Recommendation to copy iPhotos from an old Macbook

Do you really mean only 120 MB of photos? That are just a few image files. Copying to an external drive or stick should not take long. Or do you mean 120 GB ?

Do you now have a new Mac where you want to use the photos? If the old Mac is running OS X 10.10.3 you could use it to create a new Photos Library from the old iPhoto Library. Any newer Mac with macOS 13 Ventura or later can no longer migrate iPhoto Libraries to Photos for Mac, but your old Mac can still do it and save your iPhoto Library as a new Photos Library, so you do not lose the events and albums. Then copy the new Photos Library to your Mac on a stick or external drive. This library can be opened in Photos for Mac on the new Mac.

Alternately you can copy the old iPhoto Library to your new Mac and use "File > Import" on your new Mac to import selected photos from the old iPhoto Library.

Lindsay_Woodinville wrote:

I have a very old Macbook OS X Yosmite that has not been functional for 10+ years.

By not functional do you mean you can't boot it up or do you mean you haven't used it in 10+ years.

If it's the former you're between a rock and a hard place. You will need to remove the drive, put it in an enclosure and use another Mac to try to access it and recover the image files.

It it's the latter then you're already been given the way to recover those image files.

File -> Export and export the images to a folder (or folders) in the Finder. Then upload them where you will.

There is no fast way to export, no secret tricks, bringing the machine to a service somewhere will only incur cost to do exactly what you can do at home, yourself. Also 120 MB is not many photos. It won't take long.

If you do no longer use a Mac export the photos to an external drive, that your Dell computer can read. Even if it will take a few hours, but you cannot keep your photos only in the cloud - you need at least one physical copy as a backup and for ready access at at home.