Solved: I upgraded and have 1 TB of space in my Dropbox. My mac and pc are turned off so the iPhone has no access to them but yet EVERY FILE is. WD My Passport® For Mac 1TB External Portable Hard Drive, Black is rated 4.6 out of 5 by 63. Trusted and loved portable storage for Mac. Reimagined design. The My Passport for Mac portable drive is trusted to store the massive amounts of photos, videos and music you love.
Note that none of your questions have any thing to do with iPhoto - for specific answer on how to use yoru MyPassport disk you need to contact their suppor tor support forums
By default the iPhoto library is stored in your Pictures folder (not in a my Pictures folder - not sure where you got that) - if you do not have a Pictures folder then you have deleted it - it is there by default on all new Macs
In general for a drive to be used as storage for your iPhoto library it must be formatted Mac OS extended (journaled) - you can check this by selecting the drive in the finder and getting info - it is is not formatted mac OS extended (journaled) you can reformat it using the MyPassport software or disk utility in your applications folder (note that this erases everything on the disk)
Once you have an extrenal drive that is formatted Mac OS extended (journaled)
Google facebook for mac os. Moving the iPhoto library is safe and simple - quit iPhoto and drag the iPhoto library intact as a single entity to the external drive - depress the option key and launch iPhoto using the 'select library' option to point to the new location on the external drive - fully test it and then trash the old library on the internal drive (test one more time prior to emptying the trash)
And be sure that the External drive is formatted Mac OS extended (journaled) (iPhoto does not work with drives with other formats) and that it is always available prior to launching iPhoto
And backup soon and often - having your iPhoto library on an external drive is not a backup and if you are using Time Machine you need to check and be sure that TM is backing up your external drive
For iMovie support it is best to post in the iMovie forum
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The drive is probably physically damaged. It doesn't take much of a bump to damage them. Professional data recovery is likely the only solution. Joe Well, yeah.
Dropping the drive on the floor even from 12-16 inches will break it. Sorry, but if you need the data, you're looking at data recovery, and that's if they can help you. Dropping included, you have several kinds of issues that arise that can cause a drive not to read.
The drive itself is broken, which means you can only possibly retrieve your data through data reco.