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Getting all photos on MacBook Pro off to a USB drive

Hello - I'd appreciate it anyone could help with this! I have done some searching and can't seem to find the answer that applies to me. I am giving up my 2015 MacBook Pro, which is running Big Sur 11.7.6. All I want to keep from it are the photos. I have a few thousand .jpg and/or .jpeg files that I would like to copy off to a flash drive. I tried using Finder to copy and paste the entire "Photos Library", I found that to be almost worthless, because after copying that library onto my windows 11 machine, the pics were all jumbled up in any number of little folders. I just want to find and cleanly copy out the jpgs. That's all. I don't want to preserve iphoto, or "events", or any other part of Apple's idea about how the pics should be organized. Thank you for reading and passing on any ideas.

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Posted on Apr 22, 2023 8:09 AM

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léonie

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Posted on Apr 22, 2023 1:42 PM

To get the photos onto an external drive as JPEGs, select the photos in Photos in the "All Photos" album and use the command "File > Export > export ...photos". In the Export dialog select the original size and high quality, also to include the locations and other metadata.

Additionally I would use "File > Export > Export unmodified originals" to save the high resolution originals in addition to the edited versions.

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