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TICKET ARCHIVE -> HARD DRIVES AND NO ROOM... maybe?

jessmoore - May 12, 2008 - 5:39 pm

ok so i am not so good at the mac stuff...



but my computer ( mac book ) ran out of room.. and said i had to get a new hard drive or delete something everytime i would try to upload my pictures.
so i went out and bought a mybook.
then i connected it but it said it would use time machine.. which i thought would be fine...
but i still says i dont have any space.
so i stopped time machine, and tried to partition my mybook disk into 2 compartment thing, one fo uploads to make more room for my laptop, and one for time machine...
BUT HOW SO I GET IT ONTO THE MY BOOK.
cause i am so lost........

this is urgent because my free lance photography shop is on a deadline and i have no idea how to work this dang MAC!!!

earthsaver - May 12, 2008 - 11:38 pm

Say you decide to put your entire iPhoto Library on the external hard disk. You would do that by dragging it from your Pictures folder to the other volume. Once it was there, you could confirm that it works by holding Option while opening iPhoto, selecting Choose Library, and navigating to the iPhoto Library bundle on the external. Confirmed? Now you can trash the copy on the internal disk and empty the trash, thus freeing disk space.

This is just an example likely to free significant space on your hard disk. You could move almost anything and you could also create symbolic links (like aliases) to point folder representations on the internal disk to their true location on the external disk. I've done this with my Music folder which I keep on another partition.

By the way, Time Machine didn't force you to set it up with the new disk. It asked whether you would like to do so and you agreed. What is the capacity of this disk? Is it large enough to both save some disk space and be backing up all of your data?

- Ben

jessmoore - May 13, 2008 - 9:21 pm

the only thing i worry about is how quickly and esasily can i access the items i have stored on the external back to my computer?

earthsaver - May 13, 2008 - 11:21 pm

If you keep the hard disk connected to your Mac all the time, then accessing your files is no harder than accessing those on the internal disk. You don't have to move them back to use them. Just open them as usual and they'll work.

The only iPhoto Libraries on external disk bug I know of is that Mail's Media Browser integration doesn't currently recognize them, which defeats the purpose of Mail's Stationery feature in Leopard.