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hi,
my dad has a large number of hi-res photos on his laptop from his dSLR. the
laptop only has a 20gb HD and he's always running out of space (even though
i bought him an 80gb external drive. he hasn't got his head around backups
and moving stuff between drives...)

he uses iPhoto to organise his photos and i'm wondering, if i back up all
his original photos is it possible to then batch downsample the whole iPhoto
library to free up some disk space. (this would also make iPhoto run a lot
quicker!). it would mean he can keep all his lower res copies in iPhoto
'just for looking at' but if he ever needs the original hi-res images,
they'll be on the external HD.

any other suggestions?
(i might persuade him to turn down the resolution on the camera too! how
often do people ACTUALLY need 4000x3000 pixel images?)

chris

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