

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user12039625 wrote:
Hi Helios,
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Last edited by tlamer (2012-11-13 13:06:28)

Lero wrote:
I'm no expert on those things, although i have to ask if you did use LVM along with LUKS ?
According to wiki https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dm … _LVM_setup for volume to mount early in boot process you have to add "lvm2" hook in mkinitcpio.conf.
you need to add lvm2 only if you use LVM on LUKS on vice versa. I did not used LVM, so it wasnt necessary for me...
Anyway... this thread wont be much useful... can i delete it?
Last edited by tlamer (2012-11-13 13:08:57)

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