Is an external hard drive the best way to keep tons of photos and songs, or does it slow down the mac too much to retrieve it?
I have an old Macbook that has a bunch of pictures and songs on it, but few videos. What I do have is slowing it down, particularly iPhoto - I sometimes have trouble editing pictures because the RAM just isn't there (I have it maxed out at 2gb), or even organizing them. I have thought of moving my pictures off the mac onto a hard-wired external drive, but have been told it makes mounting iPhoto even slower to do so. What do people do that have many thousands of pictures?
Install software such as Paragon NTFS. Regardless of the method you use, back the data up; that drive may fail at any time.
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External Hard drive Died - Best way to restore library
The External Hard drive where I stored all my iTunes files has died and I am unable to retrieve any files. Every thing is on my iPod whats the best way of geting the library & playlists back into iTunes?
Install software such as Paragon NTFS. Regardless of the method you use, back the data up; that drive may fail at any time.
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Please Advise On The Best Way To Keep Your Battery Healthy And Not Deformed
I am a black macbook (mb) user and have had my mb for 37 months now. after a year and a half, my battery (the first one) was deformed and i was advised to replace it quickly. i was also advised to calibrate my battery occasionally and so i did after that. but in just over a year after i replaced my battery, it is starting to deform and swollen. i have been following the advice and calibrated my battery as advised. my battery is still in normal condition according to the system profiler.
when i first bought my macbook, i was told NOT TO keep recharging my battery whenever i used it and the battery drains because this would make the battery's life shorter. i was also told it is OKAY to have the power plugged in. and so i did that. but it turned out that my battery had deformed from it. most probably from the heat but i don't know.
i use my macbook regularly. i keep it switched on almost 24 hours a day and i keep it well ventilated (i sit it on top of iLap) because i have my internet on 24 hours a day and use the internet regularly. i am not planning to replace my battery just yet even though the battery capacity has gone down to 77%. it's expensive here. i will keep on continuing with the calibrating every now and then. now it might be the magsafe's problem that the battery is deforming too soon. one time, the magsafe fell from my bed onto the floor quite hard. and since then it wasn't working properly. sometimes it heats up and it becomes too hot to hold for long. at times the battery would say 0:00 (time left charging) but the light doesn't change to green so i have to plug it out from my mb and from the main plug and rest it for about 10 seconds and then it runs as normal. i know i probably need to change the adapter soon.
anyway, i'm just asking. for someone who uses his mb regularly or everyday and almost 24 hours a day, what is your best advice on how to keep the battery healthy and in good condition for a long period of time?
sorry for the rambling but thank you.About Batteries in Modern Apple Laptops
Apple - Batteries - Notebooks
Extending the Life of Your Laptop Battery
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What is the best way to create a dynamic photo and caption viewer?
Hello
I am fairly new to working with Dreamweaver and Flash. I am
trying to create some pages where the user can click on one of many
thumbnail images on a page and then see a larger image and some
corresponding text on the same page in a viewer.
Is it possible to do this in Dreamweaver cs3 by;
creating an xml data sheet for an album
then making a placeholder for image and text viewing on the
web page (which the Dreamweaver cs3 tutorials suggest)
finally, make a 'spry menu table' to place my thumbnail
images.
I want to create something rather than download pre-made
flash viewers and try to customise them.
ThanksHave you seen this?
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/spry_photo_album.html -
What's the best way to transfer 11,000 photo's from my old mac to my new one?
What's the best way to transfer 11,000 photo's on iphoto to iphoto on my new mac. I've just spent 24 hours importing them onlu for it to say there is not enough space available - BUT I'VE JUST BOUGHT AN NEW UPGRADED MAC?
Don't import them.
To move an iPhoto Library to a new machine:
Link the two Macs together: there are several ways to do this: Wireless Network,Firewire Target Disk Mode, Ethernet, or even just copy the Library to an external HD and then on to the new machine...
But however you do choose to link the two machines...
Simply copy the iPhoto Library from the Pictures Folder on the old Machine to the Pictures Folder on the new Machine.
Then launch iPhoto. That's it.
This moves photos, events, albums, books, keywords, slideshows and everything else. -
whats the best way to transfer all my pic and vid files from Mac Air to back up drive to free up space on hard disk?
Get a third drive if needed, open the Time Machine pane of System Preferences, set it not to exclude that drive, and drag the files to it. If you're moving an iTunes or iPhoto library, launch the application with the Option key held down and choose the moved library.
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What brand external hard drive is best with time machine
what brand of external hard drive works best with time machine?
Contrary to the other two replies, I will relate what I've read here: WD drives are fine, but their (cheap?) enclosures are subject to failure. Some buy a bare WD drive and install it in an Oxford Chip external enclosure (OWC / macsales.com would be one source). And, I have two LaCie Quadras and one OWC Mercury Pro - both are generally recommended here. If you want it bootable, most WD drives do not support it:
http://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1787/related/1/session/L2F2LzEvd GltZS8xMzUxNTIzMzIwL3NpZC9ueUFYc1g5bA%3D%3D
Please note: it's good to have an external hard drive which has its own power supply and, as mentioned, FW 800 or USB 3). You also do not need any software that comes on the external - you will most likely need to format it anyway because most come formatted for Windows, but that is easy using Disk Utility. -
hello once again.. i have formatted my external Hard drive it using exFAT, now my windows cant detect my device, can u plzz help me the whole purpose is getting ruined, i use Windows 7 ultimate 64 bit
This is a problem with the Mac OS X implementation of exFAT. I've had the same problem.
Best is to use a Windows box to format the drive exFAT. Then it can be read by both Windows and Mac OS.
But aren't Macs supposed to "Just Work"? Not in this case. -
External hard drive connected to my airport extreme will no longer open, when navigating to it in Finder, the Finder window quits and reopens, cannot access hard drive, it is visible in airport utility, since the problem began I have updated firmware on Extreme as well as both of my Airport Expresses. Hard drive is USB connected to Extreme.
Reboot the USB drive.. assuming it is powered.. or unplug and replug a self-powered drive.. (you should not use self-powered drives on AE before the latest model.. always use a powered hub).
Does the drive now appear in finder..
If not reboot both drive and the AE.. it should now appear.
If it doesn't work with direct connection try a powered hub.. that can help. -
My backup external hard drive hasn't work since I insalled Snow Leopard. Bad:( I am still learning about my MAC and would just like to re-format the hard dive and set everything up again. I want to upgrade to Lion but can't untill I backup what I.
Read through the links here, calm down and take your time.
https://discussions.apple.com/community/notebooks/macbook_pro?view=documents -
I have an external hard drive from my time capsule that stopped working on me. I am attempting to access the data with a hard drive reader on my MAC. I am able to see the drive in disk utility and under system info USB. But I am unable to access the data and it does not show on the desktop when connected.
Ok if disk utility was able to verify the drive I doubt there is any problem.. are you trying to open a TM backup??
You need to mount the sparsebundle then check the actual info inside the bundle.
Don't use disk warrior.. if the disk has verified then unless you deliberately deleted files there is nothing that is going to do.
Pondini has a lot of stuff about getting access to the sparsebundle.
http://pondini.org/TM/17.html
But if you have copied info to the TC that is now gone.. and the disk is ok.. I am not sure.. the TC will not have deleted the files itself. -
I had all of my music on an external hard drive that crashed. I have iTunes Match so all of my music was synced in the cloud. How do I now re-load my music back down onto a new external hard drive?
Hey Rbe58!
I believe this question can be answered by the information in the following article:
iTunes 11 for Windows: Access all your music anytime, anywhere with iTunes Match
http://support.apple.com/kb/ph12492
Play or download songs from iCloud
You can play songs directly from iCloud, or you can download songs so you can play them when you’re not connected to the Internet.
If a song is available in iCloud, it has a Download button next to it.
To play the song, double-click it.
To download the song, click the Download button.
After you download a song to a computer, it remains in the computer’s iTunes library, even if you turn off iTunes Match.
To only display downloaded songs in your iTunes library, choose View > Hide Music in the Cloud. This also hides any previous iTunes Store purchases you haven’t downloaded.
For information about downloading and playing songs on an iOS device, see the documentation for the device.
Thanks for using the Apple Support Communities!
Cheers,
Braden -
I recently moved my Aperture Library file to an external hard drive. Can I now create a vault to be saved on my Time Capsule for the Aperture library on this external hard drive?
One thing to bear in mind, if you are using Time Machine on your Time Capsule and have it set so the TM backup includes your external drive, you will effectively be backing up your Aperture library twice on the same drive, once with Time Machine and once with the vault. This isn't a problem unless you start to run out of space.
Another thing to note, vaults on network drives used to be flaky (i.e. not really supported) and required workarounds to be able to use them. I'm not sure if this has changed, but I just managed to create a vault on my TC ok. -
When I try to import .olm files from my external hard drive back up, where do they go? It says on different forums they go to the "on my computer" folder but they are not there.
I go through all the instructions but then my emails do not appear. I'm starting to panic a bit!You might want to try asking on the MS Office Outlook forum - http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mac/forum/macoutlook - since those are Outlook files.
Also note which method you're using to create a backup.
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my iTunes library is on an external hard drive; how do I set it so other users (accounts) on my imac, will also have the same library, with the same playlists
Quit iTunes.
Sign into another user account.
Hold Option, launch iTunes.
Select Choose library... and select the iTunes folder on the external.
Do this for all users.
NOTE: You must quit iTunes when switching users as the library can only be opened by one user at a time.
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