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How to back up your Mac. Time Machine makes it easy to create system-wide backups, while iCloud is convenient for creating additional redundancy for your photo library.

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This article is about backing up the photos on your iPhone, if you are looking for a solution to back up a Mac or the Best Mac backup software we have separate articles (click on the links). Quit Photos Copy the Photos Library from your Pictures Folder to the External Disk. Hold down the option (or alt) key while launching Photos. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library' and navigate to the new location. From that point on this will be the default location of your library.

A few months ago when OS X Yosemite was first shown to the public, Apple demonstrated its new Photos app. This app is meant to simplify photo management for all Mac users by emulating the looks and functions provided by the Photos app on both the iPhone and the iPad. This simplification comes at a cost though: when it finally releases its Photos app, it will replace iPhoto, its legendary photo management app that has been on every Mac by default for years.

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This move will definitely be hard on a lot of users, especially those who, like me, got used to working with iPhoto for so many years.

Even worse: for most of us, our photo albums hold a huge number of dear memories, and as with every update, there is always the possibility of something going wrong when the time comes to migrate to the new Photos app.

With that considered, here are a couple of short guides on how to back up your iPhoto library both the simple way and the not-so-simple way.

Back Up Your iPhoto Library: The Easy Way

First, the good news (or bad depending on how you see it). In a very Apple way, in order to keep things simple and integrated on OS X, Apple consolidates your photos into a single, giant file that represents your photo library. But this file is not composed of just your photos, it also holds very important meta-data, like your events, photo stream shots and such.

To find your iPhoto library, open any Finder window and click on the Pictures folder. There you should find it.

To back it up manually and without complications, all you have to do is copy the entire file to any destination you want. It can be a USB flash drive or a portable backup disk if you want and that’s it.

Cool Tip: If you want to transfer your iPhoto Library to another Mac just plug your drive to it and copy your iPhoto library backup to the target Mac’s Pictures folder. Be warned though, this will replace your existing iPhoto library. So this tip is mostly targeted at new Mac owners or for those who perform a clean install of OS X.

Back Up Your iPhoto Library: The Less-Easy Way

If you want more control over what to back up from your library, there’s a way to do it that requires some digging around but that is perfect for that purpose.

For this, you have to head to the same iPhoto Library file within your Pictures folder, except this time instead of copying it, right-click on it and then select the Show Package Contents option.

Then, head to the Masters folders. There you will see several folders categorizing the different years your photos belong to.

When you open each of them, you will find folders for the different events, albums and dates that contain the photos as you organized them in iPhoto. There you will be able to select exactly what you want to back up and the way that you want to back it up.

And there you have it. Now you will always be in control of your photo library and most importantly, you will have peace of mind in case things don’t go that well with the new Photos app. Enjoy!

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With iCloud Photo Library, all the photos and videos from photo library ar stored in iCloud. It is useful to access them from any iOS devices, Mac or iCloud.com. Even if you use iCloud Photo Library, it is important to backup your library anywhere else. To do so, you can manually copy your library to an external device or use Time Machine. To manually copy your library to an external storage device, drag the 'Photos' library to your storage device to create a copy. By default, you will see 'Photos' library in the 'Pictures' folder on your Mac.
If you want to use Time Machine, you need to set up Time Machine on your Mac. Once you have set up, it automatically backs up the files on your Mac. If you ever lose the files in your 'Photos' library, you can restore them from the Time Machine backup.
If you have more than one photo library, make sure that you have backed up them all. The image files which are stored outside your photo library, those files are known as 'Referenced files'. The Referenced files are not backed up when you back up your library. You need to backup those files separately. If you want to backup all your photos or image files at a time, then you can consolidate Referenced files into your library.