iTunes and iPhoto folders

[jshelton]

I was manually backing up my media last night. I went to Finder and located my iTunes folder. It is actually a folder that expands. I put the entire folder on the external hard drive. Then I went to the iPhoto folder and dragged it over to the external as well. The iPhoto library was a single icon and not a folder that was expandable. Why is this?

 

[acxz]

Because it's a library, not a folder. You can right click > Show Package Contents and see what I mean.

 

[plinden]

It's not a library either. It's just an ordinary folder with a special attribute that Finder uses to determine how to display it. If you look at it in Terminal, it looks no different from any other directory.

 

[jshelton]

So dragging the iPhoto icon from Finder over to the external hard drive is saving all of the photos, correct?

 

[iLog.Genius]

Yes.