Hi, The most efficient method would be to copy the Photos Library from within the Pictures folder of your Home directory. This method will retain your album structure and such. Go to the Finder, press cmd-shift-h to open your Home directory, navigate to the Pictures folder and open it. Locate the Photos Library item and cmd-c to copy it. Navigate to your external drive and paste it on to the drive. After it's complete, you can eject it, connect the drive to the other Mac and copy/paste it into the Pictures folder of the Home directory of the new Mac. To make it the default photos library, just cmd-o on that item when in the Pictures folder. Photos will open with that library and all should be good.
If you had Photos checked in your iCloud services, then all your photos would already be in the Cloud and would thus be accessible to all your devices. This would likely require a upgraded iCloud account though as it often requires more than the free 5 GB iCloud plan. You could also use the Export feature of Photos, which would give you the ability to export your entire library to an external source, but I'd suggest the first method as it is much easier to manage. Later... Tim Kilburn Apple Teacher (with Swift Playgrounds Recognition) Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Jan 1, 2019, at 07:15, Jessica Moss <[email protected]> wrote: I’m in the midst of converting my old MacBook Pro into the family computer sense I’ve now gotten a new one, and need to figure out how to transfer my photos from it to my external drive. Can someone please explain to me how to do this? I haven’t seen an option anywhere within the menus to do this, but maybe I’ve been looking in the wrong place. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: [email protected] and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: [email protected] and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
