Export Photos Library Mac To External Hard Drive

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By default, iPhoto is a photo management program which comes standard on every Mac computer. But if you want change your Mac computer to Windows PC, then you need to transfer you all data from Mac to Windows PC. The most important thing is your photos and videos. You can transfer all your photos from iPhoto to Windows with simple steps. To do so, open 'iPhoto' on your Mac and select all your photos to transfer. Click 'File' menu and select 'Export' option. A 'File Export' window opens up. Select 'Original' option in 'Kind' and 'Event Name' option in the 'Subfolder Format' and then click 'Export' button. This will give you the photos in folder which represents the 'Events' in your iPhoto Library. Now you must export the entire event to Windows PC. Go to 'Events' view and select the event which you want to export. You may have to export all photos by year to make file management easier on the Windows PC. Make sure that you have enough storage space on your hard drive before doing this procedure. If you don't have enough storage space, then hust export a few albums from iPhoto and then delete them. If you choose 'Original' in 'File Type', iPhoto will not embed the keywords and GPS data in your exported photos.
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Export photo library mac to external hard drive

Export Photo Library Mac To External Hard Drive

How to move an Apple Photos for OS X library to an external drive A reader would like to host his Photos Library on a drive other than the startup volume. Knowing how to move photos library to external hard drive is important for your editing flow. It saves valuable desktop space and scratch disk memory on your computer. On top of this, using an external hard drive provides other benefits. Oct 25, 2019  Launch a Finder window on your Mac. Click on the Mac hard drive (Macintosh HD) in the sidebar. Double-click on the Users folder. Double-click on your username. Double-click on your Pictures folder. Click on the Photos Library file and then drag it to your external hard drive in the sidebar.