HT4847 Question re: storage for photos

I bought storage for photos, and yet I keep getting the notice that there is not enough available storage to take a photo. Yet, I only have taken ten photos and my settings tell me that of 15.0 GB in iCloud, I have 14.9 available. What can I do?

Keep ALL the media on one drive and TM on it's own drive. NEVER NEVER NEVER mix a backup drive with any storage. The reason being is if/when that drive crashes you will have lost all the data and backup! For the media drive you may need a high speed drive and bus. The only reason I can think of for a high speed drive would be if you put photos on it and do lots of editing on them in something like Aperture, Photoshop etc...If that does describe your needs get a 7200RPM drive AND use the fastest bus your computer has. This will probably be Firewire or Firewire 800 depending on what iMac you own. If this does not describe your needs as long you keep the media (movies, photos & music) on one drive and the TM on a separate drive you're good to go.
BTW if you haven't seen these you will find them helpful:
iPhoto: How to move the Library to a EHD
iTunes: How to move the library to a EHD

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I need extra storage for my ipad to store photos on ... I have so far been looking at the Airport Time Capsule & Seagate Wireless Plus.
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If you need to offload photos as you have too many, the best way is to plug the iPad into you computer running Mac OSX and dump them into iphoto.
If you want to use something by wireless, without a computer then any network connected hard disk will work much the same. You cannot use file storage directly anyway.. you need to load a file app to start with.
I think use whichever works out the cheaper for you.
Do note the TC is really not designed to do this job and if you already use the TC for Time Machine it is messy loading files onto it. This is apparently a new purchase so you are not using the TC at all..
The TC lacks a method to back itself up.. And this is one of its great weaknesses.. if the TC fails.. and they all fail at some point. How are you going to recover those photos?? From iPad you will not have the tools needed to do backups of the TC to another location.
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Hope I'm not being obtuse, but the answer to this isn't clear to me from the various "help" menus.
The situation is complicated by my living 50 miles from my elderly father.
I need about 50 GB for my photos, but have to pay for 200, of course.
So, is there a way for my Dad, who is a member of my iCloud/App/Whatever family to move HIS photo library from HIS computer to MY iCloud account without having to purchase more iCloud space for his personal account? (His photo library also - barely - exceeds the limit of the next increment of storage available so that i'll have to buy him 200GB if there isn't a way to share the storage from my iC account.
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Duh! Nevermind. I think I definitely WAS being obtuse about how to share photos.

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I wish to see my photos on the icloud and use it as the storage. How can i do this

iCloud is not designed to do this, apart from having a very basic photo gallery in 'Photo Journal'.
'PhotoStream' is purely a conduit for shunting pictures taken on one device onto all the others signed into the same account: the photos are not visible on the iCloud website.
Shared PhotoStreams (iOS6 only) enable you to shunt selected photos onto other people's accounts, or you can display them on a website:
http://help.apple.com/icloud/#mmc0cd7e99
iCloud provides a simple gallery in the form of 'Photo Journal' - uploading of photos from iPhoto to web pages hosted on iCloud, but only from iOS devices; and the photos are compressed to a size adequate for online viewing but are not available in full resolution as with the old MobileMe Gallery. Apple have provided a sample album here.
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Hi guys,
I'm starting to run low on disc space and decided to see how much of my hard drive is being used for what by using "About This Mac". My Macbook Pro is showing that I have used 164.62GB on photos. I've checked and my iPhoto library (which stores all my personal pictures) is only 68.66GB. I get that there will obviously be more spaced used on my HDD for pictures other than my iPhoto but I really can't see how that totals nearly 100GB. Is there likely to be an old iPhoto library file lurking in a folder somewhere?
I'm pretty sure I'm also not using as much space for movies as well but this is nearly no where as much of a concern.
Any help on what could be causing this would be very much appreciated.
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my hard drive is being used for what by using "About This Mac". My Macbook Pro is showing that I have used 164.62GB on photos. I've checked and my iPhoto library (which stores all my personal pictures) is only 68.66GB.
About this Mac is a very crude measure of anything. That will include just about every image, icon, UI element on your Mac. It's so vague as to be meaningless.
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HT4859 5GB worth of storage for photos and videos in the camera roll

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Oh okay, now I get it. I'm just getting used to this whole cloud thing and I thought they were the same thing. But one is back-up to keep it safe and one is to send the photo stream to the cloud and to share.
Thanks for your help, but I'll ask you also if you know of a way to save photo stream videos to the cloud??

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Move your photo and video libraries to an external HD. Apple explains how to do this in:
iPhoto: How to move the Library to an EHD

Storage for photos

What is the best way to store photos on an iPad 2 with 16G of memory?

Mr Fib-
I don't know the answer as far as a "best" way. I would not use an iPad to store photos that were not needed there, and would always store them in at least two other different places.
I have a separate hard drive where I keep one copy of all of my photos. I also keep them on my computer's hard drive, which is backed up to an Apple Time Capsule. I never erase photos from my camera's memory card until they have been transfered and backed up.
Accidents happen!
Fred

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It may not be supported and can't be done with the camera connection kit, but it is possible with an external wireless drive that supports usb such as the Apotop or iUSBport. You plug your drive into the device and then connect the ipad to it wirelessly. You can then transfer photos to and from a usb thumb drive.

Can I use icloud as a storage for photos from my PC without pushing all of them to my iphone?

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Am I expecting too much from my cloud!?

No.
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I am using Windows Live Photo gallery to import pictures taken on my iphone to the My Pictures folder on Windows 7 and choose the option to delete these images from the device during transfer.
At the same time, I have iTunes configured to automatically synchronize the My Pictures folder onto the iPhone.
I'm a bit confused and concerned if I'm messing this up both by opting to "delete images from device" during photo import and at the same time "synchronize".
Is it smart enough to know what photos are new and have never been transferred vs. photos that are sourced from the PC and synced?
Can someone please comment on this?
When syncing photos to the iPhone, is there downscaling of the image happening so that it is lower resolution on the iPhone than the source image on the PC?
Further, what happens when you exceed the storage capacity on your iOS from syncing so many photos?
I'm not there yet, but will be soon. Will it start to drop the "oldest" pictures first?
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FOr the fragment part of your question, NO do not fragment it with windows. It doesn't matter how fragmented the harddrive on the ipod is because its accessing only music. You use the ipod updater to restore an ipod, which basicly formats and defrags a ipod http://www.apple.com/support/ipod/five_rs/

HT4847 Question re: storage for photos

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