How To Increase Photo Library Volume On Mac

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A solution for iPhoto's 'Not enough Disk Space' error

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i cant get iPhoto to give me the error at the moment. but, i've never changed the 60gb drive from my powerbook. next time i get the 'out of space' error i'll try 86'ing the pref file. but, i do not believe the original installation drive size is the root of the problem.
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A solution for iPhoto's 'Not enough Disk Space' error

I came across this problem this weekend. They way I solved it was to close and restart iPhoto. That solved it for me.

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A solution for iPhoto's 'Not enough Disk Space' error

This is definitely not caused by original disk size. I ran into it last weekend after installing iPhoto 4 on my dad's iMac (disks have never changed). Somehow I fixed it by trying to just export 1 pic at a time, and then when I tried to do many again, it worked fine.
Just to ask, anyone know of a way to change the filename to match the photo's name in iPhoto? My old man wants the photos to stay in the order he sets in iPhoto when he burns a CD to send to friends. He named the pics 1, 2, 3 etc.. but the file name doesn't change, which is the whole point when making his CD.

A solution for iPhoto's 'Not enough Disk Space' error

Apple has a KB Article (No. 93680 at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93680) about this problem and says updating to 4.0.1 should solve it.

A solution for iPhoto's 'Not enough Disk Space' error

This is one of my favorite iPhoto bugs. It's a meaningless error message that seems to arise from several problems.
The two most common causes are corruption in a thumbnail and a less common problem related to disk size. One time it occurred to me every time an export reduced free disk space to exactly 3GB. DECREASING free disk space beyond that level allowed export to occur.
Known fixes:
1. Deleting the prefs as mentioned here.
2. Upgrade to 4.01 (didn't work for this guy).
3. Deleting the image thumbnail caches (as per the referenced kb article).
4. Splitting exports in half until one isolates the 'bad' image, then performing an operation that regenerates the thumbnail. (Crop then revert.)
In general a lot of OS X problems seem to be related to cache corruption. Makes me wonder about the low level BSD interfaces.
iPhoto has had a rocky development course. Rumor has it the product team has undergone a shakeup, but rumor also has it that iPhoto gets very little respect and focus within Apple. Rumor is worth what you pay for it :-).
I guess Jobs was always a guitar geek and not a camera nerd.
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A solution for iPhoto's 'Not enough Disk Space' error

The problem just hit me again. This time I tried Panther Cache Cleaner and deleted all the caches (deep clean). I didn't remove the plist file. The problem resolved. Deleting the thumb images didn't help.
I wonder how bad Panther's underlying cache corruption problems are.
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Your Photos library holds all your photos, albums, slideshows, and print projects. If your library is large, and you want to free up storage space on your Mac, turn on iCloud Photo Library and use Optimize Mac Storage, or move your library to an external drive.

Before you start, be sure to back up your library.

Prepare your drive

You can store your library on an external storage device, such as a USB or Thunderbolt drive formatted as APFS or Mac OS Extended (Journaled).1 Find out how to check the format of your external storage device.

The network library, /Network/Library would store settings shared by all computers in a network domain - if a network domain admin set one up, which nobody does anymore. The system library, /System/Library, stores the base settings, resources, etc that come with OS X. In theory, you shouldn't change anything in here. Mac os x what is the library cookie directory online Apr 09, 2018  macOS Library Directory Details The Library directories are where the system and your code store all of their related data and resources. In macOS, this directory can contain many different subdirectories, most of which are created automatically by the system. Jan 12, 2020  The Library folder contains many of the resources that installed applications need to use, including application preference files, application support files, plug-in folders, and ever since OS X Lion, the plists that describe the saved state of applications.

To prevent data loss, Apple doesn't recommend storing photo libraries on external storage devices like SD cards and USB flash drives, or drives that are shared on a network.

Move your Photos library to an external storage device

  1. Quit Photos.
  2. In the Finder, go to the external drive where you want to store your library.
  3. In another Finder window, find your library. The default location is Users > [username] > Pictures, and it's named Photos Library.
  4. Drag your library to its new location on the external drive. If you see an error, select your external drive's icon in the Finder, then choose File > Get Info. If the information under Sharing & Permissions isn't visible, click , then make sure the 'Ignore ownership on this volume' checkbox is selected. If it's not selected, click to unlock it, enter an administrator name and password, then select the checkbox.2

  5. After the move is finished, double-click Photos Library in its new location to open it.
  6. If you use iCloud Photo Library, designate this library as the System Photo Library.

Delete original library to save space

After you open your library from its new location and make sure that it works as expected, you can delete the library from its original location.

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In a Finder window, go back to your Pictures folder (or whichever folder you copied your library from) and move Photos Library to the trash. Then choose Finder > Empty Trash to delete the library and reclaim disk space.

Open another Photos library

If you have multiple libraries, here's how to open a different one:

  1. Quit Photos.
  2. Press and hold the Option key while you open Photos.
  3. Select the library that you want to open, then click Choose Library.

Photos uses this library until you open a different one.

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If you have a permissions issue with your library, you might be able to resolve the issue by using the Photos library repair tool.

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1. You can't move your library to a disk that's used for Time Machine backups.

Reveal mac hidden library. 2. If the volume isn't formatted APFS or Mac OS Extended (Journaled), or has been used for Time Machine backups but hasn't been erased, this checkbox will either not be present, or won't be selectable after unlocking. Erase and reformat the drive for this option to be available.

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