Saving pics to an external hard drive?

I have thousands of pictures on a couple of different macs. It takes up a TON of memory on my computers. I would like to save all of the pictures to an wireless external hard drive, and delete them off of my macs. I want to be able to access them wirelessly from any of my computers and manipulate the photos in Iphoto. Is this possible? If so can anyone help me with what I need to get it set up?

A strong warning: If you're trying to edit the Library (that is, make albums, move photos around, keyword, make books or slideshows etc.) or edit individual photos in it via Wireless be very careful. Dropouts are a common fact of wireless networking, and should one occur while the app is writing to the database then your Library will be damaged. Simply, I would not do this with my Libraries.
Regards
TD

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If you are already using the External Hard Drive for something else and it is formatted MS-DOS FAT-32 as most off the shelf Externals are, then you can drag & drop any files that are under 4GB to it including your iPhoto and iTunes Libraries.
For iPhoto see > iPhoto: How to move the Library folder to a new location
For iTunes see > iTunes for Mac: Moving your iTunes Media folder
Although it is a lot simpler, easier and safer to just make a fully bootable backup of your entire Internal Hard Drive with Carbon Copy Cloner - Home or SuperDuper! and then update it weekly.
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Saving movies to an external Hard drive

I'm confused by all the alternatives to saving my projects and/or events. I have a 500 Gig external hard drive on which I would like to back up my material in order to avoid all the clutter and clips on my iMac ( I use iMovie 11) which I can then presumably delete after backing up, but then import again if required from the external H/D. I am just using up a whole lot of space on my computer with all the movie files.
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2) Under the "share" option should I use "export using quick time" ? What is the difference ?
3) I realise the importance of keeping the raw video the projects point to, so does the actual EVENT have to be finalised in some way before saving ?
4) I have uploaded a few movies onto Youtube (Restricted viewing) and they are automatically converted to MP4 presumably prior to publishing. Does the same thing happen when saving or archiving to an external HD ?
5) Is there any advantage in converting the finished project to another file type before exporting ?
6) When importing back into iMovie, does it have to be any particular file type ?
7) Is there anyway I can separate the events from the projects when saving externally ?
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To move events and projects to an external drive, follow the instructions here.
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4141
To SHARE a movie to the external drive, use SHARE/EXPORT MOVIE or SHARE/EXPORT USING QUICKTIME.

HT1351 I upgraded from Vista to Windows 7. I saved my iTunes on external hard drive and reinstalled them. My iTunes no longer recognizes my device - a 5th gen. iPod. I can's synch

I upgraded my Dell computer from Vista to Windows 7. I saved my iTunes library on an external hard drive. I somehow managed to erase them from my iPod. Now my songs won't play on the Dell and my iPod is not "recognized" as a device by my computer. I have "reset" the iPod by toggling the lock and holding down the menu and center button at once, but still no luck. How can I get my songs from my Dell back to my iPod?

At a guess you followed the process in HT1364 - iTunes for Windows: Moving your iTunes Media folder which would have moved the media folder to a new path of your choice. This process leaves the library database files back in the original location of <User's Music>\iTunes. Often people assume that all they need is now on the external drive and wipe the internal drive, or discard their old computer, before backing up the all important iTunes folder. If you have a backup of your user's profile folder from before the upgrade the iTunes library folder should be in there somewhere. Restore it to <User's Music> and your original library should pop back into existence. The external drive would need to have the same drive letter that it had previously.
A more effective way to relocate the library is to move the entire iTunes folder to the external drive, then hold down shift when starting iTunes and keep holding until asked to choose or create a library. You would then choose the file iTunes Library.itl in the iTunes folder on the external drive. If this is the way you moved the library before then that is how you should now reconnect to it. Changing the media folder in preferences doesn't change which .itl database file is opened, nor does double-clicking on an .itl file directly.
If you no longer have the original .itl file then you will have to build a new library and import the media to it. If you need to do this I would recommend you create a new library at F:\iTunes, then move your existing media folders inside F:\iTunes\iTunes Media before importing. This will avoid the creation of duplicates and make sure the library is in the correct shape going forwards.
If you have an iPod or iOS device my scripts ImportDevicePlaylists and SyncStats may well let you recover ratings, play counts & playlists from the device.
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tt2

Saving itunes files to external hard drive

Ok, hopefully someone can help me with this:
I have already saved my cd collection (nearly 8000 songs) onto an external hard drive that has over 90 gb using WMP. I am trying to convert the wma files to mp3's to put them on itunes so I can get them on my new ipod. I installed itunes onto the external harddrive hoping that when the files converted they would stay on the external harddive.
For whatever reason, when the files are converted, they go onto my C drive (which only has about 15 gb) so I can't get all of my files converted without filling up the disc.
What I need to know is how I can move the converted files over to my external harddrive and possibly change the prompt on itunes as to where to save those converted files while still keeping those files playable.
If what is mentioned above is possible, please let me know how I can do that. If not, do I have to reinstall itunes and what in specific should I do in the install process to get the files saved to where I want them?

Mark
I am having difficulties saving my music collection on to an external hard drive or on to ZIP disks. How do you do this? The help section on Itunes only talks about saving to a CD or DVD.
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All work from Adobe CC by saving files in an external hard drive...

I'm new into this community and my question to all CC users are: If I decide to save my PhotoShop, Illustrator, Flash, Premiere, etc... work on an external hard drive, would Adobe allow me to do so or "I Must" save my files on the cloud?

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I have saved a couple of DVDs directly in my iTunes folders and can play them through iTunes and my Apple TV but I would like to save all of my DVD collection onto an external hard drive because of a large file sizes and then play them through iTunes and Apple TV as well, I'm unsure how this will work on a
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Thanks for your reply, but is this not the same method for when when you buy a CD, you import a CD into iTunes and then play it through your IOS devices, is it not the same for DVD's?
I image at some point in the future Apple will have a version of itunes match for films.

Saving photos to an external hard drive

My mac keeps telling me the start up disk is nearly full 'make space by deleting files' so i bought an external hard drive and saved all word documents to it and deleted them from the mac and all seems fine (although the start up disk is apparently still nearly full). iphoto is another matter. I transferred the photos and all seemed well and good, then i trialed deleting one or two from the mac and they deleted from the external hard drive too. I've tried it with the drive off and when i restart the drive its the same: the photo i've deleted from the mac is missing from the drive too. Also I cannot access iphoto backups on time machine, the most recent shows up but all others are blacked out and unresponsive. can someone please help? i'm on iphoto 08 and want to be able to make sure everything is saved anad backed up so i can upgrade the operating system and also have some space on my computer!!

To move an iPhoto Library:
Make sure the drive is formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
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.
Regards
TD

Copying saved iphoto library from external hard drive back to Macbook Pro

Please help, I have accidentally managed to permanently delete my iphoto library and by this I mean that I somehow dragged my library into trash and then emptied it. I don't know how this happend but I quite quickly found out I had done it and shut my computer down. I have since done a recovery with disk drill and have hopefully recovered most of my photos though I havent had time to look through all the 1000's of photos yet. I do have a copied version of my library on an external hard drive that I did in 2012 and I have tried to copy this library back to my pictures folder so i at least have my photos up to 2012 back but it is not working. I have read through some of the threads on here regarding iphoto library back ups and I think the issue might be that the external hard drive is formatted Fat32 and not os extended.
I am hoping someone can help me get this working. Here are the facts.
1. I am running iphoto 11, version 9.2.3 on a macbook pro running os x 10.6.8
2. The copied iphoto library is on an external hard drive that is fat32 formatted. I can open the package contents and see the originals folder with all the yearly folders inside and all the numbered folders inside that with the pictures in them, so I know the pictures are there.
3. If I try to copy the library folder over to the pictures folder on the macbook i just get a pop up window saying 'preparing to copy iphoto library' and the scrolling bar but the copy doesn't actually start.
4. If I try to open the library through iphoto by holidng down the option key, iphoto tells me that the library has to be upgraded but i am reluctant to upgrade the original copy of the library. I would prefer to copy it first in case anything goes wrong but then i have the problem above that the copy doesn't work
Thank you in advance for any help.

The copied iphoto library is on an external hard drive that is fat32 formatted.
Therein lies the problem. iPhoto libraries need to be stored, placed on a disk formatted OS X Extended (journaled). The FAT format doesn't support the complexity of an iPhoto library and can, and more often than not, corrupt a library.
Try the following:
Using iPhoto Library Manager to Rebuild Your iPhoto Library
1 - download the free version of iPhoto Library Manager and launch.>Click on the Add Library button,
2 - select the library you want to add from those in the selection window.
3 - make sure that in the rebuild window the checkbox "Scavange orphaned photos" is checked.
4 - now that the library is listed in the left hand pane of iPLM, click on your library and go to the Library ➙ Rebuild Library menu option
5 - in the next window name the new library and select the location you want it to be placed, i.e. in the Pictures folder of your MBP. Click on the Create button.
Note 1: This creates a new library based on the LIbraryData.xml file in the library and will recover Events, Albums, keywords, titles and comments. However, books, calendars, cards and slideshows will be lost.
Note 2: Your current library will be left untouched for further attempts at a fix if so desired.
OT

ITunes isn't saving songs to my external hard drive like I want.

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This might be a simple problem.
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THANKS!

If you go to Edit>>Preferences>>Advanced, you will see the location of the iTunes Media folder. The default location is My Music\iTunes.
This is where iTunes will store imported CD and purchases from the iTunes store.
You can change the location to your external drive, but this only produces an effect in the future. Anything already added, stays where it is.
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Saving music to an external hard drive thru itunes so that its not stored on my already overloaded macbook, but plays thru i tunes when i hook up the external hard drive

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I have a macbook pro, and sooooo much music the hard drive is already full and i'm not halfway thru importing all my cds, I have hooked up a 2TB external hard drive and used it to back up my hard drive with time machine but i want to use the remaining space on the external drive to store every cd that i have so i can become a cd free household. How do I copy music onto my hard drive thru itunes so it adds to my library but runs off my external hard drive rather than my already over loaded internal hard drive?
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Saved my itunes on external hard drive added windows 7 then could not retreive after downloading itunes on new OS

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Recently purchased a Buffalo NAS 2TB external hard drive. I didn't realize at the time of purchase that Apple doesn't support NAS drives; although, I did find ChronoSync software that would allow me to back up my iMac to the Buffalo hard drive.
After a successful backup of music, documents, and photos, for some reason when I upload new pics they are now saved on the Buffalo external hard drive and NOT my iMac which is where they should be going. When setting up the backup to the Buffalo originally, I only selected the folders that I wanted to backup (music, photos, documents, and applications). I made sure I only wanted those backed up; there was no need to backup my entire internal hard drive.
When uploading new pics to iPhoto, I never selected anything to tell my iMac to save all new photos to the Buffalo external hard drive.
So now when I open iPhoto on my iMac, it winds up missing three or four event folders that I recently uploaded (Christmas pics, etc) but when I open the "iPhoto Library" icon on my Buffalo hard drive, it shows everything (even the three or four event folders that my iMac "iPhoto Library" is missing).
Any thoughts of what the problem is? When backing up my iMac, all I wanted to do was save my already existing pictures to an external hard drive. What I didn't want is for the Buffalo hard drive to "save" the entire iPhoto application (which is what I think it did).
With all the problems I've been having with this NAS hard drive, I've since purchased a non-NAS hard drive and will be using Time Machine from here on out! The things you learn......
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iPhoto saves the files to the default Library when you import, and the default library is the last one opened.
IF the one on your iMac is the default library and the files are turning up on the back up, the likely candidate for responsibility is the back up app, I'm afraid. I'd check the settings on that.
Regards
TD

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