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How to copy iPhoto album to another iMac

I have separately downloaded the same photos to 2 different iMacs. On one of these, I painstakingly set up a few iPhoto albums to display these photos in the desired order. (There are about 150 photos in each album. These were selected from nearly 2,000 photos.) I would like to copy these albums intact to my other iMac, which is at a different location (and therefore, not directly accessible.)

Is there a way to export or copy an iPhoto album to an external USB drive and then import it into another iMac in such a way, so as to avoid duplicating photos that are already on the new machine, yet still preserving the order of photos in the original album?

iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.3), iLife 2008

Posted on Apr 22, 2010 11:51 AM

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Apr 22, 2010 12:31 PM in response to sws01

There is no "album folder" - albums are simply logical entries in the iPhoto library database

You can:

Connect the two machines together and use IPLM to move selected photos; or

connect the two machines together and copy the entire iPhoto library over; or

Export the photos on one machine and import them to the other machine - the first two are best as they keep the order and all attributes of the photos

LN

How to copy iPhoto album to another iMac

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