IPhoto too big (Can I store externally?)
I use iPhoto to store my iPhone photos, but the catalog is now 100gb plus. I don't use photo streams, and physically connect a cable to import photos.
I'm wondering how I'd go about moving my managed iPhoto Catalogue to an external drive, which is attached to my Time Capsule?
Basically, I want to go shoot some photos, come home, plug in the cable, and send those new photos wirelessly to my NAS.
I'm aware I could then only sync the photos when I was within range of that Hard drive, which leads me to my next question:
- Is it possible to combine catalogs? (I'm thinking of having a second smaller catalog to use when I'm unable to sync to my main Cat (For when I'm traveling for example), that I could then "dump" into the main catalogue when I'm able.
How can I make this a reality?
One other thing I was wondering, is if maybe I should somehow go to a referenced system, where the files are stored elsewhere, and my catalog just know where they are, but is itself small and easy to store locally. Any advantages/disadvantages to that?
Thanks.
An iPhoto Library cannot reside on a NAS. The iPhoto Library needs to be on a locally mounted disk formatted MacOS Extended (Journaled). Use a properly formatted, portable external drive for your iPhoto Library. See this document (the same goes for iPhoto Libraries): Aperture: Use locally mounted Mac OS X Extended volumes for your Aperture library - Apple Support
To merge iPhoto libraries you need either (the paid version) of iPhoto Library Manager or Aperture. It cannot be done directly in IPhoto.
Perhaps you should wait a month or so, until the new Photos.app for Mac will be released. It will support storing your Photo Library in iCloud, see: Apple - OS X - Photos Preview
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