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They all stay compiled into one 'App' file. Taking advantage of this, we can move all of our hefty apps and support files over to an external drive to free up space on the built-in drive, and in short, speed up your system. Choosing an External Drive. The best external drives for Mac computers are undoubtably G-DRIVE ones. They're reliable. Hi George, it depends on a number of factors. Normally a system hard drive would be faster than an external drive. But a 5400 rpm drive is pretty slow. Fusion drives can be pretty fast for some tasks.
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You can store your library on an external storage device, such as a USB or Thunderbolt drive formatted as APFS or Mac OS Extended (Journaled). However, you can't move your library to a disk that's used for Time Machine backups. Find out how to check the format of your external storage device.
To prevent data loss, Apple doesn't recommend storing photo libraries on external storage devices like SD cards and USB flash drives, or drives that are shared on a network.
Move your Photos library to an external storage device
- Quit Photos.
- In the Finder, go to the external drive where you want to store your library.
- In another Finder window, find your library. The default location is Users > [username] > Pictures, and it's named Photos Library.
- Drag your library to its new location on the external drive. If you see an error, select your external drive's icon in the Finder, then choose File > Get Info. If the information under Sharing & Permissions isn't visible, click the triangle button , then make sure the 'Ignore ownership on this volume' checkbox is selected. If it's not selected, click the lock button to unlock it, enter an administrator name and password, then select the checkbox.*
- After the move is finished, double-click Photos Library in its new location to open it.
- If you use iCloud Photo Library, designate this library as the System Photo Library.
Delete original library to save space
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After you open your library from its new location and make sure that it works as expected, you can delete the library from its original location.
In a Finder window, go back to your Pictures folder (or whichever folder you copied your library from) and move Photos Library to the trash. Then choose Finder > Empty Trash to delete the library and reclaim disk space.
Open another Photos library
If you have multiple libraries, here's how to open a different one:
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- Quit Photos.
- Press and hold the Option key while you open Photos.
- Select the library that you want to open, then click Choose Library.
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Photos uses this library until you open a different one.
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If you have a permissions issue with your library, you might be able to resolve the issue by using the Photos library repair tool.
* If the volume isn't formatted APFS or Mac OS Extended (Journaled), or has been used for Time Machine backups but hasn't been erased, this checkbox will either not be present, or won't be selectable after unlocking. Erase and reformat the drive for this option to be available.
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I have an iMac g5 with a 232gb internal hard drive. its the white one not the new silver model. Recently i thought that the internal crashed because one day when i booted my computer it just went to a blue screen and froze there. So i took it to the store and the a 'genius' told me that it crashed and he could try reformatting the drive to see if that fixed it, but it didnt at the store. so he told me to get an external drive and i could install Tiger OSx on it and use it as my main drive. So i bought a Lacie rugged 500gb drive with Firewire 400/800. my iMac only has the 400 plug so thats what i hooked it up with. Now when i went to try to do all of this, i put my Install disk in and when i went to pick my drive to install it to for some reason the internal was recogonized and the external had a red marker on it and it says i can not install to this volume. So i reinstalled the OSx to my internal. When i updated the tiger to 10.4.11. My computer froze and didnt work again. I erased the internal again and now i want to install the tiger to the external and use it as my main drive because there is obviously something wrong with my internal. How do i go about getting this done? Why does the external say i cannot install OsX to this volume?
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