Is there a way to move my dinosaur imacs iphoto contents to my icloud? I have googled to no help. Icloud is not an option in system preferences.
I tried going to the icloud website but the issue is this imac is SO out of date the browser cannot run the site and it is so SLOW. My kids baby pictures are on this imac and I want to save them. Please tell me its not impossible.
It's not impossible. You'll just need to move them to a new machine first. Perhaps a flash drive, external hard drive, or even just email the pictures to yourself. Then upload those into iCloud.
Not the easiest thing to do, but not impossible...
You could try connecting the external drive directly to your phone (you'll need an adapter). Then use the files app to copy over images in bulk. (probably copy into files, not photos yet, to upload everything. Then, later, you can add files individually to photos).
Or, connect the external drive, open the photos app and see if the "import" option appears at the bottom. Then you could import all of the photos right onto your phone. Again, you might want to do smaller batches first to ensure things copy correctly and that space is available).
Or, you could take the drive to a library or other location, log into iCloud.com/photos, and upload small batches... You could also just upload the entire folder into iCloud Drive.
I do have everything on an external hard drive. I do not have a new machine though, only my phone. How would I move them from the external to the cloud? We are talking about like 5000 photos.
Old Imac Iphoto to icloud
