How to get iphoto to save directly to external drive?

[p1tse]

I'm looking at a MacBook Pro but will have only 256gb

I want iPhoto's, iphone backups to go to an external drive when saving pictures down on macbook

How is this done?

I don't want to clog up the internal ssd

Also any recommendations to the external hard drive?

 

[sphexx]

I assume you are using "managed" photos in IPhoto rather than keeping the originals outside. You can put your iPhoto library wherever you like and either start iPhoto by clicking on the library or Alt-click on iPhoto app/shortcut and navigate to the library or create a new one. You can have multiple libraries in iPhoto via Alt-click and it will also open Aperture libraries. [You can have multiple libratirs in the new Photos app too but only one default one, obviously.]

 

[sphexx]

I assume you are using "managed" photos in IPhoto rather than keeping the originals outside. You can put your iPhoto library wherever you like and either start iPhoto by clicking on the library or Alt-click on iPhoto app/shortcut and navigate to the library or create a new one. You can have multiple libraries in iPhoto via Alt-click and it will also open Aperture libraries. [You can have multiple libratirs in the new Photos app too but only one default one, obviously.]

Replying to my own post, but that may all be academic as if you are buying a new MacBook you won't have iPhoto on it. iPhoto does work on the latest OSX and maybe you can copy it across from your old machine.

 

[John wells]

Have you looked at ifttt, it has lots of scripts that run in the background, I have them running on a few accounts that will back up my iPhoto to Flickr and one drive

 

[shreds]

'Photos' is considerably slower than the former iPhoto on downloads. However as its the only way to get photos off the iPhone due to Apple's overbearing control freakiness, my workflow is to pull out shots from 'Photo' immediately they have downloaded and then move them to my external drives alongside my normal shots which are directly downloaded from the CF cards.

 

[sphexx]

'Photos' is considerably slower than the former iPhoto on downloads. However as its the only way to get photos off the iPhone due to Apple's overbearing control freakiness, my workflow is to pull out shots from 'Photo' immediately they have downloaded and then move them to my external drives alongside my normal shots which are directly downloaded from the CF cards.

Although I don't make much use of "Photos" I find it is much quicker than iPhoto or Aperture at importing, displaying and subsequently scrolling through photos and so on.
I don't find that "Photos" is the only way to get photos off the iPhone. I can transfer them to Aperture or iPhoto via Photostream, via SD card plugged into phone or via Dropbox. I'm finding Dropbox the most convenient and obviously it may cut out an extra step if you want to import to a non Apple program.