iTunes is a lot happier than iPhoto running from "not local" hard disks, but both programs are very easy to make work in this way. If the drive is locally attached - i.e. A drobo or similar attached with USB thunderbolt or firewire, then it should be possible to format the drive to the same standard as ordinary mac disks (HFS+ its called) iphoto in particular will want this. itunes will probably work on any format of drive.
If you get a storage solution you connect to over network - still possible with a drobo, you are less likely to be able to control the disk format, so check its specs thoroughly that iphoto and itunes will actually work with it. I know iphoto is fussy with format of the drive. It can look like everythings working fine, but down the line you find bits of your library have broken, and that would be a horrible thing to find out too late. With your itunes and iphoto libraries on your new storage drive, (and no libraries on your new imac's built in drive) simply start each program holding the ALT key on the keyboard, and it will ask you the location of an existing library, then it will use that same path for every other time you run the program. On 17 September 2013 19:55, Alastair Weller <[email protected]>wrote: > You can have either library on secondary disks (physically connected or > remote) but performance will depend on the connection speed > > You could use an external Thunderbolt enclosure which would offer you the > ability for drive redundancy and expansion. > > Alastair > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 17 Sep 2013, at 19:50, Steve Davies <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Folks, > > > > I have a 2008 iMac which I updated with 4 GB of Ram and a 1TB hard drive. > > > > I have almost 2000 music albums and 24,000 images in iPhoto / Aperture. > > > > The system is getting a little sluggish and I am about to buy a new > replacement iMac. > > > > When I get the new machine I want to limit the amount of data I hold on > the hard disk buy purchasing a Drobo, (Or equivalent.) and have my iTunes > and iPhoto libraries funning on the Drobo? > > > > Questions. > > > > 1.) Is what I am proposing, (To manage these libraries off the main > machine.) possible / realistic? > > > > 2.) If the answer to 1.) Is yes, then is Drobo my best option? > > > > * I used the name Drobo, as it is the only system I have heard of, as I > understand it the Drobo has built in redundancy / swappable hard drives, > that ensures you never loose any data even if a drive fails. > > > > Any guidance here would be appreciated. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Steve. > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to [email protected]. > > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
