How do I back up photo's to a exturnal drive

How do I back up photo's to from iphoto to an exturnal drive?

Just the Photos? File -> Export and export them to the Drive.
The Library?
Most Simple Back Up
Drag the iPhoto Library from your Pictures Folder to another Disk. This will make a copy on that disk.
Slightly more complex:
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

Similar Messages

  • Lost my iPod and don't know how to get back my photos

    I lost my iPod touch 5th generation and don't know how to get back my photos.  It is running iOS 8.1.
    Please Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Get them back from where?
    They will only be where you put them.
    If you used photo stream, then look for them there.
    If you imported them to your computer, then they will be there.
    If you did not put them anywhere but your iPhone, then they are gone.
    Sorry

  • How to get back deleted photos and contacts???

    First time to sync iphone 4 to computer and I have accidently deleted all my photos and contacts! All the photos from my computer are now in albums on my iphone. Any help in how to get back deleted photos and contacts would be greatly appreciated.
    Thanks,
    Sandra

    Hi Allan,
    Thanks for the reply. I restored from backup but now all photos from computer are gone, plus messages since yesterday etc.!

  • HT4859 how do i back up photos on iphoto?

    how do i back up photos on my imac from iphoto. I thought this was supposed to happen automatically to icloud but i've been advised that only applies for photos on my iphone. thx

    More advice, regarding photos on iOS devices ...
    You should be importing all pics taken with the iphone to your computer regularly as you would with any digital camera.  This is covered in the manual.
    iOS: Importing personal photos and videos from iOS devices to your computer

  • How do I find my photos on my external hard drive backed up using Time Machine?

    How do I find my photos on my external hard drive backed up using Time Machine?
    My hard drive died so this is my only storage. The hard drive was from an early 2008 Macbook Pro.
    I had recently installed Snow Leopard.

    If they’re in an iPhoto library, look in the Pictures folder of your home folder first. Otherwise, they’ll be in the location corresponding to the one you saved them to.
    (111765)

  • How do I back-up Itunes music onto an external drive?

    I wanted to know how I can back up my Itunes onto an external drive. I tried to back up but it will take about 9 discs to burn it onto. Can;t I just drop and drag all the songs onto an external drive?

    "Choose Consolidate Library from the Library section of the File menu in iTunes".
    I started this process and a screen popped up advising me this was irreversible and was I sure I wanted to do it. I clicked no until I could get further advice. If I do this, what is the outcome/consequences and why would they warn me?

  • I have so many photos I only have 1G of memory left.  How can I move the photos to my external hard drive that is connected to my iMac?

    I have so many photos on my Mac I only have 1G of memory left.  How can I move the photos to the external hard drive that is plugged into my iMac.

    1GB? It's a miracle your Mac is running at all!
    This is our resident iPhoto guru, Terence Devlin's, advice:
    You can move your iPhoto Library to an external disk:
    1. Quit iPhoto
    2. Copy the iPhoto Library Folder as an entity from your Pictures Folder to the External Disk.
    3. Hold down the option (or alt) key while launching iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library' and navigate to the new location. From that point on this will be the default location of your library.
    4. Test the library and when you're sure all is well, trash the one on your internal HD to free up space.

  • How can I Copy/backup photos in iphoto to external drives smaller than iPhoto library

    How can I Copy/backup photos in iphoto to external drives smaller than iPhoto library?  I have several 128 GB SSD's that I want to use to copy/backup all my iPhoto photographs for a permanent archive due to stability...but my iPhoto library is larger than the drives (about 234 GB) so it would require two of the SSD's...how best to get the original photos onto the SSD's?  I'm running Yosemite and iPhoto 9.6...thx.

    Terrence - Can you explain what you mean by data loss?  In the iPhoto Library?  Or on the copy? 
    Larry - In what way is each photo "degraded"?  Quality?  Isn't it simply making an an exact copy, in this case a jpeg, as would happen if I dragged and dropped a different file type?  Is there another type of degradation? 
    I am working on trying to create a correct backup as well (per your instructions) but I wanted to use this as a "put in a fireproof safe" archive on very small SSD's that would never have a mechanical hard drive problem (we've lost a couple over time so aren't real confident in their staying power)...I also recognize that I I won't have newer photos in this archive group but at least it would have 98% of our photos in another off-site location...at least that's the thought...
    Thx for your input and look forward to more in your reply...

  • How can I back up GoDaddy email to a Hard Drive?

    How can I back up GoDaddy email to a Hard Drive?

    I apologize!  I should have added that I've already seen that solution on the GoDaddy Site, and it is completely unhelpfull!!!
    I already know how to do that, but the emails i want to backup contain sensitive Client info, and I DO NOT want it stored on some other server.   The Key words in my question were TO A HARD DRIVE.  Thanks much anyway.  :-)
    Maybe my question would be more acuratly posed as " How can I ARCHIVE my Godaddy email's to a Hard Drive?

  • How To Sync Backed Up Photos To New iPhone 5?

    Hi,
    I was just wondering how to get my backed up photo album from my iPhone 4 to my new iPhone 5? I have backed up a lot of photos from my old iPhone and want to transfer them all to my new one, but when I sync, it only syncs my music and apps?
    It won't sync my contacts and notes etc as wellm but have retrieved this through iCloud which isn't a problem, but I cannot get my old messages and photos to go through? I know you can just manually sync photos from folders but I would rather have them in my camera roll as it makes it easier rather than seperate folders, and want to make sure my geo tags are there as I have been to a lot of places around the world!
    I have tried backing up my iPhone 4 over and over, and even got to a point where it said importing photos which was a good sign, but when I restore my iPhone 5 and try it it still won't pick up the photos or contacts etc? I have made sure I have selected my most recent backup so that shouldn't be the problem, but just wondered if I haven't put a setting on or something?
    My friend who also upgraded from a 4 to a 5 literally syced up and was away?
    Thanks for your help,
    Leslie

    compleidiot23 wrote:
    I will like to sync them to my iPod and not have them tored on my computer.
    What are you actually trying to do? If you wish to sync them to the iPod, that means have them on the iPod and in iTunes, but you specifically say you don't want them on the PC. However, like music on the iPod, to have it there it needs to be in the library (especially if you want to auto-sync), which is what you say you have to do.
    You mention the library and transferring the podcasts automatically, which suggests that you are trying to put them onto the iPod to listen to, but then you mention enabling disk use, which surely means storing them on the iPod as data files which you cannot listen to. So do you want to put them onto the iPod to listen to, or just to store them?
    How are you getting these podcasts anyway? The easiest way is to subscribe to them and let iTunes do all the work of finding and downloading them into the podcast part of iTunes and automatically syncing them into the Podcast section of the iPod. There are options in iTunes for keeping none, some, or all podcasts on the iPod, even once you have listened to them.
    Provide us with a bit more information and maybe we can sort out the best solution for you.
    Regards,

  • How do I back up photos and video in my iPad?

    Just bought my iPad Air.
    I installed iTune in my laptop (PC) and would like to back up all the photos and video in my iPad to my computer so that I can free up space.
    I cannot find way to do it within iTune application.
    Can you suggest how to backup my iPad photos and video?
    Thanks.

    flau3388 wrote:
    ...would like to back up all the photos and video in my iPad to my computer so that I can free up space.
    See here...
    Copying personal photos and videos from iOS devices to your computer

  • How to go back to photo from video on i phone

    I accidently hit something when I was taking a photo that activated the video. For the life of me, I can't figure out how to go back. I've shut it off, tapped everything I could but there is no obvious solution. I'm not sure which model of iphone I have.  Can someone please tell me how to do it?

    Just above the shutter button, slide the words "Photo, Video, Square ..." to the left, so that "Photo" is above the button.

  • Can anyone tell me how i can back my photos to my pc

    hi guys ive been trying to back my photos up to my pc ive done what apple says but the photos are not appering any suggestions?

    The latest iTunes version is 10.2.2
    Click your Apple menu (top left in your screen) then click Software Update.
    The message is telling you to update iTunes on your computer, not iTunes on your iPhone.
    Once you have iTunes 10.2.2 installed, restart your Mac then connect your iPhone.
    Your profile shows you are running v10.6.5. The Software Update should bring that up to v10.6.7 for you also.

  • Help...how do I download my photos from an external hard drive into iphoto

    Help, can someone tell me how to download my photos from an external hard drive that was a previous dell computer with windows.. we ditched the dell and got the imac... but I'm lost....please help.

    never mind i figured it out...thx

  • How do I back up my iPhone to a flash drive? I know it's possible, I just don't exactly know how to do it.

    My computer won't back up my iPhone. I'm guessing it's due to not having enough space. I'd like to instead, back up my iPhone to a flash drive. How do you transfer it to the flash drive? I'm aware that you can choose past back ups to transfer but my iPhone has never been backed up, so is there a way to, as my phone is syncing and attempting to back up, that I could have it automatically transfer all the information straight to the flash drive? Hope i'm not too confusing and you can understand what I'm trying to ask. THANKS.

    The iPhone backups are saved on the Users/user_name/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup folder. You can create a symlink that points that folder to your external flash drive, but those backups files are pretty big so iTunes may take longer to create those files in a flash drive.
    Symlinks are created using the command ln -s, and it may look something like:
    ln -s /Volumes/your_flash_drive_name_here  /Volumes/your_hdd_name_here/Users/your_user_name_here/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup
    You can also find applications that make symlinks creaton easier.

Maybe you are looking for