So I can confirm that everything's okay and I can go through the photos, and once I know this one is fine, I can delete the original, just put it in the trash for now. I'm going to choose that one, and now it's going to open up iPhoto and it's going to have the same pictures I saw before. I've got three here: the one that you would normally open, that's the one we took the copy from, and I can look here and see there's another one that is on the external drive, which is the one that I just used, and it's called iPhoto Library. Here's where I can select a different iPhoto library. What will happen is instead of it just opening as normal, I'm going to get presented with this dialogue box here. Now I'm going to launch iPhoto, but I'm going to hold down the Option key on my keyboard when I do it. I can go back to this one later and delete it once I confirm this one is working fine. Now that that's done, I've got two copies of that library, one in the original location and one in the old one. For instance, if I wanted to move it to my external drive - and here I've got one with no files in it at the moment - I can simply copy the entire thing there, and it will copy all the photos, everything associated with that iPhoto library. You can put it in another folder, and you can move it to another drive. It's a single file, it's actually a package, and you can look in it if you want but I'm not going to go into that right now. There you can see I've got something called iPhoto Library, and this is the default location for your iPhoto library. Here I am in my Home folder, and under my Home folder I have Pictures. You could put that anywhere you want, but it all stays together, so you don't have any choices about putting some things in one place and some things in another. Moving your iPhoto library is not as complex as moving an iTunes library, because you don't have any choices. On today's episode, let me show you how to move your iPhoto library to another drive, and why you may not want to. Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with MacMost Now. Check out MacMost Now 643: Moving Your iPhoto Library at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.
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