On Mar 13, 2009, at 7:35 AM, Kees Timmers wrote:
> Thanks. Another question: The best way to do this is to start a new message thread. > > All my photo's are on a external disk that is connected to my > network. I > want to keep them there. > When I drag them into iPhoto the photo's are copied to my iMac > harddisk. Is > there a way to keep them on the e-disk and use the iPhoto > functionality as > well? In iPhoto's prefs you can designate where your photo library is; however, iPhoto will STILL suck all your photos into it's directory structure. Like iTunes, iPhoto is designed to manage your photos. Let it. You will waste time, effort and disk space fighting it. Your best solution is to move your iPhoto library to the external disk, import your photos and delete or archive the existing photos on the external disk. Here's how to move the library: <http://tinyurl.com/dao4cj> -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's iMac List, a group for those using G3, G4, G5, and Intel Core iMacs as well as Apple eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
