My wife has a lot of pictures... and I mean a LOT! She's just about filled her 1TB internal drive with nothing but pictures. What can I say? Cute kids.
She was a long-time user of iPhoto... but it started to get really bogged down. I bought and installed Aperture for her. It brought in her iPhoto library and we now download all new pics to Aperture. Seemed fine for a while...
Now Aperture is getting bogged down. I read some threads here about sending the Masters to an external drive. That method sounds promising and I have a 1.5TB drive standing by when my concerns are answered.
Here are my questions:
1. Since the iPhoto library is the bulk of the Aperture library, can I move the iPhoto library to an external drive? If so, that would solve most of my problems immediately. If not, can I "remove" the iPhoto library from Aperture, move it and then re-link it?
2. If I move the masters and iPhoto libraries to an external drive... will I still be able to view all of my pictures on ATV2? My wife loves this feature... but it's getting harder and harder to do as her computer fills up.
She was a long-time user of iPhoto... but it started to get really bogged down. I bought and installed Aperture for her. It brought in her iPhoto library and we now download all new pics to Aperture. Seemed fine for a while...
Now Aperture is getting bogged down. I read some threads here about sending the Masters to an external drive. That method sounds promising and I have a 1.5TB drive standing by when my concerns are answered.
Here are my questions:
1. Since the iPhoto library is the bulk of the Aperture library, can I move the iPhoto library to an external drive? If so, that would solve most of my problems immediately. If not, can I "remove" the iPhoto library from Aperture, move it and then re-link it?
2. If I move the masters and iPhoto libraries to an external drive... will I still be able to view all of my pictures on ATV2? My wife loves this feature... but it's getting harder and harder to do as her computer fills up.