This 200 gb drive in my MBP is just killing me

[DP]

What everyone else says: Backup, backup, backup! Get a cheap external. You should never have everything in just one place.

[Black]

WHiiP wrote:
You do have a backup, right? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

Even if you do, why don't you move all the photos to a DVD or two (3, 4, 5, etc.) and take those with you? You could even organize them on the DVDs. Why must you make this process harder than it has to be? ? ? ?



EDIT: spelling correction . . . actually, a typing correction!

That's supposed to be an easier solution?
:banghead:

[hal]

Get s spiffy seagate 7200.4 500GB drive. You can get them for under $100.

Your applecare is not affected (assuming that the machine isn't destroyed during the upgrade), but of course, applecare will not replace the drive if it fails (seagate will however)

[guitarist]

Do you have a desktop computer as well? Or only one computer, a laptop.

iPhoto has networking features built in. You can access your iPhoto library from within iPhoto on any machine on your local network that has permission to view it. If you wanted, you could set up a computer as a home base, to store half a Terabyte of photos, any amount you want, and view them across the network on WiFi, or ethernet network, all within iPhoto.

Or just store some of your collection externally. Get a big-ass external HD. They're cheap and plentiful. One Terabyte of HD storage is less than 100 bucks.

It's insane to have hundreds of GIGABYTES of photos all stored on your boot drive. If it were me, I'd want to transfer most of them to a different location. It's unlikely that I'd need to immediately view any one of hundreds of thousands of photographs at the snap of a finger. A few thousand photos will fit onto a few GBs. I could put 5-10 thousand photos on an 8-16 GB thumb drive. How many photos do you have in iPhoto? Eight million?

[hal]

dontcha love it when people answer questions that weren't asked?

"It's insane to have hundreds of GIGABYTES of photos all stored on your boot drive."

not if you NEED them...

"If it were me..."

it isn't

"It's unlikely that I'd need to immediately view any one of hundreds of thousands of photographs at the snap of a finger."

that's nice...