Exporting / Backing-Up

My hard drive is maxed out. How do I export a portion (not entire library) of the iphoto library, so that in the future I can reimport it, and on occasion, access the pictures for photo books and e-mail? I will be backing up onto an external hard drive.
Thanks you!!!!!

You have the option of using your external to store and run the iPhoto library. If you want to keep iPhoto on your Mac HD, then you will need to trim it down...
You need to do all your downsizing through iPhoto itself. If it were me, I would probably export all the photos I wanted to backup onto the External HD through the iPhoto export option, when saved, I would delete them out of iPhoto. This safest way...
I don't believe you can back up certain folders and then delete the folders through finder. You will basically have a mess on your hands.
You can always move your iPhoto Library to your external HD and have iPhoto start using the external HD... Copy iPhoto library to external HD, after successfully copying library to external, hold down the OPTION key and open iPhoto, select choose library, now navigate to iPhoto library on your external... if all looks well, you can first move the iPhoto library on you Mac HD to the desktop, if iPhoto still works with your external, you can go ahead and trash the library iPhoto on your desktop...
Rick
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