Use a External HD as a Iphoto Library?
I have all my Digital Photos on an External Drive... Is there a way to use these Photos with IPhoto without copying all the photos to the Mac Drive? IE, can I setup Face detection, Librarys, Slideshows, etc, without moving the photos to the Mac's HD? Simply just run everything from the external drive?
I'm not sure where you are now - if you have an existing iPhoto library that you want to move to the EHD then quit iPhoto and drag it from the pictures folder to the EHD and launch iPhoto while depressing the option (alt) key to select it
If you want two libraries - the existing one on your internal drive and a new one on the EHD or only a new one on the EHD then launch iPhoto while depressing the option (alt) key and create a new library on the EHD - point iPhoto to it and start importing photos - assuming that you take the recommended route and copy the photo to the iPhoto library you can delete the source original once you have imported it - or you can leave it - your choice
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