I'm getting my MacBook Pro wiped at the end of the year because it's the school's computer. I was wondering if my iPhoto photos on my laptop will be wiped as well? I use Time Machine, so will that help me recover them?
MacBook Pro (13inch, mid 2012) iPhoto photos
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Related Solutions
You could use a 3rd-party app such as the free WiFi Photo Transfer to access all those pictures on your MacBook Air. It uses a web browser to access the photos, so you don't have to install any software on the MacBook Air or deal with syncing.
The whole process is easy:
- Launch the app on the iPhone or iPad
- On your computer, you type in the address it tells you to in a browser.
- You can then choose to either download a specific picture or entire albums.
Another benefit is that none of the pictures are sent to the Internet.
CleanMyMac 2
CleanMyMac 2 has an iPhoto Cleanup feature. It will scan your library and give you the ability to delete photos that have been cropped, resized, rotated, or otherwise edited.
By default, it will delete the photos that have been rotated and/or with fixed Red-Eye, however you can also choose to delete the originals of any photos that have been edited in any way.
I have used this multiple times, and it's worked great, although it's worth noting that in the Rebuilding Library stage, it might appear that it's crashed, but it's still going - it does take a very long time!
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Best Answer
If you've been using Time Machine to backup your MacBook Pro to an external hard drive then yes, your photos will be backed up as long as you haven't specifically excluded them from being backed up.
To check:
As long as it's not listed, you'll be fine.
Another thing you can do is to also manually backup your iPhoto Library. The iPhoto Library is located within your Pictures folder.