Thunderbolt cable iphoto transfer

Question

I have a 27" imac with all my stuff runnung 10.9.1.  Just got a new MBP running 10.9.1.
It been a while and I'm having trouble transfering an entire iphoto library. my goal is to transfer from imac to mbp.
So far I have connected the imac to mbp using a thunderbolt cable and running the imac in T mode.
What is the easyist way to do this.  The library contains ~ 68 GB data.
When I try to drop the library into the mbp iphoto it only lets me re-launch which does not transfer.
When I drop the library on to the mbp desk top it says it will take hours.....
This is what my imac shows..... The library I want to transfer is call iphoto Library ROD.

Answer 1

Network 23 wrote:
scratched wrote:
I don't want anything on my MBP except 4500 photos of the 15000 on my imac 1 library.
Sorry, I misread that the first time you said it because in the earlier post it said "4500 out of the 1500" and the math didn't work so I didn't get it. I see what you mean now.
In that case none of our suggestions is the right one, not even Migration Assistant. Instead do this in iPhoto: If you have already identified the 4500 keepers, just select them all and do an Export with the format set to Original. Exporting will copy them all to some folder where you can easily move them over to the new Mac. Or you could share the folder where you want them to go in the new Mac, mount it using Thunderbolt networking from the old Mac and export to that.
If you didn't want all 4500 in one folder but to preserve existing organization, the Export feature in iPhoto has a "Subfolder Format" option that lets you organize the export by "Event Name." If you need more than that maybe Aperture could help there after all. Or maybe it would be faster to transfer everything to the new Mac and then delete the ones you don't want to keep.
Sorry for the numerical error.
The folders/albums/folders/albums must follow the pictures or this is of no value.
I tryed your last suggestion and transfered the whole library over and deleted all the unwanted folders but the problem here is it still leaves all the photos in the "new" library.
The goal here may be a silly one but this is for a huge car modification project and I would like to be able to temporarily take off my 27" imac and transfer to my MBP when I travel.  I can "work" on the refining the car library then when I return home transfer the new work back to the imac and delete the older version. I was hoping that the speed of the hunderbolt cable would make this "doable".