[X4U] RE: Moving iPhoto Library

Nancy Spoolman nanc at spoolman.com
Fri Mar 18 09:40:10 PST 2005


I have moved my files over and over again and the library comes up just 
fine as long as I put it in my Pictures folder.

On Mar 18, 2005, at 10:04 AM, Stroller wrote:

>
> On Mar 18, 2005, at 11:35 am, aashram wrote:
>
>> you dont need photo buddy - that for using multiple libraries
>> copy you whole iphoto library folder in pictures on the osx to your
>> linux server.  when iphoto starts up cause there is no iphoto folder
>> in pictured it asks you where it is. give it the location
>> of your new location and then it will all work
>
> Have you tested this with iPhoto 05? I found iPhoto *very* sniffy 
> about its files being messed with when I tried to do so; I think 05 
> uses two additional new data files over iPhoto 04, big binary ones. 
> In my case I ended up having to start again from scratch reimporting 
> all my photos manually. I'd also be careful to check whether 
> PhotoBuddy is '05-aware.
>
> Stroller.
>
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Nanc
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