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LacyAD Author

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How can I get my photos off my MacBook Air ?

I have over 12,000 photos and it is taking up all the space on my MacBook Air. They are backed up on an external drive and on iCloud. How can I remove them from my Mac to free up space?

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Jul 28, 2020 4:18 PM

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tygb

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Posted on Jul 28, 2020 9:12 PM

You can select few photos see this article Select and deselect photos in Photos on Mac - Apple Support and delete to recently deleted folder see this article Delete photos or recover deleted ones in Photos on Mac - Apple Support ( its your choice to delete them permanently immediately or after 30 days the photos will be removed from the iCloud server ) .

In this way the complete photo data is still on external hard drive , but the space is reduced in photo library .

See this article to export photos Export photos, videos, and slideshows from Photos on Mac - Apple Support

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