iMovie library

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ReadyNas Firmware 6.10.05Mac OS: Bg Sur 11.4imovie&nbsp;10.2.4&nbsp;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. According to mac, I should be able to 'drag the file named iMovie Library to your external hard drive'. This is possible, however when I try to open the iMovie library (from the NAS), iMovie informs me that&nbsp;`Libraries cannot be saved at this location, The format of the selected hard disk or network volume is not supported. Select a different location.`&nbsp;I appreciate that this should be a Mac/ iMovie forum question, but I am not receiving any responses there.&nbsp;Any advice/ help is appreciated&nbsp;&nbsp;

michaelkenward · Answer

JezzaB&nbsp;wrote:
ReadyNas Firmware 6.10.05
Mac OS: Bg Sur 11.4
imovie&nbsp;10.2.4
&nbsp;

You have posted your message in the section of this community given over to General WiFi Routers (Non-Nighthawk). (This is easily done, given Netgear's complicated community structure.)

Many questions apply to different types of device, so there may be useful responses here, but there isn't much in common between a router and your ReadyNAS device, so you might get more help, and find earlier questions and answers specific to your device, in the appropriate section for your hardware. That's probably here:

ReadyNAS Network Storage: Official NETGEAR Community

I will ask the Netgear moderator to move your message.

In the meantime you could visit the support pages:

Support | NETGEAR

Feed in your model number and check the documentation for your hardware. Look at the label on the device for the model number.

You may have done this already. I can't tell from your message.

I mention it because Netgear stopped supplying printed manuals and CD versions some years ago and people sometimes miss the downloads.

antinode · Answer

&gt; [...] the dated one being in 2013 so probbaly not a fat lot of good.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Which one is "the dated one"?&nbsp; I see dates in both.&nbsp; Why would youthink that old information is necessarily bad information?&nbsp; Appletypically doesn't render old file systems obsolete very frequently.Especially ones which are used for large data collections, potentiallyannoying many significant customers.&nbsp; Which might explain why iMoviewants storage "formatted as APFS or Mac OS Extended (Journaled)".&nbsp; It'sold, too.&nbsp;&gt; [...] seek some alternative that hopefully will remain compatible with&gt; my NAS.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Ok with me.&nbsp; But if you had selected an NAS which offered a widerselection of file systems and/or file-sharing protocols, that is,including the ones which you were using, then you might have avoided theproblem.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Note that my first know-nothing guess ("create a pseudo-disk [...]")seems to be the accepted method to get an Apple-compatible file systemon a more limited storage system.&nbsp; Other people appear to cope with it.

StephenB · Answer

antinode&nbsp;wrote:
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But if you had selected an NAS which offered a widerselection of file systems and/or file-sharing protocols, that is,including the ones which you were using, then you might have avoided theproblem.
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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).
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If the library isn't shared, one could use iSCSI.&nbsp; This creates block storage (a virtual disk) on the NAS that can then be mounted and formatted in any file system on the Mac.
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Though I think a better approach would be to use a different application - plex for instance.

antinode · Answer

&gt; [...] I have seen some dated posts similar to this, [...]&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I haven't.&nbsp; Thanks for the helpful links.&nbsp; Were any of those "somedated posts" in some appropriate (ReadyNAS) forum?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; https://community.netgear.com/t5/x/ct-p/readynas&nbsp;&gt; [...] According to mac, I should be able to [...]&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Where, exactly, did you find that nugget?&nbsp;&gt; [...] The format of the selected hard disk or network volume is not&gt; supported. Select a different location.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; And the "format of the selected hard disk or network volume" is_what_, exactly?&nbsp; Do we know which file system(s) iMovie supports?&nbsp;&nbsp; Or the file-sharing protocols which are supported by your NAS?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; "External storage device" and "Network Attached Storage" are spelleddifferently for a reason.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203049&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; You can store your library on an external storage device such as a&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; USB Thunderbolt drive formatted as APFS or Mac OS Extended&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (Journaled).&nbsp; Apple doesn't recommend storing iMovie libraries on&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; external storage devices like SD cards and USB flash drives, or&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; drives shared on a network.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I do nothing significant with iMovie, so I know nothing, includingexactly how iMovie access its library, and just how much you might beable to get away with when network access is required to use it.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 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 Macto 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 OSExtended (Journaled)"), and see if I could get something like that towork, but my expectations would be low.&nbsp; (Too many layers of softwareinvolved.)&nbsp; But what do I know?

antinode · Answer

&nbsp;&nbsp; I still know nothing, but a quick Web search found something whichmight be interesting:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5467989

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