Exporting events in iphoto

Hi - I am running the 2011 version of Iphoto (version 9.2.3) off Snow Leopard and have had iphoto crash twice in the last year. The last time, I had to bring my data in to get recovered. Now, I'm trying to get save all my photo by event folders onto an EHD and use this method of photo organization until I upgrade my computer and software in the near future - likely LIghtroom or Aperture. I only use it to store and organize pics of my kids - I'm not great at computers so can someone walk me through how to export all my pics by event onto the EHD? I have about 150 events. I've tried searching and tried a few scripts others have provided but nothing seems to work...thanks in advance!!!

The option to export to a sub-folder structure comes with versions later than 9.2.3 (9.3 iirc). So you'll need to do it manually or Apps like iPhoto2Disk or PhotoShare will help you export to a Folder tree matching your Events.
You need to keep your back up up-to-date.
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.
Example of such apps: Chronosync - but there are many others. Search on MacUpdate or the App Store

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