Backing up photos without backing up the whole library

Is it possible to back up a few albums from the iphoto library to an external drive and maintain the original photo dates? I am trying to back up photos without copying the whole iphoto library each time but whenever I try to export a few photos or albums, the original date the photo was taken is lost and just today's date appears for the file.

File -> Export is the way to do what you want.
I am trying to back up photos without copying the whole iphoto library each time
Use an app that will do incremental back ups. This is a very good way to work. The first time you run the back up the app will make a complete copy of the Library. Thereafter it will update the back up with the changes you have made. That makes subsequent back ups much faster. Many of these apps also have scheduling capabilities: So set it up and it will do the back up automatically. Examples of such apps: Chronosync or DejaVu . But are many others. Search on MacUpdate
but whenever I try to export a few photos or albums, the original date the photo was taken is lost and just today's date appears for the file.
They're not.
There are two kinds of metadata involved when you consider jpeg or other image file.
One is the file data. This is what the Finder shows. This tells you nothing about the contents of the file, just the File itself.
The problem with File metadata is that it can easily change as the file is moved from place to place or exported, e-mailed, uploaded etc.
Photographs have also got both Exif and IPTC metadata. The date and time that your camera snapped the Photograph is recorded in the Exif metadata. Regardless if what the file date says, this is the actual time recorded by the camera.
Photo applications like iPhoto, Aperture, Lightroom, Picasa, Photoshop etc get their date and time from the Exif metadata.
When you export from iPhoto to the Finder new file is created containing your Photo (and its Exif). The File date is - quite accurately - reported as the date of Export. However, the Photo Date doesn't change.
The problem is that the Finder doesn't work with Exif.
So, your photo has the correct date, and so does the file, but they are different things. To sort on the Photo date you'll need to use a photo app.
Regards
TD

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Browse through iPhoto Library as above and drag chosen photo(s) into the project in the Inspector.
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It's says that file does not exist. How come? And why does it still show the image info.?
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It's says that file does not exist. How come?
What happened, before your iPhoto library got deleted? Which applications have you been running, or which new software have installed or upgraded? Have you moved the library to a different disk or tried to use it from different user account or access it over the network?

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