Please can you help. I with to transfer my photos to an external HD and then delete them from iPhoto on my MacBook to free up space. I want to be able to restore some photos to iPhoto if I need them in future. Please can anyone help? Thank you
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.5)
Select the photos you want to move. (In the sidebar click on the Photos item which is second in the list. Then go up to the Edit menu and choose Select All.) Now go to the File menu and select Export...
The dialog box that appears lets you make some choices. You’ll want to select JPEG quality Maximum, I’m sure. Size will be Full Size and probably keep Filename as the filename unless you’ve given every photo a title. If you’ve created Events you can have the download organized by events. That’s the Subfolder Format option (which defaults to none). Now click on Export and point the file selector to where you want the photos to go.
That’s it.
Select the photos you want to move. (In the sidebar click on the Photos item which is second in the list. Then go up to the Edit menu and choose Select All.) Now go to the File menu and select Export...
The dialog box that appears lets you make some choices. You’ll want to select JPEG quality Maximum, I’m sure. Size will be Full Size and probably keep Filename as the filename unless you’ve given every photo a title. If you’ve created Events you can have the download organized by events. That’s the Subfolder Format option (which defaults to none). Now click on Export and point the file selector to where you want the photos to go.
That’s it.
Thanks so much, if i delete the pics from iPhoto would i then be able to re-import them from the external HD if i wanted to?
yes. To add pictures back just drag them onto the iPhoto icon in the dock.
i want to transfer my photos to an external HD and then delete from iphoto
