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Q: How do I keep photos in events when moving them to a Seagate EHD?

I need to move some photos off my computer and onto an EHD (not my backup drive) to make room on my computer. I tried dragging and dropping events but when I went and looked on the EHD they're all jumbled and I'll never be able to find anything when I go back to them.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)

Posted on May 10, 2016 6:11 PM

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Q: How do I keep photos in events when moving them to a Seagate EHD?

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  • by LarryHN,

    LarryHN LarryHN May 10, 2016 9:05 PM in response to deedeefromtx
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    May 10, 2016 9:05 PM in response to deedeefromtx

    To keep your iPhoto organization intact you need to move your iPhoto library not just some photos - you can copy the iPhoto library to any drive formatted Mac OS extended (journaled) and keep everything with no change

     

    To put just photos on and EHD you need to select the events  and export (file menu ==> export) using the subfolder format command  --  see Exporting From iPhoto  for details

     

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