The thing is that iPhoto is looking for its library in that one location. You could get around this by "tricking" iPhoto into
thinking that this library is where it should be when it in fact resides on another drive. I don't know how big of a deal this is for you, but I had this all typed out anyway so I might as well post it. It's long, but it's very easy (I think).
So the goal is to make an alias, or link, from FolderB to FolderA, so that anything that gets put into FolderA gets automatically redirected to FolderB.
Step 1
First of all, FolderA gets moved to FolderB, so that it
becomes FolderB. If you take a look at the two drives you're working with:
- Macintosh HD
- Other Partition
What you want to do is make it so that "Macintosh HD/Users/YourHomeFolder/Pictures/iPhoto Library" becomes "Other Partition/iPhoto Library", so that your iPhoto Library longer exists on the partition you're moving it
from.
Step 2
The Terminal is an application in your /Applications/Utilities folder. It gives you a command prompt at which you can type commands. You need the Terminal in order to be able to make symbolic links which are what are required for tricking iPhoto. Symbolic links are aliases between files or folders, so that if you have a folder called "trees" and you want to be able to access that folder from two locations in your folder hierarchy, you can make a symbolic link from "trees" to "trees-alias" or whatever and read/write to & from "trees" by accessing "trees-alias" instead of "trees". I hope that makes sense. If not, bear with me, because you don't need to understand how it works, you just need to do it.
The exact command you will use will vary depending on the names of the folders involved, but let's keep working with the FolderA and FolderB example:
- FolderA is "Macintosh HD/Users/YourHomeFolder/Pictures/iPhoto Library".
- FolderB is "Other Partition/iPhoto Library". (You can rename this to whatever you like, though - substitute "Other Partition" for the actual name of your other partition.)
In the Terminal, the command you would want to use at the prompt to make the proper alias is (type this AFTER you've done step 1):
ln -s /Volumes/DriveB/iPhoto\ Library ~/Pictures
Where DriveB is the name of your other partition (the partition you want to move your iPhoto Library
to).
That should do the trick...
