Run FCP on an external hard drive?

Can you run this program on a external harddrive, let alone any programs?? Thanks

But you can move a lot of the extras (junk and otherwise) to an external (thanks to Jerry Hoffman):
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=3754261?

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Running itunes from an external hard drive

Hi there,
My itunes library is getting a little too large for my iMac to handle (nearing 500gb of my 1TB hard drive, leaving little space for all my other software and documents) and I'd like to move the itunes library and run it from an external hard drive.
I've read the following link and am clear on the procedure...
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1449
Sure, I can go through the process and see what happens, however, I thought I'd ask to see if anyone else has done something similar and am curious as to whether they encountered any issues / have any words of wisdom to impart?!
I have an Apple TV which syncs with my iTunes, as well as an iPad and an iPhone. The iPad and iPhone sync when connected, but the Apple TV syncs over WiFi...
Will I have any side affects by moving my library to an external hard drive?
I plan to purchase a drive with FireWire 800. That said, I do have a 2TB TimeCapsule, but I cant seem to find any decent information on how to use it as an external hard drive...(even though, I believe, it says you can do so in the 'sales bumf' on the Apple store)
Your thoughts/advice/comments wold be appreciated!
Cheers,
D

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How to run itunes off an external hard drive using the new itunes

I have windows 8. I installed the new itunes and I want to know how to run itunes off an external hard drive.
thank you for your help.

Same way as before, hold down shift as you start iTunes, Choose or Create a library.
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How do I move a partition on my mac hard drive, to an external hard drive so that i can run windows when the external hard drive is connected

Are you talking about a Bootcamp partition? You can't boot Windows from an external drive.

Can i download and run itunes from an external hard drive

can i download and run itunes from an external hard drive?

The iTunes application should be on the boot drive but you can keep the iTunes library on an external.
hold Shift when launching iTune sand select Create library and select the external.
This will create an iTunes folder on the external with all the library files and all media will also go into this folder.

How do I run iTunes off an external hard drive?

I have an 80GB laptop which is getting pretty full, so I've added a 500GB external hard drive with the intention of transferring my music files (amongst other things) to the external drive, freeing up space on the laptop. This has proved (almost) more trouble than it's worth...
Initially I simply copied iTunes over to the external drive using Windows Explorer. Surfing the apple discussions, however, convinced me that I ought to do the "consolidate library" thing as well (which resulted in me duplicating the files on the external drive). Finally sorted that out, deleted the music files on the hard drive, and discovered that my music library was allegedly "empty". Further surfing on apple discussions made me decide to copy the various iTunes library files from the main iTunes folder back to the hard drive. This has resulted in iTunes being unable to open, due to an "unknown error".
I'm ready to give up! Anyone out there successfully running iTunes off their external drive? How do you do it?

Follow up: My next move was to copy my iTunes folder back onto the hard drive. I had only been doing this for ten minutes (the process took twelve hours the previous time I did it) when iTunes was up and running again, and indeed "seeing" all my music files on the external drive. I cancelled the copy process, deleted all the newly copied iTunes music files from the hard drive, leaving all other files intact, and everything seems fine. The problem is now solved, but I'd nevertheless be grateful if someone could explain to me what was going on!
Thanks
Ian

How to run data merge from external hard drive?

I attempting to merge a large document (~4,000 records) in CS3. The document that I'm merging the data into is also large (an 8 page newsletter). I have exported the pages of the document as a PDF and the imported them again (therefore minimizing the data/links/etc.) but the amount of memory it was consuming was still crashing the program when I ran it on my computer. I bought a TB external hard drive and would like to run the merge from there so that it is using that memory/RAM instead of my computer's. I moved the indesign file, all the pdf links, and the .csv file that is the data source to the external hard drive. That didn't solve the problem. Is the merge now running from the external hard drive and still not working or is there something further I need to be doing to get InDesign using the external hard drive memory instead of my computer's memory? Any advice would be wonderful, thanks!

I attempting to merge a large document (~4,000 records) in CS3. The document that I'm merging the data into is also large (an 8 page newsletter). I have exported the pages of the document as a PDF and the imported them again (therefore minimizing the data/links/etc.) but the amount of memory it was consuming was still crashing the program when I ran it on my computer. I bought a TB external hard drive and would like to run the merge from there so that it is using that memory/RAM instead of my computer's. I moved the indesign file, all the pdf links, and the .csv file that is the data source to the external hard drive. That didn't solve the problem. Is the merge now running from the external hard drive and still not working or is there something further I need to be doing to get InDesign using the external hard drive memory instead of my computer's memory? Any advice would be wonderful, thanks!

Running Disk Utility off External Hard drive

To run "repair disk" in disk utility on my internal hard drive I'm supposed to insert my Install DVD, restart my mac and run disk utility - however running this program off the disk is much slower than running it off my 800firewire external hard drive. I've tried a few different ways of going about this:
1) Partitioning my hard drive in two (both HFS+) with more than enough room for the DVD, I've tried both making a Disk Image of the Install DVD and dragging it into the source field in the "restore" tab and dragged my Install partition into the destination field, after that was complete, I restarted my computer while holding the "alt" key I wasn't even offered the option to boot to my external hard drive
2) I've also tried after partitioning the external drive, in the restore tab just dragging the Install DVD (not the disk image) from the left of the disk utility window into the "source field" and again the partition into the destination field, and when restarting both with the "alt" key and by going to system preferences -> start up disk and choosing my external drive to boot from, I was still unable to boot off my drive.
Please let me know if anyone has any suggestions! This would be such a big help for me since I'm constantly helping people with diagnostic issues with their macs and this would save me so much time. Thanks in advance
George

I'm not sure why you can't make a bootable copy of the installer DVD using Disk Utility but as Niel suggests, it is much better to install the OS on a partition on the external drive using the DVD & then use that instead of a 'clone' of the DVD as a boot source to run utilities. There are several reasons for this:
1. You can update the installed version of the OS on the external to take advantage of any improvements, including to Disk Utility, that may be released in the future.
2. The version of Snow Leopard that runs from the DVD is a special one that among other things is optimized for read-only media. For instance, it doesn't write log files to the startup disk since it doesn't expect that to be possible.
3. You can include other utilities on the external & easily customize it to your liking. For instance, configure it for automatic login to an admin user account, drop Disk Utility into that account's login items & it will automatically launch at the end of the boot process. You can do the same with shell scripts or Applescript applications for just about as much automation as your scripting skills & imagination can dream up.
However, one thing to keep in mind: since a HD is not read-only but a DVD is, you can never be as certain that your external is as reliable as the DVD, since it is possible for something to change or corrupt files on the HD but short of physical damage the DVD is immutable.

Run windows 7 on external hard drive?

I'm purchasing a MAC mini to replace my G4 and PC. I would like to have Windows available for several applications (mainly for the kids) and am wondering if I could install windows on an external hard drive and run it through the Mini. I really don't want to partition the Mini's HD for both OS as I prefer to stay as far away from windows as possible. Thanks.

It all depends on the PC motherboard and BIOS, I don't even think MS has done anything draconian or such, and it is possible and actually easy, with the right X58 say motherboards (most). My Intel DX58SO I used to install via built in eSATA.
There is nothing wrong with or reason to fear Windows, but if kids want to play games, a VM isn't going to cut it. Buy a cheap mini just for Windows, or a PC, or run OS X off external drive and use the internal for Windows only.
Windows 7 + MS Security Essentials is solid and best yet and as easy to use and not all that different than Mac OS (and maybe has had more testing even). Hopefully computers can be seen for what they are, used as tools, objectively.

How to run Boot Camp on External Hard Drive?

I use my mid-2012 11" MacBook Air for gaming and school work. My hard drive is filling up fast, and I was hoping I could use an external hard drive and Boot Camp to run Windows for my games, thus freeing up most of my hard drive.
My questions are:
1) Is this possible?
2) What equipment would I need to do it?
3) What would I be looking for in an external hard drive for this purpose?
4) If I did this, would I be able to unplug and replug my external hard drive without causing a problem?
5) What version of Windows should I use?
The program I will be using for my games is Steam.

For the MacBook Pro Retina and Windows 8.1 the setup procedure was the following:
Step -1: Make sure your Thunderbot drive works, stable and reliable.
Step 0. Make sure you have a complete Time Machine backup of you Mac OS hard drive. Seriously. Very easy to mess things up completely.
Step 1. Get a Windows 8.1 64 bit iso. You might want to try it out first before committing money to it. For that you can download an official 90 day Windows 8.1 Enterprise evaluation from Microsoft. It's somewhat hidden from mainstream experience, but search engines help you there.
It is important to use 64 bit, as 32 bit will not work.
Step 2. Get a USB flash drive. 8 GB USB flash drive worked fine for me.
Step 3. On Window box or from virtualized Windows machine make a bootable setup USB. I have used Rufus for that. Make sure you have selected "GTP partition scheme for UEFI computer" and FAT32.
I've tried MBR partition scheme, but it hasn't worked for me.
Step 4. Once bootable setup USB is created, shutdown everything. Plugin your external thunderbolt drive and bootable setup USB flash drive. Hold ALT (Option key) to choose from what thing to boot.
Step 5. If you are lucky you will see yellow "EFI Boot". Yellow usually meens 'external'. That meens you are going to boot into setup from USB flash drive. Go for it.
Step 6. In 5-10 minutes you should get into Window setup. Whenever you are asked, always choose "Custom" or so, till you get to the hard drive selection screen. You should see list of many partitions coming from 2 drives - one internal and one external.
WARNING: Be super careful here!!!!!
Step 7. Convince Windows to install itself on the drive that is external. You might have to delete all of the partitions of the external drive and leave it completely unpartitioned. This will make Windows autoconvert it's partition scheme to GTP.
WARNING: Think twice before deleting any partitions; do not delete any partitions on your internal drive.
Step 8. Let Windows install itself. I recommend turning off windows autoupdate for now, especially drivers part of it, since Windows 8.1 autoudate seams to be pushing buggy drivers at the moment.
Step 9. If you are SUPER lucky after reboot (and holding ALT/Option) you should see gray "EFI boot" that will boot Windows from external drive.
Step 10. Download and install Apple latest bootcamp drivers, things should work normally once those drivers are installed.
Step 11. Enjoy!

Can I run Panther off an external hard drive

Hi all,
First of all, let me preface the following with this caveat: I'd describe myself as a novice when it comes to all things MAC, so please bear with me.
I read earlier posts on running OS X on an external drive, but I have a slightly specialized problem. My hard drive on my Powerbook seems to have an error (I tried wiping it clean and reloading Panther, but it gives me disk error messages part way through the process). Instead of taking the computer in and having an internal drive placed in it, I'm wondering if I could purchase an external hard drive and use that as I would my internal one by putting OSX on it. Is this possible at all? Or am I not conceptualizing it properly?
I'd appreciate any help you could give me on this, as well as any suggestions about repairing the disk error (beyond simply replacing it).
A million thanks.

"Is this possible at all?"
That's entirely possible. Simply hook up the drive, then boot from the Panther install CD/DVD and isntall it on that drive. Make sure it's a FireWire drive though.
However if your computer is out of warranty, you can replace the internal drive yourself, with instructions from:
http://www.ifixit.com/Guide
Of course if it's still under warranty, have Apple fix it for free.

Running Lightroom - NAS or external Hard drive?

I am a photographer currently running a windows laptop with LR and PS (CC) and using the internal hard drive on my Laptop to store all my images (24k of the blighters!).
I currently do all my editing on this laptop but it is starting to 'creak' under the weight of all those images. I have decided I want to move all the images off and on to a storage/backup configuration and use the internal hard drive of the laptop purely for processing power to drive photoshop and lightroom etc.
I have also recently bought a Mac desktop computer which I run from my upstairs home office/bedroom and have just installed LR/PS (CC) on it as well - but havent started using it yet!
I will probably do most of my editing on the MAC upstairs but there will also be occasion where I will want to use my laptop with Lightroom for when I do tethered photography shoots and to do a bit of editing when i'm away in hotels and occasionally when im being lazy and want to edit downstairs in my front room at home.
I have looked at the option of getting 2 external hard drives with an enclosure and plugging them into the back of the MAC (USB3) and using 'carbon copy clone' so the 2 disks are mirrored.
I would then use another external hardrive to plugin into the back of the enclosure to do a weekly backup (take this off site).
The only problem with this is that when I want to use my Laptop I have to take the hard drives out of the MAC and then plugin them
into the Laptop it in order to access the latest catalog and images? - and taking the hard drives and enclosure around with me kind of defeats the point of having the laptop?
So the options I have considered is to either:
Add a 'WD My Book' off the external hardrives so I can access the catalog/images wirelessly from the cloud from my laptop - but not sure how this would work and also
       how would the MAC get its latest catalog changes from the WD My Book (after I have made changes to the catalog when using the laptop)?
   2. The other option I recently looked at was the NAS route....which kind of makes sense as presumably there will only
       be one catalog residing on the NAS which I download to the either the Laptop or Mac depending on which I want to use
       and then access the images from the NAS when I do my editing. Presumabaly I then have to do some sort of synchronisation
       of the catalog when I have finished editing and move between the laptop and MAC?
The other question is how do I access the NAS? I dont currently have a home network. I do have a wireless
router in my front room downstairs from which I access broadband internet - I then use a repeater (poor signal) when im using the MAC in the office upstairs
- wouldnt accessing the NAS wirelessly be slow? (Dont really want to start using cables around the house)
Will there be probelms moving betweek Windows and Apple OS environments?
Any ideas or help with this would be hugley appreciated as my brain is starting to fry and I just want to get back to taking photographs :-) !!
Thanks in advance
Chris

If all you want to do on the laptop is a bit of editing and then print when you get home, the Smart Preview method described above will be fine.
There is no problem going from windows to mac.
The problem you might find is that when you come home from a job, you need to transfer the files to the external drive and then show LR on the mac where the files are...pretty easy but you have to remember to do it before you start mucking around.
The other solution that a FEW of us use, is to put the LR catalog files on Dropbox. This allows you to have the current catalog always on both computers. The only drawback I know of is that you absolutely must carefully let the machine update dropbox before you close it (or at least before you open the file on the other computer). If you do that and use smart preview, you will find you can do almost anything. Remember, you still need to get the files to the external drive when you get home (first step) and then use LR on the mac to "find folders"
If you DO want to ocassionally print from the laptop, you could carry a USB key with the original files copied to it from the external drive (I often take the last couple of months worth with me)...name the USB drive the same name as the external drive and LR will no know the difference...
It feels complicated at first, but once you get into the LR mindset it will work just fine.
Tom

Running Snow Leopard from External Hard Drive

I have some teacher software that lion won't run. It was suggested to me to run snow leopard from an external hard drive. I have an external WD hardrive for mac. Can someone share with me on how to do it?
Thanks!

Have a look here
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1948

MacBook freezing and crashing/running slow, problem with external hard drive

I've been having some issues for the past couple months with my laptop randomly freezing, usually when I have a lot happening. I've ended up having to hard-restart it several times because it will just hang and I can't get into the menu at all to force quit things. In the past couple days, it's now started crashing completely, although restarting okay. This last time, though, it crashed while I was trying to empty the trash and since then it's been crazy slow and not very responsive.I tried running disk utility and ccleaner, and although they repaired some stuff they didn't fix the problem.
I think iTunes might be the issue. I was trying to move my music library when this last thing started. I have it all on an external hard drive, and I was trying to move it from one folder to another. I tried repairing the external hard drive with disk utility to see if that was the issue, but now my files have all vanished and the external appears blank.
I also recently installed BootCamp, if that makes a difference.
I'm mostly just really unsure what to do. I don't want to do anything to the external because I need to recover the stuff that was on it, but I also need my laptop to be usable.

Thanks for the response. I tried booting in recovery mode and running disk utility again and that seemed to help. It's still hanging when I plug in the external hard drive but otherwise seems to be working okay. My main issue now is the invisible files. I tried booting in Windows, planning to install Recuva to try and get the files back. However, they show up fine there. This is a relief but I'm not totally sure what is happening. I'm guessing the disk has somehow mounted incorrectly on the mac portion but I'm not sure how to fix that. I'm about to restart on the other partition and see what's going on there.

Running Final Cut7 from external hard drive with 15" Retina having FCX on it's drive...

Hi All,
I ended up (unexpectedly) having to lay my 15" standard MBP to rest and stepping up to 15" Retina. Problem; coming from Final Cut 7 with many projects and external hard drives for clients with FC7-handled media that still needs to live on for future projects and updates to existing timelines/sequences. I need to install Final Cut X on the Retina but still need to recruit media from these external drives (I have each of my clients buy and external hard drive for their media to "live" on).
My idea is to install FC 7 on an external hard drive and run it from there. The main goal is for the next year or so, to be able to bridge the world between former clients who have years worth of clips and FC sequences/timelines they just update each year, to new clients today.
Thoughts? I really don't want to mess this up.....yikes!
Thanks!
ClemKins

The applications are just going to run faster on your 256GB internal 'drive' than if installed on an external - if, indeed, they COULD be installed on an external (there are a lot of files inserted into you Libraries that the applications need to run).
If you don't have it in your budget to buy some Thunderbolt drives for swap space, I'm assuming that you can allocate swap space on an external (I know that I do with Photoshop)? That would cut down on swap space used on your internal.
256GB should be more than enough - even though I have a 512GB SSD I really am only (now, anyway) using about 140GB on it and I'm running the entire Adobe CS6 suite and quite a number of other drive-heavy apps. So 256GB should be a worry.
As I said, I have all of my apps installed on my internal drive and use two Thunderbolt external drives as 'working' drives - you should be able to do the same with whatever connections you have to your external drives (just will be a little slower than Thunderbolt). Keep your apps on your internal - 256GB is really enough.
Good luck,
Clinton

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