Moving all my photos from my Mac to SmugMug photo storage service.
I have joined the photo storage service SmugMug. My goal is to move every last photo I have on my Mac to SmugMug and then delete my photos from my Mac. Following SmugMug's path for loading photos, I'm taken to a page that shows the first line item hi-lited in blue which says "iPhoto". If I were to scroll down, the next line item says "Events" and the one below it says "Photos".
See example:
Question #1: Which line item do I select, "iPhoto", "Events" or "Photos"?
Question #2: How do I delete all photos permanently from my computer once I've successfully moved them to SmugMug?
Please be specific in your answers. I am old and have little computer experience.
Thank you all for your help.
I'd like to offer the suggestion that you do not erase all your photos from your computer, or..... at least get an external hard drive and park a copy of them there. I would not trust having one backup only; there are things that can go wrong and, personally, I would not trust any online server with my precious and only copy of my photos.
I can't help with the other question since I don't use iPhoto.
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