APPLE IPHOTO doesn’t allow you to …
… easily mange the size of the Photo Library.
And, the backup function is lame. There’s no way to do a backup to an external drive except by doing individual exports.
It would have been trivial to allow it, but they didn’t.
One can only imagine that the decision to implement this way was to drive sales to Time Machine or Mobile Me. Clearly, that might be speculation. But, it fits how I see APPLE. Exploitive. The software is designed and implemented in a way that’s best for APPLE; not the User. imho
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IPHOTO is unsuitable for use on the MACBOOKAIR due to limited hard disk space and the software’s inability to compensate for that.
When one imports pictures into IPHOTO from a camera, that is the easiest time to create the external backup.
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