Put iPhoto Library on an SMB share. Experience?
John Faughnan
iPhoto take up even more room than on their own. My iBook drive is
running out of storage.
My choices are:
1. Put iPhotos on my 30GB iPod. A short term fix, but that space will
get used up.
2. Put iPhotos on an SMB share and access via ethernet. I can always
add more storage to the SMB server (Win2K).
3. Buy a G5. (I refuse to do this until I see if Apple is going to fix
iPhoto's scaling issues!)
4. Buy another external drive for my iBook (besides the iPod).
5. Put a bigger drive in my iBook (requires servicing).
Of all of these I favor using the SMB share. I've done that with
iTunes with some success (others have had problems with file names
using characters that are not legal under Windows). Has anyone had
success with putting an iPhoto library on an SMB share? (I use iPhoto
Library Manager.)
john
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stefan pantke
Doe apple supply some technology to compress things transparently?
I mean, some compression, which is done by magic in background.
Am 14.08.2003 06:07 Uhr schrieb "John Faughnan" unter
<jfau...@spamcop.net> in 5c0dbfb4.03081...@posting.google.com:
Richard Kaszeta
> How about compressing some mac volume or folder?
>
> Doe apple supply some technology to compress things transparently?
> I mean, some compression, which is done by magic in background.
He's talking about digital images, which in general don't compress
very well (they are almost always compressed already).
I've run into a similar problem of photo management, I have around 150
GB of digital images, which is of course more than my 60 GB TiBook can
hold. I've ended up using an external firewire drive and copious
burning of old images to redundancd DVD-R's.
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Richard W Kaszeta
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In article <BB61B324.3240%seasi...@mac.com>,
stefan pantke <seasi...@mac.com> wrote:
>How about compressing some mac volume or folder?
>
>Doe apple supply some technology to compress things transparently?
>I mean, some compression, which is done by magic in background.
>
>
- - Unless you are using raw tiffs this will likely take up MORE
space rather than less. Jpg's are already compressed and one of
the oddities of compression algorithms is that if you compress
a file that's already compressed generally end up with a
slightly bigger file.
_ Booker C. Bense
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John Faughnan
> I've run into a similar problem of photo management, I have around 150
> GB of digital images, which is of course more than my 60 GB TiBook can
> hold. I've ended up using an external firewire drive and copious
> burning of old images to redundancd DVD-R's.
Presumably that's not 150GB in iPhoto! If it is, you're the world
iPhoto champ :-). What image management software are you using?
We are definitely entering the world of Terrabyte data management.
Within 12-24 months 10 Mpixel CMOS images may become fairly common. At
@10MB for a JPEG, a mere 5000 images is 50GB, or about 100 GB in
iPhoto. I don't want to think about non-compressed images. Forget
video.
Using DVDs reminds me of the days of 20MB drives and 360K floppies.
The ratio of fixed to disposable storate was 60:1. That's the ratio
between a 120GB drive and a 4GB DVD (30:1).
So, how will we tackle this? Terrabytes of storage on a laptop may
take a while. I think we need a central storage strategy with trickle
backup to an offsite server. My SMB question is a start in this
direction; SMB storage is dirt cheap.
So Apple's iLife customers are going to need Terrabyte local and
offsite storage solutions. Curious to see what Apple will do with .Mac
backup pricing :-)!!
john
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