“Yahoo estimated that 880 billion photos will be taken this year alone, a number no doubt inflated by all the selfies pouring out of the Philippines,” John Patrick Pullen reports for TIME Magazine.
“If you open up iPhoto and feel like all those pics have somehow made it onto your Mac, don’t despair,” Pullen reports. “There’s a trick that can liberate your Apple computer from the stranglehold of your snapshots.”
Pullen notes, “Using this method of externally story [sic] your iPhoto Library may mean it no longer backs up using Apple’s Time Machine service (which you are using… right?), unless you change your settings to tell it to archive that drive, too.”
Read more in the full article here.
It’s “Macs”. Come on, guys. 😉
That was the first thing I noticed, too.
Technically it can be either if you consider ‘Mac’ as an abbreviation but it’s a bit old fashioned. Macs is definitely better.
Macs is fine, the apostrophe on the other hand, is not fine.
You can consider that ‘Mac’ is an abbreviation. But it’s not in this case.
@Brit’
“Mac” is a clipping or truncation of “Macintosh”, not an abbreviation. Also, we don’t use apostrophes on abbreviations, we use them on contractions.
It’s pretty sad when people don’t even know when or when not to use something as simple as an apostrophe.
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You should print out the best images, for safe keeping.
OMG I hope this is sarcasm…
And if it’s not? 🙂
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No, it’s Mooooshell.
Sorry, Rob, but try as I might, I can’t understand your single word screamed response. Is there maybe a number where I can reach you, or some other means of communication I can use to get more information?
“Rescue your Mac’s. . . .”
“Using this method of externally story your iPhoto Library”
Good grief.
My iphoto library is on a couple 2TB hard drives velcroed to the lid of my MacBook Pro. Also all albums on Flickr.
Why didn’t I think of that !!!!
Do you have anything positive to contribute besides cheap shots?
Overly simplistic.
Overly simple = simplistic. Hard to be “very” or “overly” simplistic.
C’mon — at least give us the name of a couple of reliable ways to find and eliminate duplicate shots, or other tips to shrink the library itself. Moving it to an external drive does nothing to “clean up” iPhoto. Sheesh.
Here’s one trick insurance companies hate that saved me 104GB in my photo library. I went from 351GB to 247GB by doing this.
Quit Aperture, iPhoto and iTunes. Go to your photo library (iPhoto/Aperture) and Show Package Contents. In there, look for a folder called “iPod Photo Cache”.
You may be able to delete this and save a ton of space without any issue. However there are some caveats to this.
The iPod Photo Cache is used to generate images that match the resolution of the displays of the iPods, iPads, and iPhones you may be syncing too. If you’re like me, I’ve had a bazillion different iOS devices and my iPod Photo Cache was storing GBs of photo cache for devices I wasn’t even using anymore.
Worse, I had libraries that I wasn’t even using as sync libraries anymore that still had the cache in them.
One of the things that I hated about moving to a Retina iPad is that it gobbled up tons of space for photos on the iPad itself as well as my Mac.
Now if you delete your cache, keep in mind it will need to be rebuilt if you go to resync your photos. So if you only ever had one device, and you always want your photos synced, this isn’t going to help.
If the cache needs to be regenerated, it will be a slower process than simply re-syncing if the cache still existed.
However, if you’re like I was, the cache may have gotten out of control, is no longer needed… or is corrupt (actually that’s how I discovered this… my photos would crash iTunes when I went to sync).
Do this at your own risk. Keep in mind Apple may make changes to software. I’m not responsible…blah…blah…blah.
“Rescue you Mac’s” Get a copy editor! “Macs” is plural, not possessive! Doesn’t anybody go to school anymore?
Yeah. But apostrophes are also used in abbreviations and contractions to indicate that some letters have been omitted. Like “it’s” is an abbreviation of “it is.” Or “o’clock” is an abbreviation of “of the clock.” So the headline could be right if the author was using a contraction of “Macintoshes.”
That would be true if “Mac’s” was a contraction of “Macintoshes” but it’s not. That’s why we also don’t use Mac’ when talking about it in the singular.
Mac is a clipping (or truncation) of the word Macintosh. It’s like using the word exam instead of examination or doc instead of doctor. No apostrophe should be used.
Rotten advice. Take all of your pics that are backed up via time machine and put them all on a single drive that is not backed up. I wouldn’t want to be there when that goes South.
My 16 years worth of digital photos are in separate libraries organized by year. Old ones are stored on a 2TB hard drive and removed from my Mac. When I plug the Thunderbolt drive into my Mac iPhoto recognizes them immediately so it’s easy to switch libraries.
How can an article be so stupid ?
What it basically says is “move all your precious photos to an external drive and stop saving them”.
This is total crap.
So, the method is to not store them on one device but to store them on another. Brilliant.
Also, if you have a large number of photos but want to have a smaller number, quick tip. Delete some.
Delete some?
And what happens to those pictures that get deleted? They no longer exist! What an excellent idea for archiving precious memories — simply delete them!