And it certainly wasn't as easy as I had hoped! (I'm man enough to admit serious editing was involved) Now go easy on me here! I haven't recorded my voice (on purpose) in a long time. Oh, by the way, this technique will also work if you just want to move your library to a new folder location on your current drive. So it occurred to me this is a situation a lot of iPhoto users will probably face at one time or another and would therefore be a perfect topic for my very first video tutorial on this website. Thankfully Apple lets us change which photo library loads and where we store it, they just didn't go out of their way to make sure we would know how to do it! My Very First Video Tutorial And one quick way to do that would be for you to make iPhoto lose the connection with the correct library and database and not know how to fix it. (There was a little pressure on me)īecause Apple wanted to make iPhoto so easy for someone to use, it only makes sense they also want to protect their users from doing anything that would accidentally ruin their collection. It took me a moment, but thankfully I was able to remember on the spot this seldom needed secret trick. But they couldn't seem to find an option to point her collection's storage location to her external hard drive. They were looking for the solution in the most obvious place, the iPhoto “Preferences” menu option. The other day, I overheard two friends of mine discussing how one of them wanted to move her iPhoto collection off her packed Macbook Pro laptop.

If you don't want to replace your current hard drive with a larger one, moving your photo collection to an emptier secondary hard drive is always another option. Maybe even to the point where now it's completely full!

Sometimes your scanned or digital camera's photo collection is just so massive it takes over your entire hard drive.

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