Michael Collins asks:
I am trying to move my photos from my 4 year old Macbook to my Mac, both of which have iPhoto 11. I was going to do it via firewire, but my laptop doesn’t have a connection. Is there a way I can use an adapter and go through a usb port? If not, what is the easiest way to complete the transfer? I am not a very technology-savvy guy…
Thanks!
8 Answers -
ha14
October 24, 2012how about to transfer to external hard drive and then to copy to new mac.
if you can buy a firewire card?
How to use and troubleshoot FireWire target disk mode
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1661
Ethernet Cable
How to Transfer From a PowerBook G4 to a MacBook Pro 13
http://www.ehow.com/how_8370279_transfer-g4-macbook-pro-13.html#ixzz2ACUV5bWD
via dropbox
https://www.dropbox.com/
Douglas Mutay
October 24, 2012To move an iPhoto Library to a new machine you will have to link the two Macs together either by a Wireless Network, Firewire Target Disk Mode, Ethernet, or even just copy the iPhoto Library from the Pictures Folder to an external HD and then on to your new Mac… Then launch iPhoto. That’s it.
You will see all your photos, events, albums, books, keywords, slideshows and everything else in your new Mac. But if you already have an iPhoto Library in your new Mac and want to merge it with your old library, the only way to do it is with the paid version of iPhoto Library Manager costing $20.
You can download it at this link: http://www.fatcatsoftware.com/iplm/. Good luck
Dino Pearsons
October 24, 2012The iPhoto library is actually a folder which your Mac shows as a file.
It’s located in the /Users/username/Pictures folder and it’s called iPhoto Library.
You can just copy the whole folder onto a hard drive or move it via Ethernet/Wi-Fi and put it in the same folder on your new Mac and it will be there.
Ray Randall
October 24, 2012Use the Migration Wizard
Freud Iomc
October 24, 2012http://www.macworld.com/article/1162154/move_data_from_an_old_mac_to_a_new_mac.html
susendeep dutta
October 25, 2012Sync your iPhoto libraries -
http://www.macworld.com/article/1133797/synciphoto.html
Also,if you like to have a online backup too,then -
http://www.maclife.com/article/howtos/how_sync_your_iphoto_library_dropbox_and_google_drive
Sashritha Peiris
December 12, 2012Copy the file named iPhoto library in the photos folder on one mac and and paste it on the other one in the same location. (use a usb stick)
Vivek Kumar Yadav
December 16, 2012To move an iPhoto Library to a new machine you will have to link the two Macs together either by a Wireless Network, Firewire Target Disk Mode, Ethernet, or even just copy the iPhoto Library from the Pictures Folder to an external HD and then on to your new Mac… Then launch iPhoto. That’s it.
but if u have a fast enough internet connection then ill suggest i cloud…