How do I store iPhotos on an external drive?

[iCF-74 ToughMac]

Hi,

 

This is driving me nuts!

 

I just purchased a LaCie 1TB external drive. Completely painless formatting and setup.

 

I want to take my iPhoto library and move it to the 1TB drive to save space on the iMac drive. I'm approaching 10,000 photos so I thought it would be a good idea.

 

I moved over the iPhoto Library to the 1TB drive, and when I restarted Iphoto I pointed it towards the library's new location. I did this in BOTH user accounts. One account has admin privileges and the other does not, BUT I made sure BOTH accounts had read AND write privileges to the LaCie drive as well as the iPhoto Library on that drive.

 

Doesn't work!

 

I keep getting errors on both accounts. Things like 'some of your items could not be saved .. make sure your drive isn't full, or you have access to the iPhoto Library', or 'your privileges are wrong - would you like to repair the library?'

 

Not word for word mind you but the essence is there.

 

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So!

 

How would you go about effectively achieving this goal of placing your iPhoto Library on an external drive, so that it is accessible from 2 accounts. One with admin privileges and one with without??

 

Figured you guys would know....I'm tired of banging my head on a wall.

 

TIA,

 

 

Joe

[A Nonny Moose]

Have the Finder ignore all permissions on that disk. That always seems to solve problems.

[cbreaker]

You could change the permissions for the entire disk from the bash shell.

 

So, let's say your disk is called "External."

 

You'd have to login as an admin user, then run the shell. Then issue the following commands:

 

cd /Volumes/External
chmod -R ugo+rw *

 

You'd replace "External" with whatever the disk is called. If the name has a space in it, you have to put the whole path in quotes like: cd "/Volumes/External Disk"

 

This will crawl the entire file system on the disk and grant the owner (u), group (g), and "others" (o) both read and write permissions to every file. You might get some warnings about special system files (maybe lost+found or something, who knows) but you can ignore those.

 

Of course, this won't necessarily help if your super user creates a NEW file in there if iPhoto doesn't honor the permissions inheritance.

 

That's assuming the problem is in face file system permissions and not something specific to the application itself.

 

Worth a shot.