How To Safely Move Your iPhoto Library to Another Hard Drive

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This tutorial will show you the secret trick how to safely move your iPhoto libary to another hard drive. Do it wrong and you might accidentally ruin your entire collection.

Sometimes your scanned or digital camera photo collection is just so massive it takes over your entire hard drive. Maybe even to the point where it's now completely full!

If you don't want to replace your current hard drive with a larger one, moving your photo collection to an emptier hard drive is always another option.

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[jcalvarez]

Thank you -- you are a God send! How wonderful of you to have taken the time to demonstrate how easy this is.

[ScanYourEntireLife]

@jcalvarez ~ You're Welcome! I appreciate your kind words.

[gt4ucla]

Great information....I do have a question. I have APERTURE on my iMac. Do I do the same steps to move all my pictures/Library to the external drive?

[ScanYourEntireLife]

@gt4ucla ~ If you store your photos/videos IN the Aperture Library, then it's the exact same thing.

After you finish copying, you either hold down "Option" and then click on Aperture App in dock, OR you can click on File > Switch to Library to choose your new library file there.

IF your photos/videos are "referenced" (most people's aren't) then you can move your library file but your photos will remain where they currently are stored.

Hope this helps.

[normanlucasjr]

damn u sound like that guy in apple. thanks, really helpful!

[ScanYourEntireLife]

@normanlucasjr ~ Thank you! I really appreciate that — especially since I am a big fan of Apple and their promotional videos / tutorials. :)

[HNPHOTOGUY]

Thank you so much, I wish I did this along time ago, I'm now also using my external for my iTunes library

[laxwyo1]

I've already moved our library to an ex HD and have been using for a long time. My wife got a new 1TB harddrive and now I'm trying to move the libraries to that new one. Basically moving the library from one ex HD to another ex HD. I get a "The operation can’t be completed because an item with the name “Ambers iPhoto Library” already exists" after about 90MB have been transferred. There is zero iphoto libraries on the new HD. I don't get how I did it the first time, but now it won't work.

[wueve13]

12 hours / 250 gbs.......uhhhhhhh...

[Plateuser]

How did you place your External harddrive on your desktop like that?