Moving Pieces Of Photo Library To External Drive Mac

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By default, iPhoto is a photo management program which comes standard on every Mac computer. But if you want change your Mac computer to Windows PC, then you need to transfer you all data from Mac to Windows PC. The most important thing is your photos and videos. You can transfer all your photos from iPhoto to Windows with simple steps. To do so, open 'iPhoto' on your Mac and select all your photos to transfer. Click 'File' menu and select 'Export' option. A 'File Export' window opens up. Select 'Original' option in 'Kind' and 'Event Name' option in the 'Subfolder Format' and then click 'Export' button. This will give you the photos in folder which represents the 'Events' in your iPhoto Library. Now you must export the entire event to Windows PC. Go to 'Events' view and select the event which you want to export. You may have to export all photos by year to make file management easier on the Windows PC. Make sure that you have enough storage space on your hard drive before doing this procedure. If you don't have enough storage space, then hust export a few albums from iPhoto and then delete them. If you choose 'Original' in 'File Type', iPhoto will not embed the keywords and GPS data in your exported photos.
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Moving Pieces Of Photo Library To External Drive Mac Pc

Here are the steps to Move Your Mac's iPhoto Library onto an External Drive: Open 'iPhoto' on your Mac. Click 'File' located in the Menu Bar. Select 'Switch to Library.' A new window opens up. You will see all iPhoto libraries located on your computer. Quit iPhoto by clicking on 'Quit iPhoto' located in the iPhoto Menu bar. Connect an external hard dive to move your iPhoto Library. Open a new Finder window and click 'Pictures' located in the left sidebar. Drag and drop iPhoto. Copy the Photos Library from your Pictures Folder to the External Disk. Hold down the option (or alt) key while launching Photos. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library' and navigate to the new location. From that point on this will be the default location of your library.