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Iphoto: Lost 'events' folders-2 weeks work lost?

A family friend asked for photos in folders. I bought UBS Pen drive, then selected 'events' on my iMac and dragged them to a 128 GB USB pen drive.

30,000 photos are now on pen drive but 'events' have disappeared from my Mac

A couple of questions:

1) Is there a way to recover my events on I mac?

2) Is there a way to move the photos in folders onto pen drive?

Having spent two weeks sorting photos (Including scanned photos) into event folders any suggestions on how to recover this work would be appreciated.

iMac (21.5-inch Late 2009), OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)

Posted on Aug 23, 2014 12:57 AM

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Yer_Man

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Sep 3, 2014 10:53 PM in response to SKWLEE

You create a folder on the desktop. Name to for the Event. (You can actually do this in the Export dialogue.)

Export the photos to the folder.

Result: A folder named for the Event, containing the photos.

SKWLEE

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Sep 4, 2014 3:37 PM in response to Yer_Man

Hello Terence - thanks for your reply, but maybe I wasn't clear. your comment is fine if all i want to do is create a "folder" and add some photos into it and then call it an Event.

but my issue is that I have my iPhoto library which is organised into various "events" by date / birthday/seasonal etc - and I have over 850 of them.

what is the best way to set up a new apple iMac/mac mini and have iPhotos look and feel the same? i.e. with all my photos within the iPhoto library on the new machine - sorted into the same titled events?

regards

Yer_Man

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Sep 4, 2014 10:51 PM in response to SKWLEE

So what you want to do is not move photos or Events but actually move the Library to a new machine?

To move an iPhoto Library to a new machine:

Link the two Macs together: there are several ways to do this: Wireless Network,Firewire Target Disk Mode, Ethernet, or even just copy the Library to an external HD and then on to the new machine...

But however you do choose to link the two machines...

Simply copy the iPhoto Library from the Pictures Folder on the old Machine to the Pictures Folder on the new Machine.

Then launch iPhoto. That's it.

This moves photos, events, albums, books, keywords, slideshows and everything else.

Iphoto: Lost 'events' folders-2 weeks work lost?