Move photos from old mac to new mac

I have a 2007 macbook on 10.6.8. I have lots of photos that I want to move onto a new Macbook Pro on Yosemite. I have an ethernet cable. I have connected the 2 laptops. I connected to the old laptop on the new one and dragged the iphoto library file onto iPhoto on the new laptop. It asked if I wanted to merge the libraries which I agreed to and now it doesn't seem to be doing anything. When I click iPhoto on the new laptop it says it is upgrading the library. I was going to leave it sitting to do this but it just exits iPhoto after a few minutes. How do I fix this and get the photos on the new laptop?! Thanks.

connected to the old laptop on the new one and dragged the iphoto library file onto iPhoto on the new laptop.
Don't do that. You will end up with a colossal mess.
To move an iPhoto Library to a new machine:
Link the two Macs together: there are several ways to do this: Wireless Network,Firewire Target Disk Mode, Ethernet, or even just copy the Library to an external HD and then on to the new machine...
But however you do choose to link the two machines...
Simply copy the iPhoto Library from the Pictures Folder on the old Machine to the Pictures Folder on the new Machine.
Then launch iPhoto. That's it.
This moves photos, events, albums, books, keywords, slideshows and everything else.

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