I have iPhoto ’11 on my MacBook and it’s taking up a huge amount of disk space. Can I store the photos on an USB external drive to free up space on the laptop?
Apple’s iPhoto can work with picture libraries stored on external drives. Before you move things around, it is a good idea to back up your collection to discs or a regular backup drive just to be safe.
Next, quit iPhoto if it is open. Once you have a compatible hard drive connected to the laptop, open your Home folder on the Mac (or press Shift-Command-H) and then open the Pictures folder.
Select the iPhoto Library folder and drag it to the external drive. After the folder is finished copying, go back to the iPhoto Library on your Mac and add the word “old” to the file name. Next, hold down the Option key, open iPhoto and select the library file you just moved to the external drive. Make sure everything looks O.K. before deleting the old iPhoto Library on the laptop.
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