- Apple Photos Library External Drive
- Mac Photo Library Location
- Copy Photos Library To External Drive
- Find Photo Library On Mac
Mar 18, 2020 In the Finder, go to the external drive where you want to store your library. In another Finder window, find your library. The default location is Users username Pictures, and it's named Photos Library. Drag your library to its new location on the external drive.
In the browser window that appears, navigate to your external hard drive, click the iPhoto Library file you've copied and click Choose. IPhoto will open and as long as the external hard drive is. To transfer your photos library from an Apple Mac to an external drive, you first need to locate the photos or a folder you wish to move. You can right-click and copy, then paste in the new location. Dragging and dropping will also copy the images or folder. Navigate to your user account’s Pictures folder. 5) Connect an external hard drive, a USB thumb drive or other storage device to your Mac, wait until its icon appears on the desktop. Now drag the “Photos Library.photoslibrary” file from the Pictures folder on the storage device icon.
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Apple Photos Library External Drive
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Even if you use iCloud Photos, it’s important that you always back up your library locally using one of the following methods:
- Use Time Machine: After you set up Time Machine, it automatically backs up the files on your Mac. If you ever lose the files in your Photos library, you can restore them from the Time Machine backup. For more information about setting up Time Machine, see Back up your files with Time Machine.WARNING: If a Photos library is located on an external drive, don’t use Time Machine to store a backup on that external drive. The permissions for your Photos library may conflict with those for the Time Machine backup.
- Manually copy your library to an external storage device: Drag the Photos library (by default in the Pictures folder on your Mac) to your storage device to create a copy.
Mac Photo Library Location
If you have more than one photo library, be sure to back them all up.
Copy Photos Library To External Drive
Important: If any of your image files are stored outside your photo library, those files (known as referenced files) aren’t backed up when you back up your library. Be sure to back up those files separately. To make it easier to back up all your image files at once, you can consolidate referenced files into your library. See Change where Photos stores your files.
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