Will my iPhoto pics be deleted if I disable "photos" on iCloud?

will my iPhoto pics be deleted if I disable "photos" on iCloud?
I want to free up my iPhone storage. I manually drop all of my iPhone pics onto my computer into iPhoto. I do not want to use icloud for this. if I disable "photos" on iCloud from my iPhone, will my iPhoto pics be deleted on my PC?

No, your iPhoto pics won't be deleted.

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from some reason (i'm not sure why..) my whole iphoto library got deleted. I restored the whole library from my backup. Now all the photos are blank but steel have the photo info. (date, res., size etc.) Do you know what's the prob.? why can't i see my pics.

It's says that file does not exist. How come? And why does it still show the image info.?
Where can i find those files (i have a daily backup)
The original image files are missing form your iPhoto library or iPhoto cannot find them, because the link to the originals has been broken. The image info is stored in the internal libraries, independent of the original files. That is, why you are still seeing them.
I restored the whole library from my backup.
Try restoring from an older backup, from before you first noticed the problem.
How large is the library, that you restored? Is the file size large enough to hold all your photos, or has the size been reduced? If the library is still large, the photos may still be inside, even if iPhoto cannot find them.
It's says that file does not exist. How come?
What happened, before your iPhoto library got deleted? Which applications have you been running, or which new software have installed or upgraded? Have you moved the library to a different disk or tried to use it from different user account or access it over the network?

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Hello, I just upgraded my computer to Maverick and now iPhoto isnt working and says I need to upload.
Probably the error message was to "upgrade" and not upload, right? Older versions of iPhoto are not compatible with Mavericks, and because your iPhoto library has been created by an earlier version of iPhoto, it needs to be upgraded to a new format, so iPhoto '11 can open it.
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Get an external hard disk and copy it over there.
Make it easy for yourself and use Time Machine.
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June
Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
Let's get this out of the way:
Don't change anything in the iPhoto Library Folder via the Finder or any other application. iPhoto depends on the structure as well as the contents of this folder. Moving things, renaming things or otherwise making changes will prevent iPhoto from working and could even cause you to damage or lose your photos.
The way to delete pics from iPhoto is to do it in the iPhoto Window. Drag the pics from the Library to the iPhoto trash. iPhoto Menu -> Empty the trash.
Deleting a pic here or there is not going to make a difference to your HD space? How big are these pics? 2 - 5 mb if they're from a point and shoot camera, 10 - 15 from a dslr? Why not move your library to the external disk:
1. Quit iPhoto
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3. Hold down the option (or alt) key while launching iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library' and navigate to the new location. From that point on this will be the default location of your library.
4. Test the library and when you're sure all is well, trash the one on your internal HD to free up space.
As you've been mucking about in the iPhoto Library Folder then you'll need to start over and create and populate a new library:
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You can set Photoshop (or any image editor) as an external editor in iPhoto. (Preferences -> General -> Edit Photo: Choose from the Drop Down Menu.) This way, when you double click a pic to edit in iPhoto it will open automatically in Photoshop or your Image Editor, and when you save it it's sent back to iPhoto automatically. This is the only way that edits made in another application will be displayed in iPhoto.
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How do I retrieve deleted pics from iphone 4 not backed up on icloud or itunes?

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You must understand this difference.
You can keep all kinds of photos in the Pictures Folder. You can have all kinds of folders in that Pictures Folder.
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I uploaded all my iphotos onto an external hard drive recently, before I got a cable replaced in my Mac Mavericks(which would have deleted all my files/photos etc.) , but when I went to put all my photos back on to my laptop -it wouldn't let me.
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But this will not have happened unless you also upgraded something else - like the OS for instance. Can you give us the exact error message you get?

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