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anewman143

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Jan 18, 2008
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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!
 
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