Migrating from iPhoto

[mattsullivan]

Hi.

This is my first post here.
I'm an interactive designer who also teaches Photoshop for photographers at one of the local universities where I live. As a former sysadmin, I've been obsessed with solid backup practices for a long time. Now I am the family curator of our photo library (all in iPhoto) and I'm realizing some of the limitations of using iPhoto to manage my growing library of images. I'm now beginning to move these images (about 80,000 in 9 iPhoto libraries).

If anyone here has recommendations for migrating nine iPhoto libraries into Peter's DAM system I would be most appreciative. I was thinking of using iViewMedia's "Getting Started" feature to import the iPhoto libraries. I looked at a trial version of Expression Media and it appears that Microsoft pulled that feature  

Thanks in advance.
Matt

[peterkrogh]

Matt,
I think iView/Expression is a good way to see what's up with your iPhoto library. It probably won't be a fun experience sorting through all the duplicate copies.

You can still download iView
http://www.iview-multimedia.com/index2.html

You could try the iPhoto import from this, and then move to expression once that's done.

Peter