[Ham-Mac] RE: "How to Screw Up Your Hard Drive: Ham-Mac Digest, Vol 26, Issue 10

[Jim_Alternate Baker]

I'd like to know how to "import" photos into iPhoto that I have stored on my 
hard drive without copying them into the iPhoto library.  Kind of like how 
iTunes handles music files.  I don't need two copies of every photo I had 
stored on the hard drive before I started using iPhoto.  (OK, this may not 
be ham radio, but I'm new to OS X and need advice.  Thanks!)


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>Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 04:00:48 -0500 (EST)
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>    1. How to Screw up your HD (Dick Kriss, AA5VU)
>    2. Re: How to Screw up your HD (Rick Prather)
>    3. Re: How to Screw up your HD (Bob Nielsen)
>    4. Re: How to Screw up your HD (Dick Kriss, AA5VU)
>    5. Re: How to Screw up your HD (Bob Nielsen)
>    6. Re: How to Screw up your HD (Dick Kriss, AA5VU)
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>Message: 1
>Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 11:34:40 -0600
>From: "Dick Kriss, AA5VU" <aa5vu at sbcglobal.net>
>Subject: [Ham-Mac] How to Screw up your HD
>To: ham-mac <ham-mac at mailman.qth.net>
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>I did something really dumb this morning and finally recovered.  I was in
>iPhoto selecting five pictures to drag copy to a compact flash card.  I 
>used
>the Select All command and started the copy.   Something did not look right
>then I realized I was in my Library rather than an Album folder and iPhoto
>was copying my whole library of photos to the desktop because I messed up
>dragging them to CF card.  The G4 was going crazy so I hit the panic button
>the front to force a restart.  It restarted but OSX 10.4.5 could not mount
>the desktop.  I had and endless spinning disc.
>
>I could not remember the keyboard combination to force the machine to boot
>from another drive so I messed around with until I could get the DVD drive
>open to be able to insert and boot from the OSX 10.4 startup disc.  Finally
>got it to boot and used the Startup option to boot from my Backup HD.  It
>worked find the recovery was to trash the Desktop file from the Primary
>drive and replace it with a copy from the Backup drive.  I did not want to
>do full backup from the backup because I did not want to lose some new 
>stuff
>that was not backed up.  I then had to use the Disc Utility to mount the
>Primary drive so it could be selected as the startup drive. While I had the
>Disc Utility open I repaired the primary drive.  It all worked and I am now
>back on the Primary HD. Humpty-Dumpty is back together again.
>
>The moral to this shaggy-dog story is NEVER use the iPhoto Select All if 
>you
>are in the Library.  Everything is now working great thanks to Carbon Copy
>Cloner and having a good backup drive.
>
>I was trying to do too many things at the same time really messed up.
>
>TNX for reading
>
>73, Dick AA5VU