Happy to report success, at least in the end result.
Thanks all for your suggestions, my photos are so important to me, I decided to not touch them, but to look for what else I could easily move off the MBP to allow enough room to edit a movie. I choose my folders of documents, pdf's and spreadsheets. Moved these to a external and freed up several gigs. Now I can decide which documents are important enough to re-install
I'll probably end up getting a portable drive later.
Thanks again.
Bill
Moving say, a thousand picture files might not give you the space required to edit video files, even if its temporary.
I would suggest investing in a portable drive, they have them up 500 Gb now, in the case of Seagate, and are fairly reliable. Not all drives last forever.
On 7/22/10, Bill Micou <[email protected]> wrote:Well group, that subject line tells my problem. I need to remove - but not delete forever - pictures from my MacBook Pro, in order to free up some space.
Many of the discussions I've found talk about moving my iPhoto library to a new spot on the external hd and telling the MBP where to find iPhoto when it starts up again.
I don't think I want that.
Can't I just move a thousand iPhoto pics to another drive, use the free space for movie importing, editing, etc., and maybe later, move same pics back?
Maybe if I had one of those portable external hard drives, I would feel better about moving the iPhoto library permanently, but for now, all I have are these desktop externals that I wouldn't want to travel with.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Bill Micou
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