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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...
> [...] 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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