Copy Photos Library To External Hard Drive
Hi Gary, I am using an older Mac with “only” 80 gig hard drive. Operating system is 10.11.6. When the conversion from iPhoto happened, my pictures took over my computer and I now have less than 1 gig left. I preferred the old way of transfer using a physical connection to Image Capture to transfer to an external drive. Now with iCloud, I can’t do that. Neither can I download from the cloud anywhere but my hard drive (which doesn’t have room). I’m afraid of losing data but something must be done. Is there a solution? I realize that performance will be slower but I need the computer for other things as well. I’m really afraid to take ANY step until I’m certain I won’t delete data. I looked through your posts, questions and answers and I didn’t see this specifically addressed. If I’ve missed it, please feel free to direct me to that conversation. Many thanks.
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Cathy
Copy Photos Library To External Drive Online
Transfer Photos from Photos App to External Hard Drive on Mac. Connect your hard drive with Mac and create a new folder in it. Open the Photos app on your Mac. Select the photos you want to transfer and choose Export from the File menu (also, here y ou can choose to only download original photos or edited photos included). A reader wants to have a copy of his Photos Library on an external drive that looks like what he sees in the app. Mac 911 By Glenn Fleishman, Senior Contributor May 19, 2016 10:00 pm PDT. You can check that with 'File Get Info' for the drive. If the file system is different, copy the contents of the drive somewhere else and reformat the drive. (See: Format external drives to Mac OS Extended before using with Aperture) Then drag the iPhoto Library from your Pictures folder to the external drive.