Transfer a portion of the photo library

Hi all

I am currently using a MacBook Pro 2013 Yosemite 10.10.5 running. I have 750 GB of internal storage, but it is almost full. Most of this storage is filled with photos and videos. I bought a 2 TB external hard drive and partitioned it, one for time machine and the other for storage. I have over 300 GB of photos and videos, some of them dating back to 2008. I don't want to send all those pictures in stock, everything up to the last year. (time machine has everything saved anyway) I tried to do this manually, section by section, but it became a right mess. The files were being duplicated in the external hard drive, sometimes up to 8 copies of the same photo. The order went all out of sync even when put in order of date, and some pictures have the same name. I found the instructions on how to move a whole library on an external hard drive, but then I got confused about this becomes your default library or something? I don't want to change the default location of the library, I want to just put a little library in stock, without making a mess. Anyway, I guess my question is the following:

1. How can I move that part of my library of Photos on a hard drive external, at once, without losing the order and without the hard drive of my library by default?

Also, I liked iPhoto. I didn't know it at the time, but now we have pictures, I love iPhoto. When he updated a year ago I just left, because I assumed that it had to be this way. Now that I try to spend it in stock I realize even once how the poor Photos, if...

2 is it too late to return to iPhoto? If I do how I move all the newly imported (last year) photos in iPhoto as well?

I wouldn't say my technical abilities on the Mac is that great at all so any help is appreciated.

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1. How can I move that part of my library of Photos on a hard drive external, at once, without losing the order and without the hard drive of my library by default?

Drag your photo library on your external drive, and you'll have a copy. You can switch between libraries by pressing the options then you launch Photos. Allows you to select the library you want to open.

. I don't want to send all those pictures in stock, everything up to the last year. (time machine has everything saved anyway)

You know that Time Machine will remove the older items in the backup, if she needs to release new backups storage?  If you the elements removed from your computer, they do not stay on Time Machine forever. What is your Time Machine partition? It must have at least 2.5 times the size of the disk of your Mac system. This will ensure that backups do not get deleted so quickly.

And Time Machine backup impossible a second partition on the same drive. It would be better to move the copy of your photo library to a separate data disc, not a partition of data on your Time Machine disk, so time Machine can include in the backup, and you'll always have a backup of the photos that you moved out of the internal drive.

2 is it too late to return to iPhoto? If I do how I move all the newly imported (last year) photos in iPhoto as well?

you will quickly become frustrated with iPhoto too. Apple is no longer supports. You can order is no longer iPhoto print products. So, it can break completely.

To resume work with iPhoto, you must upgrade to iPhoto 9.6.1.

You can only update iPhoto iPhoto 9.6.1, shows among your purchases on the App Store. Check the tab fourth appstore - purchases.  If you see iPhoto you can update by removing iPhoto in the Applications folder (do not empty the trash), then restart the App Store and click on "install". To install iPhoto 9.6.1.

Tip to see Barney:

Can't update iPhoto because it is not available in the App Store.

To move your latest photos to iPhoto export them photos and import it into iPhoto.

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