Is it possible to maintain my iPhoto images on Time Capsule?

As it is, I have 130 GB of images and movie on the hard drive of my MacBook Pro. Everytime I attach my camera by USB to my Mac, by default, the images flood into my hard drive. Is there a way to assign that transfer to a folder on my Time Capsule instead? I have a back up of everything on my Time Capsule. I would like to delete my huge iPhoto folder on my Mac if I can make this work.

Several reasons not to..
When you delete the library on the MBP you also will cause TM to eventually delete it from the backup.
Anything stored on the TC.. is not backed up and there is no way to automate backup from the TC. Your entire library will be sitting there waiting for doomsday!! And make no mistake.. doomsday is coming. I feel like a prophet of doom this morning.
Also it is very easy to corrupt a library on a network drive.. due to the TC nature as a backup device.. you will get continual errors as it takes time to spin up and spin down again. When you start the computer the library will not be available.. and even half way through it is so easy to corrupt a project by sending it to a disk which suffers a wireless glitch.
Generally recommended method is a USB drive plugged into the MBP.. firewire or thunderbolt even better.
TM can still back up the library to TC.
I am not sure what else you can do.. ask in the iphoto section as there are more issues than you know.. and the problem is not just suitability of the TC but how iphoto works.

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Hello,
I have my iPhoto library in time capsule. Everything is ok with my mac, view, edit, stream, etc.
But some times I dont bring my Mac home, and I would like access my library from my iPad and if possible stream to apple tv, like i do it from Mac.
Since its not possible to access my library with iPhoto for iOS, is there any app that does it?
Thanks,
ruirego

No. The two iPhoto apps have only their name in common. There's no interaction between the two possible. You can send a feature requres to Apple via http://www.apple.com/feedback/.
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The unplugging was of power, if you were unplugging ethernet .. that will not do anything.
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C17 http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
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How do I restore an iPhoto library from Time Capsule

My iMac was stolen. I have a MacBook Air running Yosemite version 10.10.2. The iPhoto Library was not on the MacBook. How do I restore my iPhoto Library from a Time Machine backup on my Time Capsule onto my MacBook? I am using iPhoto version 9.6.1.
Two complications:
1. I have several hundred photos from a different iPhoto library on my MacBook.
2. I think the iPhoto library that is hopefully on my Time Capsule is too big to fit on my MacBook. I have 50 GB free space remaining on a 256 GB SSD.
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If the library to be restored is too big for your boot drive you'll need to get an external HD, formatted OS X Extended (journaled) with ownership set to be ignored, and restore the iPhoto Library to it according to the instructions in the following screenshot:
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To free up space on my MacBook Pro, I backed up my iPhoto library to Time Machine before moving the library to a seperate external hard-drive. My EHD was excluded from automatic time machine backups, and when it subsequently got unrepairably damaged about 4 weeks later I lost about 4 weeks of photos - luckily not a big problem. I checked time-machine and my old iPhoto library was still there in an earlier backup, not the latest - naturally that shows the current state of my MPB without an iPhoto library.
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For months I've been considering buying a Time Capsule. I have several questions before I spend the money and I'm finding contradicting points in the discussion groups and other websites.
I have a MacBook with a 60GB HD and I'm rapidly running out of space, buying another computer with a bigger HD is not an option right now, so my first question is: besides hosting the Time Machine backups, can I use Time Capsule to have a second iTunes and iPhoto Libraries? I know that whatever files I have in the TC wouldn't be backed up with Time Machine, but I mainly want to transfer all the music and pictures that I have on CD's, so I wouldn't mind not having them backed up. Would I be able to access those pictures and music files from my laptop?... How about from the Apple TV (if I ever get one)?
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First thing I would say is make sure you buy the new Time Capsule - I bought the old version and had a ton of connectivity issues - the new one has been great. You are right that you cannot partition the Time Capsule harddrive via disk utility (you can do it if you open the capsule, remove the harddrive, etc - but this voids the warranty), and you can't allocate time machine disk space either so it will eventually fill up the entire tc harddrive. However, you can attach a usb harddrive and then use that as a file server - it acts just like the built-in drive and can be shared/accessed over wan as well. So in this setup you would have the TC drive for backup and the usb drive for files/pictures/music - you could do the reverse of this too (usb for backup, tc for files).
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