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I have my iphoto library on an external harddrive. However the other day I had unplugged the external drive and when I launched Iphoto, it loaded my entire library. I control-clicked on a photo and chose 'show file'. A finder window opened and it showed what appear to be some sort of an invisible folder on my internal harddrive called 'VOLUMES' then there is a subfolder that has the same name as my external harddrive.. its as if iphoto has copied everything to a local location.. I want to find it and change the setting so this no longer happens.. I only want my photos on the external drive... but when I try to find this local directory or when i search for any photo names, I get zero search results.. wierd.. so again the entire library loads w/o my external harddrive being connected, but I can actually find where the photos are loading from..??
Is anyone familiar with what is happening here and what i need to do?
Thanks!

The /Volumes folder is how Apple implemented what is called a "mount point" in Unix. When you connect an external device (network, or a real disk drive) to your computer, Mac OS "automounts" it to the /Volumes folder. In this way, your newly connected device is in the folder "tree" of your file system, so you can access it just like it was part of your hard drive. In practice, most Mac OS users never use the /Volumes folder directly, though. Programs use it to access data on other devices, while sheltering you from the Unix specifics.
You have access to it through the user interface in the upper left corner of every Finder window. When you click on "NicksExternalDrive" in the upper left of the Finder, what's really happening is that Finder navigates to "/Volumes/NicksExternalDrive". When you disconnect the drive, it is "unmounted" and its corresponding directory in Volumes should be removed, and its entry in the drive list in the Finder will also disappear.
Since the iPhoto database indicates your pictures are on the external drive, iPhoto will be looking for that picture in the "/Volumes/NicksExternalDrive/SomeDirectory/iPhoto/....." folder (and I just made that up). When you ask iPhoto to see the "Show File," it sends that folder name to Finder and asks Finder to open up that folder. What you see, then, is Finder now being able to directly access that folder, since it's not connected to your computer. It keeps going up the folder tree until it gets to a folder that really exists, and then opens that for you. Since the drive is not connected, the first folder that exists is the "/Volumes" folder, and then you see that window.
I can't say exactly why your library, without pictures, is available when you don't have the hard drive connected. Did you choose to have iPhoto not copy files into its database, but rather to use files from your original locations? If so, your database/library is really on your local hard drive, but your photos (unmanaged by iPhoto) are on the external drive.
nathan

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