[X4U] Back up photos in iPhoto

[Zane H. Healy]

This would be my recommendation as well.  I've done this for my Mom 
and she absolutely loves it as it is totally automatic.

Having said that, I don't use this myself, but I've written a 
solution that mostly meets my needs.  One day I hope to switch to 
Time Machine.

Zane




At 3:02 PM -0700 10/16/11, Jim Warthman wrote:
>Why not get an external drive that's ~2X the capacity of the 
>internal drive, and set up Time Machine to keep the internal drive 
>backed up? That would take care of the photos and probably a whole 
>lot more!
>
>Enjoy,
>
>Jim
>
>
>On Oct 16, 2011, at 12:34 PM, Michael Winter wrote:
>
>>  I guess its been too long since I backed up my parent's photos. I 
>>used to just go into the iPhoto folder, select all the folders 
>>since the last time I backed them up and burn those folders to a CD 
>>or DVD.
>>
>>  But now the iPhoto library is a single file/bundle, so I can't do 
>>that. iPhoto gives me the option of burning them to a CD/DVD that 
>>only iPhoto can read, or exporting and backing up from there. The 
>>only problem is, if I export several hundred photos, they're all 
>>dumped into the same folder. I can't see any way to have it sort 
>>them the way they used to be. All sense of organization is gone.
>>
>>  Does anyone know a better way to back up the photos or 
>>automatically organize the export?
>>
>>  Thanks.
>>
>>  -Mike
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