If I import my pictures to iPhoto from an external HDD, does it mean I have 2 sets of the pictures?

If I import a folder from my external hdd to iPhoto library, does it mean I can remove the HDD, and I have 2 copy of folder?
And if the folder is 10gb in my HDD, does it also took 10gb in the Mac HDD after import to iPhoto?

Moving the iPhoto library is safe and simple - quit iPhoto and drag the iPhoto library intact as a single entity to the external drive - depress the option key and launch iPhoto using the "select library" option to point to the new location on the external drive - fully test it and then trash the old library on the internal drive (test one more time prior to emptying the trash)
And be sure that the External drive is formatted Mac OS extended (journaled) (iPhoto does not work with drives with other formats) and that it is always available prior to launching iPhoto
And backup soon and often - having your iPhoto library on an external drive is not a backup and if you are using Time Machine you need to check and be sure that TM is backing up your external drive
LN

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I have moved my iPhoto to an external hard drive. so now I have to have the external hard drive connected to my laptop to view the photos. Now when I want to import photos into iPhoto from my media card, I don't have room to connect both devices at the same time as the usb ports are side by side. How do I import my photos from the media card to the external hard drive now?

First transfer the photos to a folder on your MacBook using Image Capture in your Utilities folder. Then move them to iPhoto.
BTW, you might want to invest in a cheap USB hub.

I am trying to export my iPhotos to an external HDD. As soon as it gets to 200 photos, I get an error message that says unable to create volumes/freecom/my pictures. Can i remove this limit or increase it? I have nearly 17,000 pictures to export.

I am trying to export my iPhotos to an external HDD. As soon as it gets to 200 photos, I get an error message that says unable to create volumes/freecom/my pictures. Can i remove this limit or increase it? I have nearly 17,000 pictures to export.

1. What format is the external drive? It sounds like it's ina format that Macs can't write to. Is it a NAS or NTFS?
2. Easiest thing: just move your iPhoto Library to the external
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.
Regards
TD

How do I stop iTunes from automatically importing songs I listen to from my external hard drive into the music library?

How do I stop iTunes from automatically importing songs I listen to from my external hard drive into the music library?

Mac OS X: Double-Clicking a File Opens the Wrong Application - http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2291
-= Changing the application used to open all files of a certain kind (written with reference to OSX 10.4 but may not have changed) =-
1) In a Finder window highlight a file of the kind you want to change the application to open that kind of file.
2) While that file is highlighted, select File > Get Info or press command (apple or propeller icon) + i to get a file information window.
3) In the lower part of the info window there is an "open with" menu with a list of applications.
4) If your application is already in the box then it is the default application for opening that kind of file and you don't need to do anything more. Close the get info window.
5) If the application showing in the menu is not the one with which you wish to open the file then select a new application. If your application does not appear there then select the "other..." and track down the application (usually in the Applications folder at the main level of the computer).
6) If you wish to change all files of this type to open with this application in future, make sure the "change all" button is selected.
7) Close the get info window.

Whenever I try to open iPhoto, a message comes up saying that 148 photos have been found in the iPhoto Library that have not been imported. It asks me if I want to import them and I say NO but then it places them in a recovered photo folder. I keep deleti

Whenever I try to open iPhoto, a message comes up saying that 148 photos have been found in the iPhoto Library that have not been imported. It asks me if I want to import them and I say NO but then it places them in a recovered photo folder. I keep deleting the empty recovered photo files but it just keeps asking me every time I go to open iPhoto! I'd love to just get rid of the "found" photos (I can't open them anyway!)
How do I get rid of them so that I can just open iPhoto straight up without this?
Linda

Open your iPhoto Library package with the Finder.
Click to view full size
look for a folder titled Import or Importing and move it to the Desktop. Launch iPhoto to see if the message goes away. If there is no message check the contents of the Import folder to see if you want to keep any of those image files (usually they have not been imported into iPhoto). If you want to keep them then drag the folder into the open iPhoto window to import.
OT

Hi, I just updated my mac from version10.6 to 10.9.3 os mavericks. i went to open iPhoto and it says "Your photo library will not be readable by previous versions of iPhoto after the upgrade." does this mean I have lost all photos i had in there?

Hi, I just updated my mac from version10.6 to 10.9.3 os mavericks. i went to open iPhoto and it says "Your photo library will not be readable by previous versions of iPhoto after the upgrade." does this mean I have lost all photos i had in there? It does not give me a choice, it just says quit or upgrade? p.s. i didn't realise ther was a way to back up my computer beforehand, which i am guessing this is time machine?

1. No, you haven't.
2. Back up the iPhoto library(this can be done through Time Machine or by dragging it to a drive, partition, or disk image formatted as Mac OS Extended) and then click Upgrade.
3. Aside from Time Machine and drag-copying items from your home folder, programs such as the Disk Utility, Carbon Copy Cloner, and SuperDuper can make backups.
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I had a library of 500 songs,some purchased some imported from cd's i have since lost in a fire. I only have purchaed music in library. Does that mean I have to purchase music match to include any other music?

I had a library of about 500 songs, some purchased and some imported from cd's I have since lost in a fire. Only the purchased ones now appear in my itunes library. Does that mean iI have to subscribe to music match in order to have all of my music in my itunes library? I still have most of the songs on my iphone. I use a pc.

" When I did this, my library showed all the music I have "purchased" from itunes but did not have the music that I downloaded a long time ago through itunes from my old CDs."
Correct.
" How can I get that music to show up in my library now on my new computer? "
Copy it from your old computer or your backup copy of your old computer.
The sync is one way - computer to ipod.

How to open older version of iPhoto from an external drive. It won't let me open or upgrade to the latest version?

How to open older version of iPhoto from an external drive. It won't let me open or upgrade to the latest version?

With the amount of information you've provided it's impossible to offer a potential solution. We can't see your computer so we need to know the details of your problem and setup, i.e.:
what version of iPhoto are you using?
what system version are you running?
what fixes have you tried?
how is the EHD where the library is located formatted?
did you apply any updates or upgrades just prior to the problem occurring?
are you running a "managed" or "referenced" library?
what type of Mac?
how much free space on your boot drive?
OT

Can i run i tunes/iphoto from an external hard drive?

does any one know if i can run ituens/iphoto from an external hard drive and if so how do i do it?

Drag the libraries to it, launch each application with the Option key held down, and point them there. The iPhoto library needs to be stored on a drive, partition, or disk image formatted as Mac OS Extended.
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Hello, I have Mac released in mid 2012 with OS 10.10.2, my friend has downloaded iMovie and iPhoto from his ID, whenever any updates comes I have to depend upon his Apple Id, to get rid of it, I deleted the app and now when I m trying to download it

Hello,
I have Mac released in mid 2012 with OS 10.10.2, my friend has downloaded iMovie and iPhoto from his ID, whenever any updates comes I have to depend upon his Apple Id, to get rid of it, I deleted the app and now when I m trying to download it from my Apple ID it is showing the price of the app. It should show free. Pls help.

Log in with the Apple ID used to register the computer. If you don't have access to it or the applications still don't show as being free, click here and contact Apple.
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How can I migrate an Aperture library from an external HDD with Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted) format?

How can I migrate an Aperture library from an external HDD with Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted) format?
I used to store my pictures on an external hard drive using the latest version of Aperture. Now I tried migrating my Aperture library to Photos. However, after a short moment an error message popped up telling me that "Photos was unable to make a copy of your library before preparing it. Photos does not have the necessary permissions...".
My external HDD doesn't need any permission repairs nor is the system prohibited to read from or write to it.
Thanks for any advice in advance!
Gohtac

My guess is that the encryption is the problem for the new app.

TC Extremely slow when copying files from an external HDD

I have a new TC, everything works well. Now I am trying to copy my iTunes library from an external HDD that is hooked on the USB of the TC. The directory is well over 300GB, the estimated time of completion is 70+ hours, that can be?!
Last week I copied all my pictures from the same external HDD to another drive via USB connection on my laptop and the directory was about 200GB, it took about an hour.
Is there anything wrong or is this normal?
Thanks in advance,
Ilias

itsiph wrote:
Thanks for the quick answer. I was not clear enough though, I want to copy my iTunes library onto the TC from my external USB drive. The iTunes library is to stay on the TC so that I can always access it without the need of having an external HDD always connected to the TC.
What I do not want is the library on my MacBook.
DOes that make sense?
Yes, that's what I thought.
However you connect things, the copying process is done +*by your Mac,+* not the TC.
As I said, connect the USB drive directly to your Mac, and your Mac to the TC via Ethernet if at all possible. That will still take a while, since Ethernet is much slower than USB, but at least you won't have the data going back and forth through the TC. The data will go from the USB drive to your Mac, then to the TC via Ethernet.
If you leave the USB drive connected to the TC, the data will be copied from the USB drive, through the TC, to your Mac, then back to the TC's internal HD.

When I choose external editor in iPhoto on my iMac it does not recognize Aperture. When I do the same on my laptop it works? Any ideas?

When I choose external editor in iPhoto on my iMac it does not recognize Aperture. When I do the same on my laptop it works? Any ideas?

No idea, but Aperture is not an external editor. Like iPhoto, Aperture is a Photo Manager. It's a database. There is no way to round trip a shot from iPhoto to Aperture and back again like you can with Photshop or an image editor.
Given that Aperture does pretty much everything that iPhoto does - and a whole lot more - it begs the question: why not just use it to manage your photos?

Can I boot a Windows OS on my iMac from an external HDD?

I have two hard disk drives:
One is inside of my 2009 iMac, running leopard. Also on my internal drive is a Windows OS partition, currently running windows 7. One is a WD 1TB external HDD, which I boot Mountain Lion off of. The thing is, I'm running out of room on my internal hard disk drive. Since it is entirely possible to boot Mountain Lion from my external HDD, would it be a good bet that I can make my iMac do the same for a Windows OS? Or is this not the case?

Microsoft does not allow a installation of any version of Windows on an EHD. This is not an OS X or iMac issue,it's strictly with MS Windows.
However, some people have developed hacks to make installing Windows on an EHD possible, the keyword is hacks so you are left on your own to find out how to do it and support it.
Sorry for the discouraging news but unfortunately that's how it is.
As a work around I'd recommend moving large libraries to another EHD, examples of large libraries are iTunes, iMovie & iPhoto. Apple provides instructions on how to do this, you can find them at:
iTunes: How to move the library to an EHD
iMovie: How to move the Library to an EHD
iPhoto: How to move the Library to an EHD
If you make these moves then you can do a standard installation of Windows on your iMac using either Boot Camp or virtualization software such as Parallels or Fusion.

How do I start up from an external HDD?

My G4 crashed last night, so I need to start up from my external HDD which has the OS installed on it too, to repair my normal Internal start up drive.
I've forgotten how though and I need some important files within the next half hour.
If anyone knows how, please let me know ASAP.
Thanks.

Hi Merc
First of all, let me caution you that drive/data recovery and urgent access to your files are pretty much mutually exclusive. If your data can be recovered, you'll need to exercise patience.
Second, do you have a backup of your valuable data? If so, how old is it, and how much effort would it be to bring it up to current status?
If you don't have a backup, let me recommend that you set one up as soon as this process is done.
So, first, run Disk Utility either from the secondary drive (an OS X volume, I assume?) or from your install CDs. (Running it from the drive will be a bit faster.) If Disk Utility is able to see your primary volume, run Repair Disk on it and see if that corrects the issue.
If that doesn't work, my next recommendation would be to purchase and run DiskWarrior. You can get a download as soon as you purchase it, and run it from your secondary drive. If your drive issue is a corrupted directory (very common), DiskWarrior will attempt to repair it. This program is a great investment, and I'd recommend it for almost any Mac user.
If your drive issue is physical (ie, it's dead, and no software can recover it), there's not much you can do at home, but a specialised data recovery service may be able to help you.
Good luck!
Matt

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