Iphoto: using network drive to store source photos (issue).

[belltree]

We have our photos stored on a NAS in our home network and running iPhoto '09 on a Mac. When first setting up iPhoto I simply dragged the network photo into iPhoto (with "Copy Items to the iPhoto Library" unchecked as I don't want to create duplicates of the photos already on the NAS).

The import went well and it appears to properly reference the source photos when viewing them. I am,however, having one problem: iPhoto does not seem to update the local library when I add photos to the network storage drive. Is there anyway to set iPhoto to 'watch' the source folder(s) and update the library accordingly? Appreciate any advice/help. Thanks.

 

[r.j.s]

I don't think there is, you still have to import them into the iPhoto library.

 

[Nobita]

I don't think there's any. I think iPhoto decides that watching a folder takes a lot of resources. I did this in picasa on windows, but I notice that it ran much slower than iphoto where we add the photo ourself.