PSA: Moving your iPhoto Library is Easy

By C.K. Sample, III

This is just a reminder: moving your iPhoto Library is easy. Just move it. It can be to another drive even. Pic up the folder and drag it wherever you like. Then the next time you launch iPhoto, you will be met with this wonderfully simple dialog:

Select Find Library and browse to your iPhoto Library's new location and watch everything load nicely. This is also a convenient way to manage multiple iPhoto Libraries. Simply keep your different Libraries in different folders and move the one you are currently using whenever you want to load one of the others.

[via Simon Brown]

UPDATE: No moving about of folders required. Thanks to Ray in the comments for this added bit: "Just hold down the option key while you start iPhoto and it will prompt you for a location of the library you wish to load or if you want to create a new one." 

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