Hi,
First post.
I switched from Windows XP to Mac OS X last week and I'm very pleased with the decision. I'm running OS X 10.4.1 on a 12-inch iBook G4. When I imported all of my music, I noticed iTunes making copies of the MP3 files in its own "iTunes Music" folder, and this was quite frustrating as I have a small hard drive and I didn't have much space to spare. After I had changed the preferences and gotten iTunes working the way I wanted it to, I began working on iPhoto collections... and again, it copies the photos to a designated "iPhoto Library" folder. So I went into iPhoto preferences and I didn't see any option to stop it from copying the image files. Now, I've got about a gig and a half of photos... and currently, 3.8 GB of free space on the hard drive. Importing these into iPhoto, and there having them copied, would leave me with a dangerously low amount of free space. Is there any way for iPhoto to not copy these images into its special folder, and just leave them where they are and read them from there?
First post.
I switched from Windows XP to Mac OS X last week and I'm very pleased with the decision. I'm running OS X 10.4.1 on a 12-inch iBook G4. When I imported all of my music, I noticed iTunes making copies of the MP3 files in its own "iTunes Music" folder, and this was quite frustrating as I have a small hard drive and I didn't have much space to spare. After I had changed the preferences and gotten iTunes working the way I wanted it to, I began working on iPhoto collections... and again, it copies the photos to a designated "iPhoto Library" folder. So I went into iPhoto preferences and I didn't see any option to stop it from copying the image files. Now, I've got about a gig and a half of photos... and currently, 3.8 GB of free space on the hard drive. Importing these into iPhoto, and there having them copied, would leave me with a dangerously low amount of free space. Is there any way for iPhoto to not copy these images into its special folder, and just leave them where they are and read them from there?