Why are my photos from my external hard drive grayed on in iphoto? they appear ok in the preview app.
Hi
Completely new to macs, just bought a mac book air. I bought a My Book Live wireless external hard drive and copied all my photos from pc lap top to this drive. When I go to iphotos i selected 'switch library' and can click on the my book drive fine. all the photos then appear in the window but theyre all greyed out so cant be clicked on. when i go into the photo preview app they all appear as thumbnails and can be opened as normal. help!
Set the Finder preferences to display mounted hard drive on the desktop:
Then you will be able to select the hard drive and type Command + i to brin g up that info window.
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