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Manage iPhoto on external hard disk
Most of my Mac hard drive is filled with iPhoto pictures. I have an external USB hard drive. What to do? Just moving pictures from Pictures/iPhoto Library is not a perfect option as I want to have ...
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Saving Photos in iPhoto to a flashdrive or other device
I would like to back up my photos from my iPhoto Library (right now, I have about 8,000) and all I have available at the moment is a 10G flash drive.
Eventually, I would like to buy an external hard ...
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Sharing large library of Photos and Videos (currently in iPhoto) in different macs at home
currently I have iPhoto on my mac (mountain lion). the library is more than 350 GB (and growing fast). It is only on my computer, but my wife wants to have acces to the pictures too, not only ...
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Backup and Removal of photos from iPhoto Library
I have a large number of photos within iPhoto 11 and I want to backup and reduce the size of my local iPhoto library to free up disk space on my laptop.
One scenario I've tried is:
Show iPhoto ...
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Time Machine stopped backing up my iPhoto library a year ago, lost all photos
I recently got my iMac's HDD replaced and when I restored my computer, every single Time Machine backup stretching back to last October contained the same size iPhoto library (+/- 100MB), which was ...
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How to back up iPhoto and iTunes using Dropbox
Could someone explain in simple terms exactly how to back up iPhoto and iTunes (and if possible keep it synced) using Dropbox, please? I have purchased some additional space with Dropbox to do this, ...
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Backing up iPhoto pictures and folders from the command-line
I'd like to install a new OS X on a MacBook and I'd like to know what needs to be done to backup only the iPhoto pictures. I definitely do not want to backup the entire /Users/Cedric/ directory. All ...
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Video backup solution in the Cloud
I'm about to purchase the new Macbook Pro with Retina display and I want to get the cheapest version. But it only comes with a 256gbyte hard drive. I probably use 30gbytes for all my data and ...
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how to keep low-res photos handy, while archiving high-res versions?
I have a laptop with a 256Gb SSD that always seems to be full. A lot of my disk space is used by photos (in Aperture and iPhoto).
What I really want is to have low-res versions of all my photos on ...
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How can I programatically fill a flash drive with my latest photos from iPhoto?
Suppose I want to fill up a flash drive with the most recent photos in my iPhoto Library.
I want to end up with an external drive that has all my photos in a single directory (no nested folders)
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What is the best way to backup photos & videos from iPhoto online?
I'd love to use Dropbox to back up all my photos and videos, especially from iPhoto. But I'm not exactly sure the best way to do this is, given that I know that my 2 computers with iPhoto directories ...
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Uninstalling OS Lion, and transferring photos to MacBook if full restore needed
I have, stupidly, upgraded to OS Lion on both my desktop and laptop.
I've now done a hard restore on my laptop, back to Snow Leopard, and reinstalled my photo software, which wouldn't work with Lion.
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Remove missing pictures in iPhoto
My iPhoto (iLife 11, version 9.1.5) committed sepuku. No fear, I have backups.
The backups I restored, instead of having 182GB of poorly taken pictures, ended up taking 276GB. Something failed with ...
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Storing and working off iphoto and itunes library on NAS?
I have the 2011 macbook air with 128gb ssd. Storage is low so i'm hoping to set up for the very first time, a NAS to host large files such as photo's (raw format), video's and music (lossless and aac ...
