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I have moved my Photos app with full resolution images from iCloud to an external hard drive and would like my iCloud to have reduced sized images and still communicate with iPhone and MacBook Pro. Is that possible?
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So basically I have full resolution on my external hard drive AND in the iCloud. And of course I’ve run out of 4 TB of storage. I would like to free up my iCloud space rather than pay an addition 25.00 a month. Are they any other options aside from deleting images?
For sharing pictures in Photos Libraries, iCloud holds the Master Library, and all other connected devices are copies (complete or optimized) of the iCloud Photos Library.
iPhones and iPads use Photos to access their Libraries. But a Mac can have more than one Library! But only one of those, the System Library, can be connected to iCloud Photos.
So I have several Libraries on my Mac--an Old Family Pictures Library, a work Library, and so on. And I have a Library called Favorites with pictures that I have copied over from my other Libraries. This is my System Library, the one that I also see on my iPhone and iPad; it's the Library of pictures that I share with friends and family. I keep the System Library, which isn't so terribly big, in my Pictures folder on my Mac. Mostly I edit pictures in the other Libraries, and when I'm done, I copy them to Favorites.
Most of us who use multiple Libraries use the trusted 3rd party app PowerPhotos ($30) to help with copying and keeping the Libraries straight.
So that's how I do what I think you may want....
iCloud holds originals, devices can optimize storage.
Is it possible to reduce size of images in iCloud and still communicate with iPhone and MacBook Pro?
