I suspect the exported versions of the images are much smaller than the
original if it dropped from 115GB to 10. iPhoto adds some metadata stuff
but that's just indexes and things so the bulk of the files should be
the photos themselves. Maybe you have a lot of edits? In any case, I'd
still go with the 115GB copy to be sure you have everything.
As far as time to copy, how are you moving them over? On Gb Ethernet I
hit speeds of 70-80MB/s, depending on how fast the two computers are.
Wireless I get 3-10MB/s and Firewire 400 I get about 35MB/s. I haven't
had a chance to speed test Firewire 800 yet.
CB
On 5/4/12 9:55 PM, Kliphton wrote:
It's strange, because when I do an export, the 21833 photo's are only 10 GB,
but if I go into pictures, and attempt to copy the folder called iPhoto
library, it's 115 gb. Can't figure out what the major difference is here.
Another thing is, when I copy the iPhoto library istead of exporting, it takes
almost 5 hours for it to copy only 500 MB, and says the entire thing will take
56 days to complete. Anyone know why?
On May 4, 2012, at 2:11 PM, Chris Blouch wrote:
True, there might be some other folders in there, but they will be a very small
amount of stuff compared to iPhoto.
So if you just want a backup and to do it manually when needed then you can
just copy the iPhoto folder to your backup location and you're done. No need to
export stuff or do other fiddling. Next thing to figure out is how you're going
to move them and that depends on how they can be connected. If the destination
machine is a laptop you can put it in target mode and just use it like a big
expensive external hard drive and copy the iPhoto library to it. If it's on a
network you can share the backup machine's hard drive, mount it on the machine
with photos and then copy the iPhoto library to it. If that's wireless then it
could take a while depending on how much stuff there is. You might think about
going wired temporarily just during the copy to speed things up. Then you're
only limited by whatever network hub you use. If the machines are close
together you could even connect them directly to each via Cat5 and share over
that at Gigabit speed, which is basically faster than most hard drives can go.
CB
On 5/4/12 12:03 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote:
No need to really copy the entire Pictures folder. The iPhoto Library is
packaged up nicely within the Pictures folder and it's all you really need to
copy if what what you're wishing to do is make a copy of your same Library on
another machine.
The Export option that you chose will have most likely changed the quality of
the pictures unless you set it to Original in that pop-up.
As Chris mentioned, the best thing for you to do will depend on what your
purpose is. If it's simply to back things up, then I'd just use Time Machine
and back up your whole computer instead of just the pictures.
Later...
On 2012-05-04, at 7:48 AM, Chris Blouch wrote:
So do you just want to clone the whole library to another machine or are you
planning on adding these to an existing library? If it's the former then you
can just grab the whole Pictures folder and copy that to the new machine.
CB
On 5/4/12 7:51 AM, Kliphton wrote:
Okay, so I see an export feaature in iPhoto, and I did it even though it
says the size was only 10 gb for 22000 photos. Also had some presets for
quality and format that I just left alone. My question is, is that the way
to do it,or will I lose some quality or features if I go to import in to
another iPhoto library, should I back the whole thing up from within
pictures, or was this the right way?
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