Transferrin Photo's from Mac to Mac

Just bought brand new Macbook Pro. Currently have an Imac with a bunch of photo's on it in Iphoto. Also have a Network set-up in my house. Question is: What's the easiest way to transfer photo's from my Imac to my new Macbook Pro? Thx.

If your local network is hard wired just copy the entire iPhoto Library package from the Pictures folder on your iMac to the Pictures folder on the MBP. If it's a wireless network then I'd either connect the two via Target Disk Mode or, if you have one, use an external HD to move the library.

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All of the photos on my old PC are currently organized by year, then by month (a decade's worth of photos), and I'd love to take advantage of this switch to use keywords, faces, and other features of iPhoto for more specific tagging of my photos. But, due to my unfamiliarity with the way iPhoto handles its file structure, I'm a bit hesitant to dive in just yet. Does anyone have suggestions for how I should go about moving my photo library over to the Mac?
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All of the photos on my old PC are currently organized by year, then by month
You could use precisely the same structure to organise word processing documents, or powerpoints or whatever.
But that file is not your Photo. It is just a container - a box - for your Photograph. Think of it this way: In my iTunes Library I have a file called 'Let_it_Be_The_Beatles.mp3'. So what is that, exactly? It's not the song. The Beatles never wrote an mp3. They wrote a tune and lyrics. They recorded it and a copy of that recording is stored in the mp3 file. So the file is just a container for the recording. That container is designed in a specific way attuned to the characteristics and requirements of the data. Hence, mp3.
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(And you'll need a second one (at least) for back up.)
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For more on iPhoto and file management see this User Tip:
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-6361
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Who
What
Where basis (The When is in the photos's Exif metadata). I also rate the pics on a 1 - 5 star basis.
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File -> New Smart Album
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keyword is snow
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For help accessing your photos in iPhoto see this user tip:
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4491

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