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On 3 Jul 2007, at 15:50, Chris Dawson wrote:

> 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?)
>

For batch resizing (and similar), Automator is the way forward.