Moving an iPhoto 08 Library
A few weeks ago I had a harddrive crash, but I was able to salvage my data to another ibook. I used target disk mode and I save all of my info to another MacBook. Well I have a new hardrive and all is well. I move all my data back and I feel all is well. For some reason my iPhoto 08 Library will not copy over. Whenever I try it starts to copy over (I am using Target Disk Mode) I get the message "The operation cannot be completed because you do not have sufficient privileges for some items."
The data is not corrput, because if I hold option when I load iPhoto on my macbook, i can navigate to the other laptop and open the iPhoto Library.
Can anyone help?
Download and run BatChmod on the iPhoto Library folder before copying with the settings shown here, putting your administrator login name in the owner section and Staff in the group section. You can either type in the path to the folder or just drag the folder into that field.
Or you can try copying the library to the Shared folder on the MacBook. If that is successful run BatChmod on the library there before moving into your Pictures folder.
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto (iPhoto.Library for iPhoto 5 and earlier) database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
I've created an Automator workflow application (requires Tiger or later), iPhoto dB File Backup, that will copy the selected Library6.iPhoto file from your iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder, replacing any previous version of it. It's compatible with iPhoto 6 and 7 libraries and Tiger and Leopard. iPhoto does not have to be closed to run the application, just idle. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.≤br>
Note: There now an Automator backup application for iPhoto 5 that will work with Tiger or Leopard.
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As per Apple instructions, I moved my iPhoto library to an external hard drive so that I could free up space on my full iMac. However, I was not told the last step in the process -- How do I get the iPhoto library off my iMac so I free up that memory?
And after deleting the old Library, you should start up iPhoto while holding down the Option key in order to force iPhoto to let you select your iPhoto Library that is on your external hard drive. If you start up iPhoto the usual way, it will just create a new, blank iPhoto Library in your /users/yourusername/Pictures folder on your iMac's internal hard drive.
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I moved my iPhoto Library file, now it wont work !
Hi, i was trying to tidy up my Hard Drives folder structure and moved my iPhoto Library file, which was and still is 72mb, but now when i open it, it hasnt got any photos in it ANYWHERE the file size is the same,.
I might be correct in thinking that i havent actually lost the photos that were being displayed in iPhoto, because these are still on my hard drive !.
But what can i do to get iPhoto back to where it was please.
I have even restored the file back to its original location from a backup but that doesnt work either. it is simply saying, i have to upgrade and loose all my photos ????
timwent to finder, selected 6 photos and put them in a folder in my Pictures folder.
opened up iPhoto again, the beach ball spun round a bit, but the new folder wasnt to be seen anywhere in iPhoto ?
Exactly
there is no automatic import - on photos you specifically import either from disk or from a camera are imported to iPhoto
Import them to iPhoto - drag to the iPhoto window or to the iPhoto icon in the dock or in iPhoto file menu ==> import
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i have now ticked the box "copy imported items" i then closed down iPhoto
That is good but does not solve the problem for the photos that were imported while this was not checked -- at this time it is probably best to start over with a new managed library and import all photos again
which brings me nicely to my next query, it looks to me as if ALL the pictures that got initially imported into iPhoto were all in folders. so am i correct in thinking that the pictures in my pictures folder which are NOT in a folder, will or should only be seen in iPhoto if they were in a folder when they were/are imported.
I am not sure what you are saying
But when you import a photo it is iPhoto no matter where it came from - until you import it it is not in iPhoto - finder folders make no difference and have no bearing on iPhoto -- folders in iPhoto do not hold photos, just other folders or albums
You prebably should take the iPhoto tutorials - that will save a lot of time and frustration
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Confusion about moving my iphoto library to another hard drive.
My startup drive is nearly full and I'd like to my my iPhoto library (I still have iphoto 4) and photos to another internal drive to free up some space. I've found brief help pages on how to do this, but I find them vague and unclear. Do I make an exact copy of the pictures folder on my startup drive on another drive? And then how do I get iPhoto to look there instead?
I'm about to import a whole lot of photos and I"d like to be ablt to view them all without filling up the startup drive.
Is there a detailed instruction page on how to do it? the "1.1.1 moving your iphoto library" info page was not detailed enough for me.How much "more exact" could you get when you duplicate your iPhoto Library folder?
I'm not sure what source you're relying on, but iPhoto Help describes in pretty clear terms how to 1) move your iPhoto library, 2) how to make multiple iPhoto libraries, and 3) how to switch between iPhoto libraries. Sounds like what you want to do involves 1 & 3.
I guess I don't understand your reference to 1.1.1 when you have iPhoto 4 installed. Drag your iPhoto Library folder to the intended destination, then follow the Help instructions for switching between iPhoto libraries. If all is well, delete the old iPhoto Library folder. -
Are there any best practices to consider in moving an iPhoto library from one machine to another?
I'd like to move a library from my Power Mac G5 to an iMac.
Do I simply replace the iMac's library (which has never been used) with the one I have on the G5, or is there something more detailed that needs to be done?
Many thanks.Do I simply replace the iMac's library (which has never been used) with the one I have on the G5
Yes. That's exactly how to do it.
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HT1229 Moving my IPhoto library to my external hard drive Seagate 1.5TB
My computer is an IMac late 2006. She's been running really slow and erratic. My IPhoto has over 5K photos which may be the culprit.
I have a Seagate External hard drive with 1.5 TB capacity with very little data stored. I would like to move my IPhoto library to my external hard drive, to improve the performance of my computer. I am unable to locate my external hard drive even though it is connected to the IMac. Can some one help?
Shaiboy48Suer as long as it is formatted Mac OS extended (journaled)
Moving the iPhoto library is safe and simple - quit iPhoto and drag the iPhoto library intact as a single entity to the external drive - depress the option key and launch iPhoto using the "select library" option to point to the new location on the external drive - fully test it and then trash the old library on the internal drive (test one more time prior to emptying the trash)
And be sure that the External drive is formatted Mac OS extended (journaled) (iPhoto does not work with drives with other formats) and that it is always available prior to launching iPhoto
And backup soon and often - having your iPhoto library on an external drive is not a backup and if you are using Time Machine you need to check and be sure that TM is backing up your external drive
I am not sure what this mean
I am unable to locate my external hard drive even though it is connected to the IMac
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Woah; my first iMovie '08 project ruined by moving my iPhoto library?
So I made my first project with the new iMovie last night (I actually like it a lot more for making quick movies, but will probably need final cut express to do anything complicated, but I digress...). Finished it, yay, cute little movie, took about an hour to do. All the video came out of my iPhoto library.
So this morning, I notice that my main drive is a little low on space so I moved my iPhoto library (following the iPhoto instructions) to my larger, external drive.
When I fired up iMovie again, it spent an hour regenerating all the video thumbnails, annoying, but dealable.
But now my project video only has the thumbnails. Every clip has a little exclamation point on it, which I assume means it can't find the video clip to back it, which is terribly frustrating since it's still in the same place in the iPhoto library, just in a different place on disk.
So is iMovie writing the absolute file location into the movie project, so if you -ever- move your iPhoto library or change your disk layout your movie becomes useless? That seems like a pretty major oversight. There doesn't seem to be any way to "re-link" the video clips to their new locations or fix this problem. Brilliant.
So I pulled out plutil, and luckily the Project file is a binary plist (scared me for a minute that it was just a binary closed data file). The file locations for the videos are referenced as such:
<string>~/Pictures/iPhoto Library/Originals/2007/Vacation TX-1/MVI_0565.AVI</string>
So that's a -double- pain. not only is it referencing the absolute library location, it's referencing the -old- location within the library. See, I changed the name of that event in iPhoto from "Vacation TX-1" to just "Oregon Vacation", so now within the library the file's in a different spot as well.
So it seems like, unless I'm missing something, if you use a video from iPhoto you can never reorganize that video in iPhoto or change libraries? That seems like a major fix that's needed.
I'm going to try symlinking the library location to the new one, to see if as long as iMovie can find the library it can sort out the renaming. If that doesn't work, then I guess I'll be manually hacking the plist.
Am I missing an easy and obvious way to do this within iMovie?So, adding the symlink didn't help, still missing. Upgrading to 7.0.1 didn't help.
Plist surgery did help and brought the project back to life, with one minor quirk, my thumbnails in the video editing window were gone. So the "Thumbnails" file in the bundle is a regular plist...it appears to contain the thumbnails themselves, keyed by the filename. I tried changing those paths to match as well, but that didn't do it. They are the absolute paths, with the "~" for homdir expanded. Since I left the "~" alone in the other file and just symlinked it, I wondered if maybe the resolving was different so I changed it to the absolute path of the movie file, but that didn't work either.
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Looking at the files, this doesn't just go for iPhoto videos...it seems also apply to stills (although since those get rendered and included in the project bundle that might not be quite as a big a deal as long as you never want to change them) and music/sound effect files. -
Must have done something wrong..
1. formatted external disk to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) - required a partition, but that went fine. Entire new external disk was included in the partition formatted to Mac OS Extneded (journaled).
2. moved iPhoto library to new external disk
3. Holding Option key down, opened iPhoto
4. Choose library feature appeared, however when new library function option appeared and "choose library" selected, the iPhoto folder appearing in the new external drive was greyed out and not able to be selected. Therefore the default library remains the original iphoto library on the Mac.
I've moved the original iphoto library to the trash and then tried to start iPhoto. A message comes up that the iPhoto is in the trash and needs to be pulled out before iPhoto can start (clearly the new iphoto library on the external drive is not being seen.
Can anyone suggest where I went awry? Thanks!Try trash the com.apple.iPhoto.plist file from the HD/Users/ Your Name / library / preferences folder.
(On 10.7 or later: Hold the option (or alt) key while clicking on the Go menu in Finder to access the User Library)
(Remember you'll need to reset your User options afterwards. These include minor settings like the window colour and so on. Note: If you've moved your library you'll need to point iPhoto at it again.)
What's the plist file?
For new users: Every application on your Mac has an accompanying plist file. It records certain User choices. For instance, in your favourite Word Processor it remembers your choice of Default Font, on your Web Browser is remembers things like your choice of Home Page. It even recalls what windows you had open last if your app allows you to pick up from where you left off last. The iPhoto plist file remembers things like the location of the Library, your choice of background colour, whether you are running a Referenced or Managed Library, what preferences you have for autosplitting events and so on. Trashing the plist file forces the app to generate a new one on the next launch, and this restores things to the Factory Defaults. Hence, if you've changed any of these things you'll need to reset them. If you haven't, then no bother. Trashing the plist file is Mac troubleshooting 101.
Then try select it again. -
My macbook has been telling me that it is running out of space. Therefore I moves the iphoto library to an extarnal hard drive. How do I free space on my macbook now? If I erase the files/library (I don´t now witch of them?) from the internal hard drive, will they still be there on the external one?
Moving iPhoto Library - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1229. and http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2506.
First, set up finder to show your external drive on the desktop. To do this, click finder in your dock, then click the word finder beside the apple. Select preferences. When the preferences window opens, select the "general" tab, and under "show these items on the desktop" ensure you check off "external disks"
Connect an external drive. You should see an icon appear on the desktop.
In order to move an iPhoto Library to this external drive, the drive must be formatted for a mac. To check the format of the drive, open up disk utility (applications / utilities). In the disk utility window, you will see the external drive on the left. Select it. Then go to the "erase" tab. This tab will show the current format of this drive. It must be "Mac OS Extended Journaled", or the iPhoto Library will not allow you to move it to that drive.
As long as it is formatted correctly, simply click finder in the dock and go into your pictures folder. Here you should see your iPhoto Library. Simply drag the Library to the external drives icon on the desktop. This will start to copy. It may take some time to copy the library to the drive.
Once the copy is finished, you can then drag the iPhoto Library in the pictures folder, to the trash. -
I was trying to clean up my startup disk and get some space freed up. I moved a bunch of stuff to my dropbox (temporary measure until I get a backup drive). I didn't realize my iphoto library is actually in my documents folder. I copy the whole folder to dropbox, and then delete the contents on my hard drive. When I go to dropbox and look at my iphoto library, it's empty. Are my photos just gone? Can they be recovered? HELLLLPPP!!!!
By default your iPhoto library is in the pictures folder not the documents folder - you should have it in the pictures folder to avoid errors like this
You probably lost your iPhoto library as generally the iphoto library is corrupted often beyond repair by putting it on DropBox - as a future note NEVER delete any important files until you have verified that you have a good copy -- and also for the future purchase an external drive formatted Mac OS extended (jourmnaled) roughly 2 to 2 1/2 times the size of your main drive and start running TimeMachine all the time so you have hourly local backups
If you do not have a backup then all you can do it drag the iPhoto library back form DropBox to the pictures folder and hold down the option key while launching iPhoto and select the library n the pictures folder - if that does not work then you will have to start over - hopefully your Masters folder is intact and has all of you original photos - to start over drag it to the desktop, trash the messed up library and launch iPhoto to create a new library and drag the folders of photos from the Masters folder to iPhoto to import them
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i was thinking of clear some space for my macbook, so i moved some images form picture to window disk, but i accidentally moved iphoto library too. And i didn't realised it would affect iphoto, until i opened iphoto finding all the images were gone. How can i get the images back?
This might help: Rebuilding the iPhoto library
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I want to delete the photos on the iMac's hard drive but I want all the copies on the EHD; to free up space on the iMac. I experimented by deleting one photo in the iPhoto library on iMac but when I checked the EHD, it was deleted there, too. How can I delete photos from iMac w/out deleting from EHD?
Photo Library icon that sits on my desktop
Do a Get Info in the Finder on that, is it an Alias pointing to the external drive?
Open the iPhoto Library folder on your actual internal drive in the Finder, is that deleed pic stil there? -
Hi there,
some days ago I purchased an Airport Extreme router with disk to move my iphoto library there and free space of my crowded macbook pro.
Everything was working well (iphoto takes a little bit longer to start and quit) but now I can't see my photo library through my apple tv.
It keeps loading the library forever.
Is there any problem doing that?
Thanks
jmHelp,
Thanks for the quick answer and for the welcome.
Yes I selected it in the iTunes sharing options (in fact several times, with resets in between just in case)
I think that it's related to the size of the library (more than 8 gb) and e fact that is in a remote disk (in the AirPort Extreme)
Hope anyone has the solution :-))
Thanks again!
Jm -
Anyone else had this problem? Anyone know how to fix it?
I haven't deleted my photos of my computer's hard drive yet so can go back to using that if it will fix my problem
ThanksNo that is not a problem and no one has reported it here
to change the library depress the option key and launch iPhoto and use the select library command - see if the behavior is the same on both frives
How did you move the iPhoto library to the external drive?
What format is the external drive?
LN -
I tried downloading AND RUNNING the upgrader and I'm stuck in an infinite loop. After running the upgrader from the utilities folder, it looks like things are working. Then a window pops up asking me to launch iphoto to complete the upgrade. After launching iphoto, iphoto goes back to the original error message that I need to download the upgrader.
I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling the upgrader multiple times to no avail. I've also tried dragging my iphoto library from the external hard drive it is housed on to many different areas before trying to launch the upgrader, none of them worked. The external hard drive format is Mac OS Extended (Journaled). I also tried dragging the iphoto library folder in the pictures file onto my new Macbook right next to my new iphoto library folder. This allowed me to open up iphoto (Yay!) but of course, none of the photos from my old iphoto library were in their, even when the old library was selected.
I've read what seems like hundreds of posts on this same issue, but can't seem to find a solution that works for me. I want to simply transfer my iphoto library from an external hard drive (my old macbook just crashed, so this is the only option) to my new macbook, keeping the albums, slideshows, and organization intact.
I would appreciate any help or feedback. Thank you in advance for reading this!Option 1
Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild. Choose to Repair Database. If that doesn't help, then try again, this time using Rebuild Database.
If that fails:
Option 2
Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. (In early versions of Library Manager it's the File -> Rebuild command. In later versions it's under the Library menu.)
This will create an entirely new library. It will then copy (or try to) your photos and all the associated metadata and versions to this new Library, and arrange it as close as it can to what you had in the damaged Library. It does this based on information it finds in the iPhoto sharing mechanism - but that means that things not shared won't be there, so no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your events, albums and keywords, faces and places back.
Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one.
Regards
TD
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