Q: Move part of Photo Library
Hi All,
I am currently using a MacBook Pro 2013 running Yosemite 10.10.5. I have 750GB internal storage however it's all but full. Most of that storage is filled with photos and videos. I bought an 2TB external hard drive and partitioned it, one for time machine and another for storage. I have over 300GB of photos and videos, some of it dating back to 2008. I don't want to send all of those photos into storage, just everything up until last year. (time machine has everything backed up anyway) I tried doing this manually, section by section, but it was becoming a right mess. Files were being duplicated in the external drive, sometimes up to 8 duplicates of the same photo. The order went all out of sync even when put in date order and some photos have the same name. I have found instructions on how to move an entire library over to an external hard drive, but then I got confused about this then becoming your default library or something?? I don't want to change the default location of the library I just want to put some of the library into storage, without making a mess. Anyway, I suppose my question is this:
1. How do I move only part of my Photos library to an external hard drive, in one go, without losing order and without making the hard drive my default library?
Also, I loved iPhoto. I didn't realise it at the time but now we have Photos, I loved iPhoto. When it updated about a year ago I just left it, because I assumed it had to be this way. Now that I'm attempting to move this into storage i realise again how poor Photos is, so....
2. Is it too late to revert back to iPhoto? if I do how do I move all the newly imported (the last year) photos over to iPhoto as well?
I wouldn't say my technical ability on Mac is that great at all so any help is appreciated.
Cheers
OS X Yosemite (10.10.5)
Posted on May 30, 2016 9:59 PM