I have an old macbook pro running iphoto and i would like to merge the iphoto library into Photos on my Mac. However, I can't seem to copy the Iphoto library onto an external harddrive allowing for merging later on the Imac. Any ideas would be much appreciated, thanks!
I can't seem to copy the Iphoto library onto an external harddrive
How are you trying? and where does it fail? any error messages?
Also, what format is the drive? It should be formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
I can't seem to copy the Iphoto library onto an external harddrive
How are you trying? and where does it fail? any error messages?
Also, what format is the drive? It should be formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
How is the external HD formatted?
Here's how one could do what you want:
1 - copy the iPhoto Library to an external HD that is formatted as shown in this screenshot:'
2 - connect the EHD to the iMac and open with Photos to migrate the iPhoto Library to a Photos library.
3 - use the paid version of PowerPhotos to copy the albums and original image files with metadata from the newly created Photos library to your existing Photos library.
Hi. Thanks for your reply. It turned out that the external drive wasn't formatted, which I thought it was. So I did and it worked. Next up is merging the 2 Photos libraries.... Thanks!
Thanks a lot. will do!
Backing up iPhoto library to external drive doesn't work - and I need to merge to Photos on my iMac
