Rescue your Mac from having too many photos in iPhoto

“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.

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