Exporting to External Drive
Good morning,
I want to export my photos to external drive for safe keeping. How would I do that? Would I just choose export and then select the external drive? Also, should I choose jpeg as file type and maximum quality?
This is what I assume I should do, but want to be sure the photos are safe before deleting them from iphoto! Thanks a lot!
Larissa
Do you want to back up +just the Photos+ or the iPhoto Library?
To back up +just the Photos+
File -> Export then you need to make some choices:
Kind: Original will get all your photos as imported from your camera
Kind: Current will get the Edited versions of pics you have edited plus the originals of those not edited.
Kind: Jpeg will get the same as Kind: Current but will also allow you to write metadata you have added in iPhoto (keywords, titles, descriptions etc) to the files.
Regards
TD
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