how do I save photos from iphoto to external hd without Time Machine?

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how do I save photos from iphoto to external hd without Time Machine?

I have a seagate 320gb freeagent external hard drive and would like to know how to save my iphoto pictures on it. I cant seem to drag & drop folders from the application & Help only mentions using Time Machine which I dont particularly want to do (I had a Lacie hd connected to Time Machine & it made a very loud humming noise then I knocked it over so that was that, so now I'm starting again with the Seagate). Please could someone explain in very simple language how I can achieve this as I need to back up a couple of thousand photos to make room on my imac.
Thankyou
Sara

imac intel, Mac OS X (10.5)

Posted on Aug 3, 2009 10:24 AM

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Answer 1

Yer_Man

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Aug 3, 2009 10:26 AM in response to sara holifield

Sara

Use a back up utility such as DejaVu to make incremental back ups of your Library. The first time you run it it will back up the entire Library, thereafter it will keep the back up up-to-date with the changes in your Library. There are other apps that will do this job. Search on MacUpdate

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TD

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Answer 2

LarryHN

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Aug 3, 2009 11:03 AM in response to sara holifield

If you are trying to increase space rather than make a backup then consider moving your iPhoto library to the external drive and running it from there

Quit iPhoto, drag the iPhoto library intact as a single entity to the external drive and depress the option (alt) key and launch iPhoto - select the library on the external drive and test it - once you are happy with it quit iPhoto and delete the library on the internal drive - launch iPhoto again and be sure everything is good and then empty the trash

LN

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