Keeping my photos on my Mac and Macbook pro

I have a mac and a new Macbook pro. I want to keep my iPhoto pictures on my Mac and am wondering how to get them over to my Macbook pro..???

lucille j wrote:
I have a mac and a new Macbook pro. I want to keep my iPhoto pictures on my Mac and am wondering how to get them over to my Macbook pro..???
Do not use Migration assistant to move the iphoto library - it has a poor record in doing this and often creates problems
Connect the two Macs together (network, firewire target mode, etc) or use an external hard drive formatted Mac OS extended (journaled) and drag the iPhoto library intact as a single entity from the old Mac to the pictures folder of the new Mac - launch iPhoto on the new mac and it will open the library and convert it as needed and you will be ready move forward.
This gives you the exact same photos and organization on both systems - going forward the two systems are totally separate - there is no way to automatically keep them the same - you can use iPhoto Library Manager - http://www.fatcatsoftware.com/iplm/ - to move photos between the two systems
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