iPhoto library help...

[doylee01]

Hi,
My iphoto library is starting to fill up my external hard drive so i bought a new 1TB drive yesterday. Is there a way to keep the photos i have on the external hard drive i have been using and continue the library on this new hard drive. I would like to be able to continue the library and not create a new one and would like to be able to see all event across both the hard drives. Does anyone know how to go about doing this?

 

[yippy]

You cannot span a library across two volumes. However, you can move your entire existing library onto the new drive so that it has much more room to grow. I believe it is as easy as copying the library over and then pointing iPhoto to the new location.

 

[doylee01]

oh ok, do you know how many jpeg pictures you could fit on a 1TB external hard drive? (I take pictures with a 10megapixel camera)

 

[yippy]

You can fit about 500,000 10 megapixal jpegs on a 1TB drive.