All my images in finder

I have a MacBook from 2008.  I originally had snow leopard and updated to mavericks.  In snow leopard when I wanted to save my pictures to an external hard drive I would go to all images on the side bar and could easily transfer the pictures.  Now that I have updated to Mavericks I can't find this option.  I tried to make a smart folder but when I search for images I know it did not show all the images that are in iPhoto library.  Does anybody know how to solve this

hi tim1427,
Im not quite sure what you want to do. Move Photos you have in your iPhoto library on an external hard drive?
Anyway the following points may help your understanding:
In your home folder->pictures is a file that is called iPhoto Library. All Photos you import in iPhoto are stored in there. The only proper way to acces these pictures and move them to an external hard drive or the finder is by exporting them directly from within iPhoto. (Drag and Drop from the iPhoto to a Finder Window would also work)
Any other photos you can access in the Finder as .jpg or any other format are not in iPhoto.  If you see them also in iPhoto you have them double. (once in the file iPhoto Library and once in the Finder.) You may want to delete the ones in the finder then.
I hope based on this you can formulate your question new or describe what workflow you have in mind.
Just in case you are doing this for backup reasons, you could also just import all photos to iPhoto and just copy the iPhoto Library to your external hard drive. BUT, and this is important, as soon as iPhoto is not anymore on your Mac accessing these photos gets unpleasant. Therefore i would go for the export version. Then you can share and import your photos into other applications with ease. All from your backup drive.
jl

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