My newer iMac has plenty of room for my Photo library, which now resides on an EHD with backups, as well as Time Machine.(I wear belts and suspenders). I would like to copy the Photos library back to the Pictures folder of my MacIntosh HD. How would I do this and target the Pictures folder? I intend to keep the library on the EHD as a backup.
iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10), iLife '11, iTunes 12, i Work 09
Drag it there, and if needed, launch Photos with the Option key held down and choose it.
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Where is "there", and will it find it's way into the Pictures folder?
It will not "find its way" anyplace - it will be where you drag it to - the default (and best) location is in the pictures folder
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which now resides on an EHD with backups, as well as Time Machine.(I wear belts and suspenders).
You have a grave misunderstanding - you have no belt and no suspenders - when the EHD fails everything is gone and you have no backup of any sort - the iPhoto library can not be on the same volume as its backup
LN
Sorry about the mis-communication. I have the Photos library on my Time Machine and two separate EHDs. Using SuperDuper I keep the library backed up. If I copy the library to the Pictures folder I will have four copies, more than enough. I don't want to lose a lifetime of old and new photos when EHDs are now so reasonable.
Moving Photos library "back to" MacIntosh HD from an EHD
