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best way to export all photos to external drive

What is the best way to export all photos to an external drive?


MacBook Pro 13", macOS 10.14

Posted on Jan 17, 2020 12:23 PM

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Posted on Jan 18, 2020 3:54 AM

The external volume needs also to be locally mounted and must not have been used for Time Machine backups, see: Move your Photos library to save space on your Mac - Apple Support

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Jan 18, 2020 2:58 AM in response to Calvinator73

You've a wonderful way of not answering a question ;)


I'll take a wild guess and assume you want to move your Phots library to an external disk. This means you will want to continue using Photos as before...


Make sure the drive is formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled) or afps

 

1. Quit Photos


2. Copy the Photos Library from your Pictures Folder to the External Disk. You can do this by simply using drag and drop


3. Hold down the option (or alt) key while launching Photos. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library' and navigate to the new location. From that point on this will be the default location of your library.


4. Test the library and when you're sure all is well, trash the one on your internal HD to free up space.



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