Hi! Is it possible to move the iBooks library from its default location on the boot drive (where the iBooks-application also resides) to a different hard drive?
Currently all my ebooks and PDFs are kept in the default Books-folder in the home-library on the SSD-boot-drive of my Mac where the iBooks application is also kept by default (path: Users/username/Library/Containers/com.apple.BKAgentService/Data/Documents/iBooks/Books). Space is getting narrow on my SSD-boot-drive so that I would like to free up approximately 20 GB by moving the entire iBooks library to a second internal HDD-drive of my Mac or to an external USB-drive.
I have not been able to find any instructions on the internet on how to move the iBooks library nor have I been successful in any of my experiments to move the Books-folder. What I have tried is the following:
1. I moved the original PDF-files away out of the Books-folder to a different drive and placed aliases from these files in the Books-folder. The result is that the iBooks-application will simply re-create a full size copy of the original PDF file in the Books-folder. I.e. no saving of disk space!
2. I copied the Books-folder from its default location in the user library on my internal SSD-boot-drive to a second internal HDD-drive, erased the Books-folder at the original location and instead placed a hard link at the original location. I verified that the hard link is working and pointing to the right location on the second drive. The result is that the iBooks-application will not recognize/show any of the PDF-files at the new location. Trying to re-import the missing PDF-files into iBooks results in the message This book is already in your library. Do you want to replace it with the one youre adding?. By clicking on Yes the same message returns infinitely often. I.e. no successes!
3. I repeated the same procedure as described above under 2. using the iBooks-folder which encloses the Books-folder (along with three other folders) with the same results as before. I.e. no successes!
(path: Users/username/Library/Containers/com.apple.BKAgentService/Data/Documents/iBooks)
Does anyone know how to successfully move the iBooks library to external/different hard drive?
Does anyone have links to internet discussions about this problem?
Regards BJB
Currently all my ebooks and PDFs are kept in the default Books-folder in the home-library on the SSD-boot-drive of my Mac where the iBooks application is also kept by default (path: Users/username/Library/Containers/com.apple.BKAgentService/Data/Documents/iBooks/Books). Space is getting narrow on my SSD-boot-drive so that I would like to free up approximately 20 GB by moving the entire iBooks library to a second internal HDD-drive of my Mac or to an external USB-drive.
I have not been able to find any instructions on the internet on how to move the iBooks library nor have I been successful in any of my experiments to move the Books-folder. What I have tried is the following:
1. I moved the original PDF-files away out of the Books-folder to a different drive and placed aliases from these files in the Books-folder. The result is that the iBooks-application will simply re-create a full size copy of the original PDF file in the Books-folder. I.e. no saving of disk space!
2. I copied the Books-folder from its default location in the user library on my internal SSD-boot-drive to a second internal HDD-drive, erased the Books-folder at the original location and instead placed a hard link at the original location. I verified that the hard link is working and pointing to the right location on the second drive. The result is that the iBooks-application will not recognize/show any of the PDF-files at the new location. Trying to re-import the missing PDF-files into iBooks results in the message This book is already in your library. Do you want to replace it with the one youre adding?. By clicking on Yes the same message returns infinitely often. I.e. no successes!
3. I repeated the same procedure as described above under 2. using the iBooks-folder which encloses the Books-folder (along with three other folders) with the same results as before. I.e. no successes!
(path: Users/username/Library/Containers/com.apple.BKAgentService/Data/Documents/iBooks)
Does anyone know how to successfully move the iBooks library to external/different hard drive?
Does anyone have links to internet discussions about this problem?
Regards BJB