Why so large of a boot drive

[Ryan P]

Don't know how you guys do it. My boot drive material is about 1/2 Gig. Movies, photos, TV, etc are all on other internal drives but OSX + iTunes + iPhoto + A3 backup libraries pushed past 500MB a while ago. That keeps SSDs out of my range for a couple of years or so I guess.

I can't speak to iPhoto and A3 as I don't use them, but with iTunes you can easily relocate off of the boot partition. It is just a menu option in advanced settings. It will still keep the index files on the SSD but move all the media off to another drive. My iTunes media files are almost 1 Terabyte and my index files in my user directory are just a bit over 250MB's.

I wouldn't recommend it, but you can use symbolic links to move the index files off the SSD as well. In fact, with symbolic links you can move just about anything anywhere in OS X.

 

[Inconsequential]

Thank you for looking up your catalog size for me. This is where the problem lies. I am tired of moving catalogs around and working that way. My current LR3 catalog is 67 GB and it only covers the last month of photos that I have, 23,000 images (this is the LR3 Catalog not the original raw files which are on the media storage drive). At that rate even the 240 GB SSD would not last long and I am not going to pay the price for a 500GB unit right now. So while I would love to put it on an SSD I just cant see it right now.

How is your library larger than mine with less images?!?

Have you set the previews to 2560 and max res or something?

 

[rmitchell248]

How is your library larger than mine with less images?!?

Have you set the previews to 2560 and max res or something?

I am not exactly sure! I was wondering the same thing but it is surely the case, I will go make sure my previews are not too large.