How do I back up my iPhoto Library onto a CD?

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How do I back up my iPhoto Library onto a CD?

I selected 6 albums in my iPhoto Library to burn to a CD. I chose my Desktop as the location to receive them. When I went to drag the 6 folders onto the disk's icon, there were a ZILLION little folders there, ------every one of them were individual photos, all on top of one another! It has taken me two hours and I've dragged some pictures 3 times and missed others ---- it's a mess!

What's the best and easiest way to do this from now on?
Thanks for any guidance ---specific, please.

Tiger, Mac OS X (10.4.11)

Posted on Aug 14, 2010 2:14 AM

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Answer 1

Yer_Man

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Aug 14, 2010 2:42 AM in response to Ammie

Select the pics in the iPhoto Window and go File-> Export and send them to a Folder on the desktop. Burn that with the Finder.

Note that this +does not back up your Library+. For that you need to use the Share -> Burn command

Regards

TD

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Ammie Author

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Aug 14, 2010 12:34 PM in response to Yer_Man

Thank you for this help! As I carefully read your reply I realized the key word was to send them to a "FOLDER" on the desktop, and I previously hadn't even noticed the place where I was to "create a folder" before sending them. So I tried that on my next batch and it went very well --- and so much quicker!!

But I don't understand why you say that this is not backing up my photos. They are getting put on CDs, so why is that not a backup? Where and when would I find the "Share -> Burn" command if I wanted to do that?

Thanks again!

Ammie (for "Grammy"---as if you couldn't tell!

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