Oh, and I also forgot to mention that rsync is great in the future too. Say you export your whole library of 4000 pictures and then a week later you add a new album to iPhoto. If you do the rsync again, it will build the list and figure out that most of the pictures are already there and only copy the new ones. Neat!

Hmm, it also looks like there is a graphical rsync utility for OS X called arRsync, found at arrsync.sourceforge.net, although I haven’t tried it to see if it would work for this purpose.

1) Open Terminal.app or iTerm, a great Terminal replacement.
2) Navigate to your iPhoto Libray folder: cd ~/Pictures/iPhoto Library
3) See what exists in the folder: ls
4) Copy the “Originals” folder: rsync -av Originals /local/path/to/export/to/.
5) Copy the “Modified” folder if necessary: rsync -av Modified /local/path/to/export/to/.
6) Done.

Note: “cp -v” can be used instead of “rsync -av”, but I recommend using rsync as it builds a transfer list and picks up where it left off if it is interrupted. I personally used rsync since it will copy files over SSH to another computer. So, in step 4, I typed “rsync -av Originals username@desktop_computer:/remote/path/to/export/to/.” instead. Also note that typing “rsync -av Originals/ /path/.” is different than “rsync -av Originals /path/.” as the former will copy the contents inside the Originals folder, while the latter will copy the whole Originals folder intact. Hopefully this is still helpful for someone. :)

I don’t want all of those movies files taking up space in my iPhoto Library but that’s where they end up in the new version of the app which makes very little sense to me.

I’ll try consulting the iPhoto help and then see what the toobs have to say about this subject. Thanks for the tip on accessing files inside of a package!

When I attempt to Control + click the iPhoto Library file in Firefox’s standardized Upload dialog as is appears in your blog post as well, I get no options from the Control + click action. Basically, nothing happens. What browser were you using? I just copied the files from the sub-folder within the iPhoto Library package window to my desktop which kinda sucks but I couldn’t get Firefox’s default Upload browser window to give me those Control + click options you show in your post when I clicked the YouTube upload video button.