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iMovie library
ReadyNas Firmware 6.10.05 Mac OS: Bg Sur 11.4 imovie 10.2.4 Hello, I have seen some dated posts similar to this, but nothing recent. I am simply trying to move my iMovie library to my NAS. Acco...
> [...] I have seen some dated posts similar to this, [...]
I haven't. Thanks for the helpful links. Were any of those "some
dated posts" in some appropriate (ReadyNAS) forum?
https://community.netgear.com/t5/x/ct-p/readynas
> [...] According to mac, I should be able to [...]
Where, exactly, did you find that nugget?
> [...] The format of the selected hard disk or network volume is not
> supported. Select a different location.
And the "format of the selected hard disk or network volume" is
_what_, exactly? Do we know which file system(s) iMovie supports?
Or the file-sharing protocols which are supported by your NAS?
"External storage device" and "Network Attached Storage" are spelled
differently for a reason.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203049
You can store your library on an external storage device such as a
USB Thunderbolt drive formatted as APFS or Mac OS Extended
(Journaled). Apple doesn't recommend storing iMovie libraries on
external storage devices like SD cards and USB flash drives, or
drives shared on a network.
I do nothing significant with iMovie, so I know nothing, including
exactly how iMovie access its library, and just how much you might be
able to get away with when network access is required to use it.
I suspect that you're doomed, but, If I had some time to kill, and
"Apple doesn't recommend" didn't stop me, then I might try to use a Mac
to create a pseudo-disk ("sparse bundle") on my NAS, use Disk Utility
(or something) to create a Mac-like file system on it ("APFS or Mac OS
Extended (Journaled)"), and see if I could get something like that to
work, but my expectations would be low. (Too many layers of software
involved.) But what do I know?
I still know nothing, but a quick Web search found something which
might be interesting:
thanks, you found both the articles that I rerferred to, the dated one being in 2013 so probbaly not a fat lot of good.
Im not tech savy so can't answer your questions about which file system(s) iMovie supports, or the file-sharing protocols which are supported by your NAS.
I certainly dont have time to venture into the world of sparse bundles, so I will retire from iMovie and seek some alternative that hopefully will remain compatible with my NAS.
> [...] the dated one being in 2013 so probbaly not a fat lot of good.
Which one is "the dated one"? I see dates in both. Why would you
think that old information is necessarily bad information? Apple
typically doesn't render old file systems obsolete very frequently.
Especially ones which are used for large data collections, potentially
annoying many significant customers. Which might explain why iMovie
wants storage "formatted as APFS or Mac OS Extended (Journaled)". It's
old, too.> [...] seek some alternative that hopefully will remain compatible with
> my NAS.Ok with me. But if you had selected an NAS which offered a wider
selection of file systems and/or file-sharing protocols, that is,
including the ones which you were using, then you might have avoided the
problem.Note that my first know-nothing guess ("create a pseudo-disk [...]")
seems to be the accepted method to get an Apple-compatible file system
on a more limited storage system. Other people appear to cope with it.
antinode wrote:
But if you had selected an NAS which offered a wider
selection of file systems and/or file-sharing protocols, that is,
including the ones which you were using, then you might have avoided the
problem.One of the article above points out that Apple doesn't recommend moving the iMovie library to any shared network drive (e.g., any NAS).
If the library isn't shared, one could use iSCSI. This creates block storage (a virtual disk) on the NAS that can then be mounted and formatted in any file system on the Mac.
Though I think a better approach would be to use a different application - plex for instance.
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