Today Jenn wanted to add photos to our library from the CSU vs. CU game yesterday (
9news report of the game), but couldn't because there was no free space out of the originally allotted 20GB. She told me about this and I looked at how to do this. The good part is that it is actually very easy. Because we have separate accounts I set up our iPhoto library as suggested by Apple
here (sparse image placed in shared users folder). Here are the steps taken to expand my volume from 20GB to 40GB:
- Unmount your sparse image
- Open Terminal
- Type
- hdiutil resize -size 40g iPhotoLibrary.sparseimage
- Mount your sparse image and load photos
After you do step 4 and look at the available size (command-i) you may ask your self why it is not reporting the size you requested. The reason is because 40g is actually (2^20) * 40 = 41,943,040 in base 2.
Hope you enjoyed.
