Moving iPhoto 04 library to iPhoto 09

My girlfriend has spent a lot of time writing descriptions in the comments field in her iPhoto 04 library on her G5 iMac. In advance of her buying a new mac we exported a few images to my iPhoto 09 to see how they looked: one big problem, no comments come into the description field. Will this be an issue when she transfers the whole iPhoto 04 library to a new computer and version of IPhoto?

No, because you won't be exporting them. Iphoto 4 had no ability to export metadata added in the application. That arrived with v6.
To update a library:
Copy it from the Pictures Folder on the old Machine to the same location on the New machine.
Then Launch iPhoto.
That's it.
Of course, you back up first.
Regards
TD

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