IPhoto storage on WD My Book Live
I have a WD My Book Live backup storage.
I followed the procedure and did a backup of my iMac.
When I access WD backup from my iMac or from my MacBook or iPad, the document folder and then a document opens instantaneously.
If I open the backup iPhoto folder the iPhoto template appears on the desktop screen and I can then go off and make a cup of coffee while it loads.
To change to a differant album the loading takes for ages.
Can you help?
Henry
It's very simple. You can't have an iphoto Library on Networked storage.
Put it on a USB/Firewire?Thunderbolt disk directly attached to the Mac and formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
Problem solved.
See this article
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS5168
for more. Note the comment:
“Additionally, storing the iPhoto library on a network rather than locally on your computer can also lead to poor performance or data loss.”
So you have the performance issues... can the dataloss be far behind?
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