Friday, December 31, 2010

Dear Aunt TUAW: How do I move my iPhoto library to a bigger drive?

Dear Auntie TUAW:

Ever since getting an SLR camera as an early Christmas gift (during Thanksgiving actually), I've been taking high-res photos at a rapid clip -- and filling up my hard drive quickly in the process. In the last month, I've halved my disk space. Is there a good way to offload your iPhoto library to an external drive? I'd still want to be able to access it regularly, so perhaps via a wireless drive like the Time Capsule?

If that's not a smart way to go, what other alternatives are there? Should I just lower the image resolution on my camera from Large to Medium or Small? Seems like it would be kind of defeating the purpose of having such a good camera, but with photos running around 12 MB each (and videos exponentially larger), I'm worried about running out of HD space in January.

Ted

Continue reading Dear Aunt TUAW: How do I move my iPhoto library to a bigger drive?

Dear Aunt TUAW: How do I move my iPhoto library to a bigger drive? originally appeared on TUAW on Tue, 28 Dec 2010 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Source | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Emmanuelle Vaugier Sarah Silverman Larissa Meek Gina Carano Sanaa Lathan

No comments:

Post a Comment