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15 hours ago I then filled the laptop hard drive again with another iPhoto library (lets call it Library 2) The old back up drive has a USB3 cable too. I updated the software on my old laptop to I think it's Sierra now which has photos and it migrated all the photos on the Mac from iPhoto to Photos which is good. I have now bought a Macbook pro 2017 13.
- Jun 11, 2012 Be sure you have the external hard drive you want to put your iPhoto Library and files on is connected. Then, open your home folder, then the Pictures folder within. Find the iPhoto Library.
- For copying iPhoto library to a new Mac: Connect your external hard drive. When it displays on Finder, drag the iPhoto Library folder or package to external hard drive. Eject the hard drive from your old Mac and connect it to this new one. Now open iPhoto on the new computer.
By Stephen Robles
Saturday, January 24, 2015, 11:00 pm PT (02:00 am ET)
Before starting the process, we suggest making an up to date Time Machine backup of your computer to an external hard drive or Time Capsule. Be sure the external hard drive you use to perform this backup is a separate unit from the one you will move the iPhoto Library to should anything happen.
If you have an account with a cloud storage service, such as Dropbox, Google Drive or even iCloud Drive, you can also upload the iPhoto Library to these services for extra redundancy.
To begin moving your library, open iPhoto, click File in the Menu Bar and select Switch to Library.
A new window will appear listing any and all iPhoto Libraries detected on your computer. If you're not sure where the iPhoto Library file is located, look at the (Default) listing and the file path will be listed underneath. This should be located in the Pictures folder of your Home directory.
Quit iPhoto by going to Quit iPhoto in the iPhoto Menu Bar or pressing Cmd+Q. Connect the external hard drive that you will use to copy the iPhoto Library. You should see it appear on your desktop.
Open a new Finder window and click Pictures in the left sidebar. Click and drag the iPhoto Library file onto the external hard drive icon on your Desktop.
Depending on how large your library is and the connection speed of the external drive, it may take several minutes or longer to complete the copy process.
Once the copy is completed, hold the Option key on your keyboard and open iPhoto from the Dock or Applications folder. A new window will pop up asking you to Create a New Library, Choose the Selected Library or Other Library. Click on Other Library.
In the browser window that appears, navigate to your external hard drive, click the iPhoto Library file you've copied and click Choose.
iPhoto will open and as long as the external hard drive is connected, will reference the library on the external drive and not on your computer's drive.
How To Move Iphoto Library To External Hard Drive Machine
Quit iPhoto once again and eject the external hard drive holding your new iPhoto Library. Open a new Finder window and navigate to the Pictures folder in the left sidebar again.How To Transfer Photos To External Drive
Right click or Ctrl+click on the iPhoto file and move it to the Trash.
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Finally, to free up the space on your internal hard drive, open the Trash from the Dock or Finder window and click Empty Trash in the upper right corner.Your iPhoto Library has officially been removed from the internal drive. You can now reconnect the external hard drive you used to copy the iPhoto library, open iPhoto and use it as normal.
If you open iPhoto without your external hard drive connected, iPhoto will give you an error message saying the 'Library cannot be found.' Quit iPhoto, connect the external hard drive and reopen to fix.
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Dear Larry, Cisco anyconnect 4.6 and apple mac unable to download library.
The person asking the question, DIPSAUS, says that he (she) only has a PC type computer now, and he states that he does not have an Apple computer any longer. Therefore using the method I suggested to open up his (or her) Library to get the photos out of it would not be a disaster.
He also states 'That is worrisome. Now, I cannot retrieve 1000-5000 pictures.' So it is clear that his main concern is getting his photos back.
The process that I have suggested WILL enable him to get his photos back. I have done it a few times and it has not resulted in a disaster.
And my answer is not directed at 'most people', it is just directed to DIPSAUS and his problem of getting his '1000-5000 pictures' back.