Moving iPhoto pictures to an external HD and then backing the HD u on time capsule using time machine
I have reached capacity on my 250 gb HD that is in my MacBook Pro. The majority of the space is consumed by iPhoto pictures and 45second videos. So I bought a 4 tb external HD to expand capacity. How do I put the pictures and videos on the external HD? And, please, explain it to me like I'm a 2-year-old: step-by-step.
Once that is done, can this setup be configured such that when I insert my SD card of 150. Baby photos from the previous day and upload them to iPhoto, can they save directly to external HD, or will I need to manually move them there?
Once that is all done, I need to run time machine from my wireless time capsule on the external HD (as well as the internal HD). Can I do that? Is there any real risk of iPhoto file corruption? And,how do I do it (again, please explain like I am a 2-year-old)?
Thanks!
To move the Library:
Make sure the drive is formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled). You can do this with Disk Utility.
1. Quit iPhoto
2. Copy the iPhoto Library from your Pictures Folder to the External Disk.
3. Hold down the option (or alt) key while launching iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library' and navigate to the new location. From that point on this will be the default location of your library.
4. Test the library and when you're sure all is well, trash the one on your internal HD to free up space.
iPhoto will always use the last-opened library, so when you import photos, that's where they will go- onto the external drive.
There is no risk of library corruption while running a back up.
I'd ask the specifics of how to do it on the Using Mac OS X forum for your version of the OS.
Regards
TD
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