I can't get iPhoto to recognise my photos.
I'm having trouble after I have download a camera roll, the pictures are showing in iPhoto but if I close iPhoto and open it again the pictures have dissapeared. Well actuall they haven't, they're on the HDD but have gone from iPhoto. I store the photos on the shared drive so any user can see them. I have tried making sure that only one user is logged on when you download, doesn't make any difference. Not sure why it does it but if I re-download the pics, eventually it will recognise them and stay in the library, but might take several attempts.
Any suggestions please as I'm stumped. Thanks.
There's a rule of thumb that goes 'Never let Drive get more then 90% full" and another that says always keep at least 10 gigs free on a drive.
While Finder may report 15 gigs free that space can easily be used by Virtual Memory, cache and other temp files. One of the dangers of running on an overfull disk is problems like you're having with iPhoto.
I would strongly urge you to make space on that disk.
To move and iPhoto Library:
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 can do the same with iTunes, iMovie and FCP projects as well - though check for the exact details for each app.
Regards
TD
Regards
TD
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