If you have lots of photos and you're used to just scrolling through them fluidly, you may find it doesn't work as well when it's on an external drive.Įven worse, a lot of people try to move their iPhoto library to a network drive. iPhoto isn't the fastest program because it's showing you lots and lots of photos, so you're going to cut that speed considerably in half by about a seventh if you're going to move your library to an external drive. Now, if you've got a USB 2.0 hard drive hooked up to your computer and you move the photo library there, the transfer rate across that USB cable is only going to be 400 megabits per second. 3 gigabits per second is about 3000 megabits per second. That's a transfer rate to get the files from your hard drive into your computer so you can see them. Typical speed for an internal hard drive inside of a computer, say an iMac, is about 3 gigabits per second. Now, there are things to think about when you're moving it there. That's all you need to do to move your entire iPhoto library to an external hard drive. Then next time I launch iPhoto - I'll quit it and I'll launch it again - it'll know to go to that library, it won't ask me again unless I hold down the Option key. So I can confirm that everything's okay and I can go through the photos, and once I know this one is fine, I can delete the original, just put it in the trash for now. I'm going to choose that one, and now it's going to open up iPhoto and it's going to have the same pictures I saw before. I've got three here: the one that you would normally open, that's the one we took the copy from, and I can look here and see there's another one that is on the external drive, which is the one that I just used, and it's called iPhoto Library. Here's where I can select a different iPhoto library. What will happen is instead of it just opening as normal, I'm going to get presented with this dialogue box here. Now I'm going to launch iPhoto, but I'm going to hold down the Option key on my keyboard when I do it. I can go back to this one later and delete it once I confirm this one is working fine. Now that that's done, I've got two copies of that library, one in the original location and one in the old one. For instance, if I wanted to move it to my external drive - and here I've got one with no files in it at the moment - I can simply copy the entire thing there, and it will copy all the photos, everything associated with that iPhoto library. You can put it in another folder, and you can move it to another drive. It's a single file, it's actually a package, and you can look in it if you want but I'm not going to go into that right now. There you can see I've got something called iPhoto Library, and this is the default location for your iPhoto library. Here I am in my Home folder, and under my Home folder I have Pictures. You could put that anywhere you want, but it all stays together, so you don't have any choices about putting some things in one place and some things in another. Moving your iPhoto library is not as complex as moving an iTunes library, because you don't have any choices. On today's episode, let me show you how to move your iPhoto library to another drive, and why you may not want to. Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with MacMost Now. Check out MacMost Now 643: Moving Your iPhoto Library at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.
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