Nathan Guinle
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Q: Hw to move iPhoto movies to External Harddrive

The main hard drive of my mac is filling up. So I need to move some files to an external HD (Drobo to be precise).

I use iPhoto to import my photos and (HD) videos from my digital camera & iPhone.

I want to keep all my images in iPhoto, but I'd like to move the space consuming videos to another medium.

Is there simple, possibly automated way to move all the video files (H.264) that are in my iPhoto library to an external folder?

iMac 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, Mac OS X (10.7), TV, Ipod Touch, mac mini, ipods

Posted on Apr 11, 2012 6:45 AM

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Q: Hw to move iPhoto movies to External Harddrive

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  • by Terence Devlin,

    Terence Devlin Terence Devlin Apr 11, 2012 7:00 AM in response to Nathan Guinle
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    Apr 11, 2012 7:00 AM in response to Nathan Guinle

    To find all the movies in iPhoto:

     

    File ->New Smart Album

     

    Photo ->is -> Movie

     

    To export them:

     

    FIle -> Export and set the Kind to Original

     

    Regards

     

     

    TD


  • by Nathan Guinle,

    Nathan Guinle Nathan Guinle Apr 11, 2012 9:48 PM in response to Terence Devlin
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    Apr 11, 2012 9:48 PM in response to Terence Devlin

    So I did as you suggested.

    It came up with a large list.

    I then tried as you suggested

    "FIle -> Export and set the Kind to Original"

    no luck....

    Voila_Capture284.png

    I came up with a ton of files that when clicked on I got this

    I rebuilt iphoto....

    Got the same result (many of these older files were taken on a camera that produced .mpg files..

    The more recent videos that were taken with the iphone were just fine...

    When going to the event I got the same thing.....??

     

    Finally I edited the playlist to just include iphone videos.

    I was easily able to export those videos to an external HD.

    But now how does one mass delete these files?

    Or do I have to go to each event , find the movie, then delete from iphoto?


  • by francoc1981,

    francoc1981 francoc1981 Sep 4, 2016 9:28 AM in response to Terence Devlin
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    Sep 4, 2016 9:28 AM in response to Terence Devlin

    Hi there, i got an error while doing this.

    Screen Shot 2016-09-04 at 12.52.39 pm.png

     

    I m getting crazy on how to just send/copy my videos on an external LACIE HD.

    just wanna have them there, so I can free space on my 256gb ram macbook pro

    thanks in advance

  • by LarryHN,

    LarryHN LarryHN Sep 4, 2016 3:42 PM in response to francoc1981
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    Photos for Mac
    Sep 4, 2016 3:42 PM in response to francoc1981

    You realize that this thread has been dormant for over 4 years and is about totally different software than you are using

     

    Please create a new post including the specifics of your system and your problem in the Photos for Mac forum - Photos for Mac

     

    Thsi article will help you write an answerable question - Writing an effective Apple Support Communities question

     

    LN