Can i Just drag my iPhoto Library to an external Disk ?

[fab5freddy]

my current iPhoto Library is almost 200GB's and i'd like to
start fresh and just back it up and start with an empty Library.

Can i just drag my iPhoto Library to my external disk and back it
up that way ?

thanks!!

 

[maflynn]

Yep, I move my Aperture Libraries around and when its time to fire one of them up, I just double click on it

 

[mikeo007]

Yup. It's actually just a giant archive, with all your original pictures, meta data, edits and thumbnails included.

 

[T'hain Esh Kelch]

Hold down Alt when starting iPhoto, to select the location of your external library, or create a new.

 

[priitv8]

In my experience, the external disk needs to be formatted to OS X native HFS+. I tried with an exFAT disk, and although Finder moved over all the files, it complained at the end that it could not set metadata or ACL-s or something like that.
So yes - as long as your disk is in HFS+ format, Finder will move the library over very happily. If not, then you may have a problem.

 

[fab5freddy]

thanks for the help!