Q: New to iPhoto - Converting from Windows 7
Hi all - firstly though let me say that I've tried locating my answer online but nothing I've found seems to fit my situation.
I've recently converted to a new 27" iMac from years of being tied a PC (latest version Win7). My primary reason being that I have many Apple products (iPhone, iPad, AppleTV, and iTunes account) and believed this was the last piece of the puzzle to fully convert me.
However, my problem now is that I have gig's of photos currently stored on an external harddrive (format FAT32) under a file structure like PHOTOS/YEAR/EVENT which has worked well for me on Win7 and either Windows Photo or Picasa, that I cannot seem to work how to integrate into iPhoto.
It appears to me that iPhoto will only let me import the photos into iPhoto - thus creating duplicates, and storing them what appears to be on my iMac internal harddrive. Is there a way to simply have iPhoto pointed/looking at my external harddrive without having duplicates, or loosing my current file structure?
When importing new photos from a camera, iphone, ipad etc I want to be able to define which photos are stored where, and in the past have been using Windows Explorer, or presumably Finder (under OSX). I also have Parallels installed, so not sure if I can utilise Windows Explorer to manage the import, but still use iPhoto as the hub to integrate into my other Apple devices.
Appreciate some guidance, or pointers to good (and recent - say within last 6-12 mths) discussions about how others may have resolved this similar conversion / integration issue.
Regards
Darran
iMac (27-inch, Late 2012), OS X Mavericks (10.9)
Posted on Nov 28, 2013 6:50 PM