OK folks - need your help with something that I thought (naively) would be fairly straightforward. Have a newer iMac that I want to transfer my iphoto and aperture libraries to so that I can combine them into one "master" library. So here's what I've got:
New iMac
Old iMac with attached firewire drive with iphoto and aperture libs
Current macbook pro with iphoto and aperture libraries backed up onto portable USB drive.
First things first, I thought. Attach the portable drives and copy all the libs from my old imac and macbook pro backup to the new Imac's attached 4TB USB3 drive. Drag and drop, I say. Error messages, says the iMac. So I resort to using terminal cp -R and it appears to go well (at least no error messages).
Now - ASSUMING (yeah, I know) that the copies went properly, I want to combine the libraries into a new "master" library on the 4TB drive attached to the new iMac. I was hoping there would be some way to simply merge the libraries and weed out the duplicates (or, ideally, have the apps ask if I wanted to import dupes or not)...but not seeing that option.
So - need your advice - best way to proceed with combining into a master now that I finally have all the separate libraries on the same drive???
ANY help would be much appreciated. I really don't use iPhoto much at all, but recognize that some of my masters are in that library file. I use Aperture, but will likely be moving to LR6 once I have all this reorganization done.
Thanks in advance for any help!
New iMac
Old iMac with attached firewire drive with iphoto and aperture libs
Current macbook pro with iphoto and aperture libraries backed up onto portable USB drive.
First things first, I thought. Attach the portable drives and copy all the libs from my old imac and macbook pro backup to the new Imac's attached 4TB USB3 drive. Drag and drop, I say. Error messages, says the iMac. So I resort to using terminal cp -R and it appears to go well (at least no error messages).
Now - ASSUMING (yeah, I know) that the copies went properly, I want to combine the libraries into a new "master" library on the 4TB drive attached to the new iMac. I was hoping there would be some way to simply merge the libraries and weed out the duplicates (or, ideally, have the apps ask if I wanted to import dupes or not)...but not seeing that option.
So - need your advice - best way to proceed with combining into a master now that I finally have all the separate libraries on the same drive???
ANY help would be much appreciated. I really don't use iPhoto much at all, but recognize that some of my masters are in that library file. I use Aperture, but will likely be moving to LR6 once I have all this reorganization done.
Thanks in advance for any help!