In regard of exporting, you have a point but I am also thinking about backups that I want to do perhaps by the year. This is the Apple’s way to backup and sync photos from all iOS devices and Mac with ease. Actually, I want my Mac respectively iPhoto to move the pictures and change the file names for me. Navigate to the new location on your external hard drive and choose the Photo Library. Apple provides iCloud Photo Library and Photos applications on Mac to make the backup photos from iPhone much easier. On that window hit the button Other library. You will see a new window to choose the library.Keep holding the keyboard key until you see a window otherwise this will open the Photos app. If you unfortunately lost some important photos during the transfer, you can use Any Data Recovery for Mac.
Thats for how to move iPhoto library to a new location or a new Mac. When transferred completed, press and hold the Option/Alt key from keyboard and click the Photos app icon from Dock to open it. Hold down the Option key on the keyboard, and keep the Option key held down until you are prompted to create or choose an iPhoto library.The time of transferring photos depends on the size of your Photo Library. The latter reveal the location in the Mac Finder. It’s time to copy your Photos Library to your external hard drive using drag and drop trick.Now you can make sure that you have enough storage in your external hard drive. TIP: In order to see how much storage your photos have taken, just Ctrl+Click on the photos library icon and click on Get Info. Open the Pictures folder and there you will find the Photos library.Click the Go menu on the top and then select Home option from the menu. In finder window click on GO Click on Home Scroll down the left hand side menu to Pictures The iPhoto package appears which can be dragged to the desktop, a removable usb drive or whatever. By the way, you can also recover permanently or recently deleted photos from iPhoto on Mac with ease.
Find the Photos Library on your Mac, it will be in your Pictures folder. Apple shouldnt make this so complicated to do. You can recover deleted iPhoto library on Mac with or without Time Machine backup here.Use the Disk Utility on your Mac to erase any hard drive (When you erase any drive in mac everything will be deleted, so please save any important data ). By default, iPhoto is a photo management program which comes standard on every Mac computer. With OS X 10.10.3, Apples new Photos app, meant to replace both iPhoto and Aperture for people managing photos and video clips on their Mac, is now. Where iPhoto Pictures Are Stored iPhoto pictures are stored within the home /Pictures/ directory, in.
If it is not formatted for Mac first erase all the data from it and format and choose the option of Mac OS Extended (journaled). Do note this location will change when iPhoto app turns into Photos app for OS X.
Before going step by step to move your photo library to external hard, first make it sure that your external hard drive is already formatted for Mac OS Extended (journaled).