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Dec 19, 2014 6:06 AM in response to teckmomby léonie,I do have an external hard drive.
The safest method would be to use your external hard drive as a sneaker drive. Keep the iPhoto library on the external drive and plug it into the mac you are currently working with. The drive should be formatted as described here: Use locally mounted Mac OS X Extended volumes for your Aperture library
The other option would be to keep a small iPhoto Library on your MacBook Pro, with the new photos you are currently working on. When you are done, use a tool like iPhoto Library Manager to merge your iPhoto Library from the MacBook Pro into the main library on your iMac.
Perhaps you should wait till next year for your setup.
Apple announced that the new Photos.app for Mac to rereleased next year, will support iCloud Photo Library (Beta). That will allow you to store the photo library in iCloud and to work on it from several devices. Right now, it is only available from mobile devices with iOS 8 and from the iCloud webpage: iCloud Photo Library beta FAQ
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Dec 19, 2014 6:21 AM in response to léonieby teckmom,use a tool like iPhoto Library Manager to merge your iPhoto Library from the MacBook Pro into the main library on your iMac.
Where can I find information on iPhoto Library Manager and how to use it?? Also I probebly wouldn't start till next year. I'm a planer and I'm trying to justify spending the money on the mac book and TC Thanks for all your help
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Dec 19, 2014 6:53 AM in response to teckmomby léonie,Where can I find information on iPhoto Library Manager and how to use it??
You can download iPhoto Library Manager here:
Fat Cat Software – iPhoto Library Manager
For many tasks the free trial will suffice, but to use it for merging Libraries you need the paid full version.
See the Help page (http://www.fatcatsoftware.com/iplm/Help/table%20of%20contents.html), i.e. Merging libraries from two different Macs