I cannot get my firewire connection between 2 MacBooks to work.

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I cannot get my firewire connection between 2 MacBooks to work.

I am trying to move my iPhoto photo library from a MacBook Pro running on OS 10.5.8 to a MacBook Pro running on OS 10.6.8. The two MacBooks are connected via a FireWire 800 port connector, but nothing is happening. When I look at Network in Preferences, the first MacBook shows FireWire with a green light, and the second one shows a yellow light. I have no idea what else to do (and I am not a technical person, so I'm not sure where else to look). Any help would be greatly appreciated.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Sep 5, 2013 1:44 AM

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mende1

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Sep 5, 2013 1:46 AM in response to macrmj

Welcome to Apple Support Communities

Did you put any of your Macs in Target Disk mode? If not, do it. Hold the T key while one of your Macs are starting, so this MacBook's hard drive will be detected as an external disk on the other Mac.

Finally, copy the iPhoto library to the other MacBook Pro's hard drive. You will see it in the Finder sidebar, under "Devices". Copy it to your user's folder

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Sep 5, 2013 2:54 AM in response to mende1

That worked -- gracias.

One problem, though. I had hoped to move the photos in their existing events (7,000 photos organized in 94 events), but the photos simply moved over en masse in the Users file. Do you know a way I can move them so that they will show up in iPhoto organized in the same events?

Thanks again.

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mende1

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Sep 5, 2013 2:56 AM in response to macrmj

Dd you transfer the iPhoto library or just individual photos? It's strange that events didn't get transferred.

After transferring the iPhoto library, open iPhoto by holding the Option (Alt) key and point to the transferred iPhoto library

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macrmj Author

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Sep 5, 2013 3:19 AM in response to mende1

I opened the Events page in iPhoto and selected all events. Then I tried to paste the events to the new MacBook hard drive, but it wouldn't do that; so I used Export to move them. I expected it to transfer them by event, but that didn't happen. Maybe there is another way to do it.

I suppose I could transfer one event at a time, but that seems pretty inefficient to me.

Thanks again.

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mende1

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Sep 5, 2013 3:20 AM in response to macrmj

You didn't transfer your pictures correctly. Instead of transferring your pictures without the iPhoto library, you have to transfer the whole iPhoto library, which is in Pictures folder. Go to this folder and copy the iPhoto library to your other Mac's hard drive. That's the way of transferring your iPhoto library keeping your events

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macrmj Author

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Sep 5, 2013 6:18 AM in response to mende1

It worked! Thank you so much for helping me. You were great.

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mende1

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Sep 5, 2013 6:19 AM in response to macrmj

You are welcome

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