Moving photos, some modified and some original to external hard drive
I have about 3000 photos that I would like to move either to my external hard drive or DVD to free up some space. My dilemma is that I would like only to have one of each picture. What I mean by this is that if I have modified a photo it seems that both the modified and the original are copied. I don't need duplicates. But if I haven't modified the picture I would need the orignal to copy. Thoughts? Thanks.
Hi, bows4474. If you select pictures in your library and Export them to a folder on your desktop or elsewhere on your hard drive — being sure to select Original Size in the Export dialog box — then that folder will contain the modified versions of pictures you've modified and the original versions of pictures you haven't modified. It won't contain the originals of pictures you've modified. It also won't be an iPhoto Library database folder, so it won't contain any thumbnails, albums, film rolls, books, slideshows, etc. that were created in iPhoto — it will simply be a folder full of image files. You can then burn it to CD or DVD, and you won't need iPhoto to access and open the files on any Mac or PC. But they won't be organized as you organized them in iPhoto, and if any of them have the same names, you won't be able to put same-named images in the same folder without one of them replacing the other(s).
To get all the pictures back into iPhoto at any later time, you'd probably want to create a brand new iPhoto Library and import them into it. Importing them back into the same library you exported them from would duplicate every one there, creating real havoc.
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