how to backup all my photos from iphoto to my new time capsule

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You can use your Time Capsule to store files or to make backups, and I recommend you to use it to make backups with Time Machine. Open System Preferences > Time Machine > Select Disk, and select the Time Capsule, so Time Machine will start making backups onto your Time Capsule and your data will be safe. When the Time Capsule gets full, Time Machine will delete old backups.

If you wanted to use the Time Capsule to store files from the computer, I recommend you to get another external drive and use it to store these files. It's much better and you won't waste a Time Capsule with an enormous hard disk

Have you read about how to use Time Machine? Nothing could be easier - you connect the Time Capsule and start Tiim Machine running - when you need to recover files you launch Time Machine and go back in time to the time you wnat them from, select them and restore them using Time Machine - trivial and fool proof as long as you do not get cute and change how it works - people who only backup once a day or even less using Time Machine will have problems - you need to run it with its default settings

and you need to figure out what you want - in one place you say you want a backup of your system including your photos which you must have - with no backup you will lose everything sooner or later - and Time Machine is a good choice for backups

Then later you say that you do not want a backup but an archive so you can delete itesm from your computer and retreive them later from your external hard drive - that is not a backup and if you do not have a backup of everything (your system and yoru archive) then you will lose your files and photos someday

So exactly what is it that you want?

LN

Again you are talking about two different things - Time Machine =makes backups not archives and if yhou delete things from your system sooner or later they will also disappear form the backup -- I think you are looking for an archive - but you still must have a backup in addition to your archive

So your best bet is to start time Machine and get yourbackup going and pruchase another external hard drive and

Moving the iPhoto library is safe and simple - quit iPhoto and drag the iPhoto library intact as a single entity to the external drive - depress the option key and launch iPhoto using the "select library" option to point to the new location on the external drive - fully test it and then trash the old library on the internal drive (test one more time prior to emptying the trash)

And be sure that the External drive is formatted Mac OS extended (journaled) (iPhoto does not work with drives with other formats) and that it is always available prior to launching iPhoto

And backup soon and often - having your iPhoto library on an external drive is not a backup and if you are using Time Machine you need to check and be sure that TM is backing up your external drive

This will free up space on your MB drive and you will have a baup to protect your data and photos

You can even have a second iPhoto library on yoru MB and use iPhoto Library Manager - http://www.fatcatsoftware.com/iplm/ - to move photos between the one on your EHD and yoru MB

LN

You'll need to external hard drives: the Time Capsulre to run Time Machine for backups and a second EHD to move at least 15 GB of files to so as to frree up your MacBook's boot drive.

The Time Capsure will backup both your Macbook's hard drive and the 2nd external HD.

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