HT3819 Home Sharing via External Hard Drive Question

If I'm using an external hard drive to store my iTunes library, why does my MacBook need to be turned on in order to Home Share via AppleTV?

the appletv see the shared lib of the computer it only! connects with the computers shared lib for the appletv it matters not where the media is stored it gets the data from itunes on the computer you can put it in a nas or on a cd or on a floppy disk it's of no relevance for the appletv it sees only itunes

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Apple TV home sharing through external hard drive.

Is it possible to take my movies that are on an external hard drive and hook it to a router so that my computer does not have to be on to home share?

If you intend to use home sharing, that is done through iTunes. The content can reside on your external, but it would need to be pointed to iTunes. The computer would need to be on for it to be available for Apple TV.
The scenario you are looking at would involve looking for a 3rd party app and using an IOS device to transmit the content to Apple TV, and it may not be reliable.

I tried transferring my iphoto library from my old macbook onto my new macbook pro (via external hard drive), but when i open the new iphoto, it seems to have transferred ALL images ever used on my old macbook. so i tried to just del

i tried transferring my iphoto library from my old macbook onto my new macbook pro (via external hard drive), but when i open the new iphoto, it seems to have transferred ALL images ever used on my old macbook. so i tried to just delete all those images so i could try a different approach to transferring, but the new iphoto won't let me do anything and every time i try to delete anything it crashes (since the image amount is so high). please help!!
MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2), iphoto '11, version 9.4.2

To move an iPhoto Library to a new machine:
Link the two Macs together: there are several ways to do this: Wireless Network,Firewire Target Disk Mode, Ethernet, or even just copy the Library to an external HD and then on to the new machine...
But however you do choose to link the two machines...
Simply copy the iPhoto Library from the Pictures Folder on the old Machine to the Pictures Folder on the new Machine.
Then launch iPhoto. That's it.
This moves photos, events, albums, books, keywords, slideshows and everything else.

I had ITunes on a Dell laptop. I copied it all to a Compaq laptop via external hard drive. The Dell is deauthorized. The Compaq is authorized. My IPod Classic will not Sync on the Compaq. I have transferred purchases, but "Sync" is greyed out.

I had ITunes on a Dell laptop. I copied it all to a Compaq laptop via external hard drive. The Dell is deauthorized. The Compaq is authorized. My IPod Classic will not Sync on the Compaq. I have transferred purchases, but "Sync" is greyed out. How can I get the IPod to sync with the Compaq?

If the iTunes sidebar (along left side of window) is hidden, from the menu bar, under View, select Show Sidebar.
The iPod should appear in the sidebar, under DEVICES. Select it there. To the right, its Summary screen is shown. Toward the top, there is a bar of buttons starting with Summary. Click on Music next to Summary. This Music screen is where you tell iTunes how to sync songs ot the iPod.
Check the box for Sync Music. This is the switch to enable automatic syncing. If your iTunes music library fits on the iPod, you can choose to sync Entire music library. Otherwise, you can choose to sync Select playlists, artists, albums, and genres. Then select what you want on the iPod from the lists below.
Click Apply to intiate automatic syncing between that iTunes library and your iPod (based on how the iPod's Music screen is set up in iTunes).

Home network and Externeal hard drives

I've recently set up a home network to allow me to share my files across my two iMac's. My older iMac I've setup with my external hard drives almost as a media center to allow my new Sonos speakers to use my itunes libary, all but one of these are formatted as MS-DOS FAT-32 to allow my read / write from Windows as well as my Mac (My main iMac runs Windows 8.1 on bootcamp and I flip between the two).
My question is this is there anyway for me to get Mac to Mac sharing to read /write to and from the MS-DOS FAT-32 formatted drives they all display fine when i view them Mac to Widows or is this a bug where a mac can read / write when connected directly or via the screen sharing just not the file sharing. Any help would be great or if anyone has a workaround please let me know.
Cheers
Nick

It sounds like you are logged in as Guest (which only has access to each users home directory and drop box). If your navigating to the server via Shared in the sidebar, it should say the name of the user you are logged into that server as. It defaults to Guest. If it is Guest, click the Connect As button and log in as the desired user. You should then be able to see the share points (hard drives etc) you expected.
{quote:title=frankmlinar wrote:}My definition of persistent for use below is: When logged on as a registered user, the computer remains logged on and does not revert to Guest when clicking on various computers or drives in the finder and then returning to the logged on computer in the finder.{quote}
So this is the behavior you want. Correct? You want to only log in once and not have it revert back to being logged in as Guest if you navigate somewhere else and then back again? Correct
So, what you are seeing is this:
Step 1) Click on the server in the sidebar. It automatically, by default, logs you in as Guest.
Step 2) Click on the Connect As button and an Authentication dialog will appear. Login as another user (say Bob).
Note: You should be able to see the share points with no problem.
Step 3) Click on the "Desktop" entry in the sidebar
Step 4) Click on the same server as in Step 1 in the sidebar
Expected results: It will log you in as Bob.
Actual results: It will log you in as Guest.
This is behaving correctly (and is how AFP works). If you want it to remain logged in as Bob after Step 4, either create a keychain via the authentication dialog in Step 2 or before Step 3 you double clicked one of the hard drives listed for that server (or single clicked if your in Column View) to mount it.
Just logging in to an AFP server creates a temporary/soft connection with the server, you have to mount something to make it a solid connection.

Sharing an external Hard Drive connected to Time Capsule

Hi all,
I have my time capsule set and running now for a few weeks. I have an external hard drive which want to connect it to TC and share it over the network.
I connected the HD to the TC and restarted the machine. But I'm not sure why is not showing the HD.
Did I need to reset the TC to make the port sharing work? I just didn't want to reset it before asking the question.
Cheers

Ah, so you are connecting your keyboard to the Time Capsule via usb? I don't believe that will work. If your keyboard has an ethernet port and supports sharing of the hard drive you could try running an ethernet cord from your keyboard to your Time Capsule and then seeing if your other computer that are connected to the Time Capsule can see the drive.
You honestly may have more help if you post in the Korg forums. www.korgforums.com

New to Macbook Pro, External hard drive question.

I've just made the swirch to an Apple Macbook Pro from a PC. I've used the PC since the early 90's and all I know is Windows. However I'm finding myself more at home in Lion. My question is probably a simple one so I'll get to it. I have a 1TB Seagate Mac/PC external usb powered hard drive that I've used on my PC for all my iTunes media, 95% of which was purchased from Apple (who the **** knows if that matters but information could be crucial and besides I saw someone else say that in a post, only he found his music, whatever that means, anyway....). Now I have added all files to the library of my iTunes on the Mac while still running them from the external hard drive and everything transferd smothly (see not a complete idiot) but for some reason I can not write to the hard drive. If I try to update an app, delete a fie, rename or otherwis change the file in itunes I get an error claiming I don't have permission to do so. When I look at the drive itself, sure enough it says I may read only. Now the drive was formatted and used on a Windows PC prior to today. What do I need to do on the Mac end to make it read and writable (is that the right word?) so I can enjoy updating my apps or plain getting rid of some old things? Thanks in advance for any help.
New Mac User

Your external harddisk uses the NTFS file system which is common for Windows PCs.
Mac OSX can read from NTFS harddisks but cannot write to them.
For full access you need a third-party helper tool like the free NTFS-3G or Fuse4X or the commercial ones from Paragon or Tuxera NTFS for Mac.
In the long run and when you don't need a "Windows-PC-compatibility" of the external harddisk anymore you should consider reformating/repartioning the external harddisk using the Mac OSX native partition and file system formats. (GUID and MacOS Extended (Journaled)).
But such an action would delete everything that is on that external harddisk so it is not that easy.
Stefan

55HT1U LCD TV - how to play home videos from external hard drive

Hey guys, I'm connecting my external hard drive to my 55HT1U LCD TV via HDMI to watch home movies. The TV is able to recognize the external drive, I'm able to browse folders and see pictures, but the movie files are not recognized! Does anyone know what formats the TV recognizes, or if there is anything I can do to play movies straight from my external? Thanks.

have been trying this too , the manual says FAT32 files, just my two cents for ya

A different laptop to external hard drive question

hey folks - I am hoping someone can help me (or clarify things for me)
My question is about shootig remotely, downloading files onto lightroom in the field, then transferring the whole lot to my external hard drive when I get home (so there is NOTHING left on my laptop except the lightroom application and an empty catalog when I am done)
I see people asking a similar question all the time on blogs and FAQs, but the answers do not actually answer my problem/question. The answers I see all the time are about exporting and importing catalogs... maybe this is the solution, but I can't see how it answers my parameters above.
Here is the equipment I am using:
- MacBook Pro
- Lightroom 2.1
- External Western Digital hard drive/firewire
- Nikon DSLRs
- Card reader
Here is the situation:
I have the lightroom application loaded onto my laptop. I have a massive repository of my "negatives" on my external drive. I have one big "catalog" on the external drive in the same folders with my "negatives". (so, to view those photos, I open that external drive catalog and view/edit the massive group of photos).
However, when I am on the road, I shoot and download the nagatives onto my laptop hard drive and add the files to a catalog that I have on my laptop -- so, based on my understanding of how lightroom works, these new imports (on the road) have 1) the actual negatives, 2) the metadata/lightroom files thumbnails and details of my edits, and 3) these are included in the "catalog" on my laptop hard drive. So, then, while still on the road, I edit the new photos, crop, color correct etc.
Then, when I get home, I would like to completely transfer/migrate EVERYTHING I just wrote above (except the actual lightroom application and the "catalog" that sits on my laptop) into the existing catalog and negative folders on my external drive... I would like it all to blend into my main system run off my external drive as if I had originally imported the files into my main catalog on my external drive... and I would like my laptop to be like it never had anything to do with the import/edits on the road (no files whatsoever in terms of originals, lightroom files, etc.)
All of the instructions/answers I can find on line tell me how to "export" my catalog to my external hard drive (essentially creating a duplicate version on my external hard drive - showing how you can do this to take images to clients, etc.).
Can anyone point me to an explanation of the process to completely TRANSFER (not copy) all related files from my laptop to my exiting catalog and negative file folders on my external when I come back from the field?
sorry if this is confusing - I may not be interpreting the instructions I am seeing correctly.
any help would be greatly appreciated.
thanks
steve
www.holleyimage.com

I ended up creating a folder within LR on the ext drive-then moved my folders from the internal and another ext drive. I intend to delete those exported (fr LR) files I mentioned in my last post. each one of them had an additional file under it (X something) that said it contained metadata. I fear that by exporting those files, I've now lost the metadata in the files in the catalog. If that's the case, obviously, I'd like to get it back if I can. also, is there a way to make sure I have everything in my new external drive that was on the other two drives? (they were pretty disorganized and I'm not sure all the image files were imported to this catalog. can I import the files I'm not sure I have to the top level folder on my new drive and tell it not to import suspected duplicates and then move any imported files (within LR) to the proper folders?
and one final question: when I exported all the image files into the new drive, LR said it couldn't export about 1000. they are in a separate folder and when I look inside, I see question marks on them. I suspect I already have them in the catalog and these are duplicates because when I didn't know what I was doing, I ended up with a lot of duplicate previews. do you think I should remove that folder with the previews in it and will that take them out of the catalog as well?
thanks in advance for your help
debby (virginiaDeb)

Viewing old itunes library via external hard drive

'ello,
I have an external hard drive that I had linked up to my old iMac, which has now died. I bought a new Macbook pro and want to plug in my old external into my wireless router and pick up my old itunes library. I have plugged in the external hard drive into the USB port on the router. If I look in Finder I can see the o2 router and I have tried to set Internet sharing to ON, but can't do it? I am not even sure that switching on Internet sharing will resolve the issue? Any help on this would be massive.
Thank you.

Hi Phil,
Why not just plug it directly into the computer over USB rather than going through the router? I'm also not sure what enabling Internet sharing would have to do with your ability to access the hard drive via the router. If anything there would be a setting on the router that you'd most likely need to enable to allow the USB content to be accessible as a network storage device.

Filevault Encryption for Moved Home Directory and External Hard Drive

This posting consists of two different, yet associated, questions.
Here is my relevant equipment:
MacBook Pro
Micronet Platinum RAID Pro, 2.5 terabytes (uses: video editing, backup)
LaCie Rugged All-Terrain Hard Disk, 160 gigabytes (use: additional storage for MacBook)
*Question 1:*
I currently use FileVault to encrypt my Home directory on my MacBook Pro. However, I am running out of hard drive space, given that I do a lot of work with film and have a lot of large applications such as Final Cut Studio 2 and Creative Suite 3 Master Collection fully installed and taking up a lot of space.
Hence, I need to move my Home directory to an external hard drive to free up a nice amount of space, and I would like to keep the applications on the Macintosh hard drive to ensure that they run optimally (though the Lacie drive does use FireWire 800, so perhaps it would not matter?). +Leaving my Home directory unencrypted is not an option.+
Question: If I use the Advanced Options for my Account within Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard (Apple menu > System Preferences > Accounts > (right click) Advanced Options...) to change the location of my Home directory to the Lacie external hard drive, will FileVault still encrypt my Home directory at this new location?
*Question 2*
In the past, FileVault would not encrypt data on external hard drives—only data within a Home directory.
Of course, I understand that there are many ways to eschew this limitation of FileVault (e.g., create a secure image with Disk Utility, use third-party software, et cetera). Still, it would be nice to have this functionality built right into the Mac OS as part of FileVault, for ease, reliability, and so on.
Question: With Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, is there now any way to use FileVault to encrypt files other than those within the Home directory? That is, any files that I drop into the Lacie hard drive (for simplicity, let’s assume outside of the Home directory option I asked about above in the first question) would be encrypted by FileVault.
Thanks.

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Sharing an external hard drive with a PC

Hello. I am still using a 2005 PPC iMac running Tiger. My photos are stored in Aperture and Lightroom 2, however they are all stored on my computer's hard drive. I want to remove them from my computer and store them on an external hard drive instead.
My flat mate has a Windows based PC laptop and also has stuff he wants to store on an external hard drive. We were thinking about going halves and getting a Western Digital 2TB hard drive and sharing it.
I understand that the hard drives can be shared for both formats using FAT32, although I am aware there are file size limits and data corruption is very possible, so I will be avoiding that. I have read that it can also be done using NTFS for a PC and downloading NTFS-3G for use with the Mac so both formats can read and write to the hard drive.
My question is this; how will this affect my Lightroom library? Is it even possible to store a Mac based Lightroom Library on an external hard drive that has PC files on it. Or is it safer to not bother sharing a hard drive and getting individual ones?

Fancy an Apple? wrote:
Hello. I am still using a 2005 PPC iMac running Tiger. My photos are stored in Aperture and Lightroom 2, however they are all stored on my computer's hard drive. I want to remove them from my computer and store them on an external hard drive instead.
My flat mate has a Windows based PC laptop and also has stuff he wants to store on an external hard drive. We were thinking about going halves and getting a Western Digital 2TB hard drive and sharing it.
I understand that the hard drives can be shared for both formats using FAT32, although I am aware there are file size limits and data corruption is very possible, so I will be avoiding that. I have read that it can also be done using NTFS for a PC and downloading NTFS-3G for use with the Mac so both formats can read and write to the hard drive.
My question is this; how will this affect my Lightroom library? Is it even possible to store a Mac based Lightroom Library on an external hard drive that has PC files on it. Or is it safer to not bother sharing a hard drive and getting individual ones?
If you are so concerned about data corruption that a 25 year old well tried file system is too risky, what makes you think that a relatively untried, free 3rd party addition is even going to be as safe?
Maybe you should rethink this.

2 Macs sharing an external hard drive, but can't see each other's music

We bought a 300GB Lacie external hard drive, and pointed each Mac's iTunes to the same folder on that drive. Then the computer asked to "consolidate," which means copying all the music on each to that shared folder--which is great so far. But then in iTunes one Mac can only see the music it copied to that folder, and the other can only see the music it copied over. If I go into Finder, I can see both of our music, but in iTunes, no. There is some purchased iTunes music, but mostly just our own CDs.
What happened, and what can I do? Thanks!

Each computer (actually, each user account on each computer) has its own iTunes Library, which is a directory file. Moving computer A's music files to the new hard drive resulted in the Library file being updated to show the new location of the music that already was part of the Library. Moving computer B's files to that same location didn't affect computer A's iTunes Library file.
On each computer, you'll need to use the Add to Library command (or do the equivalent by dragging music folders from the Finder onto the Library icon in the Source panel of iTunes) to get all the music into your Libraries.
If the Copy files to iTunes Music Folder when adding to Library preference is ON (under Advanced\General of iTunes Preferences), then when you add music to your library, those files will be copied to the location in iTunes Music Folder location, if they're not already there. You may want to check these settings to make sure you won't end up with extra copies of music files in locations you hadn't intended.
iMac G4 17; iBook G4 1.33 Mhz 14; iPod 3G 20GB Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Using an External Hard Drive Question

Sorry if this is such a green question but.....
Can you play back music and movies from an external hard drive through Apple TV or do they have to be physically need to be on the Apple TV HD?
Also, Is there a way to play what is "steaming" on a MBP to the TV through Apple TV?
Thanks in advance guys.

JayMacApple wrote:
Can you play back music and movies from an external hard drive through Apple TV or do they have to be physically need to be on the Apple TV HD?
Compatible content from itunes can either be synced to the AppleTV's drive across your network, or if itunes is running you can stream content from iTunes to the AppleTV if it's not on the AppleTV disk.
The AppleTV cannot connect to external drives, but iTunes itself can handle media on external drives connected to your computer.
Also, Is there a way to play what is "steaming" on a MBP to the TV through Apple TV?
If you mean can AppleTV relay a computer's video output (eg a streaming video in a web browser, or whatever is on screen) then the answer is no.
Thanks in advance guys.

Migrating old iMac to new one via external hard drive with Time Machine

I was led to believe this was going to be easy! Using the migration wizard in Utilities I was hoping to copy everything over via my external hard drive however it told me that it couldn't do it because the name already existed so muggins here gave it a new name. It all ran smoothly, even all my email stuff etc etc. Then Time Machine told me it couldn't back up any more because there wasn't enough space on the hard drive. What I now have is two computers on one which I don't want and I don't know how to get it back and then solve the problem of having the same name on the back-up as the computer - not sure if this is making sense. Can anyone help me please?
thanks

Have a look at Pondini's Time Machine guide that might help you get back on track:
http://pondini.org/OSX/MigrationProblems.html
I know hindsight is a wonderful thing but Setup Assistant is the better option for transferring your data.
If all else fails, you can always erase the drive, re-install the OS as if it's new out of the box and use Setup Assistant. Hopefully that won't be necessary and Pondini will see you right.

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