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Copy Photos Library To External Drive Mac

How do I copy my iPhoto 9.6 Library from my Pictures Library to a LaCie External hard drive?

Make sure your external drive is formatted MacOS Extended (Journaled). 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)

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).

Copy files to iTunes Media Folder when adding to library. Also in the Advanced Preferences windows, click Change. From the iTunes Media Folder Location windows, navigate to the new drive (Backup Plus for example). Select where you want to move your iTunes data then click OK. From the File menu, go to Library Organize Library.
Press the Options Button which is next to the Photos. Then check iCloud Photo Library option, locate at Download new photo and videos to my PC, and click on Change to move your default location to a new location. Change the path to the external drive that is connected to your PC and click on Done. Now open iCloud Photos folder, click Download icon.
Once you've transferred a copy of your iTunes library onto an external hard drive, you will need to set a new path for the Music app by redirecting it to search the external hard drive for content rather than your local drive. Launch Music and hold down the Option Key at the same time. Click on Choose Library when the window appears.
Open the Windows Explorer file manager, browse to your Photos directory, select the files, press Ctrl+C to “copy”. Change to the path showing the external drive, and press Ctrl+V (place / paste).

Then drag the iPhoto Library from your Pictures folder to the external drive.

It is currently copied to my Time Machine and to cloud storage

What kind of iCloud Storage? If you copied the iPhoto Library to iCloud Drive,you will not be able to restore the library. iCloud Drive will probably corrupt the library by syncing. I tested with several small test libraries, and none could be opened on iCloud Drive, or copied back in a working condition.

The local copies on external drive are much better to save your photos.

Jan 21, 2015 10:09 AM

Copy Photos Library To External Drive Free

Tinochelli

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Copy Photos Library To External Drive Mac

Hi All,
So i make my position clear i am a relatively new Mac user and love the OS but am still learning (from my mistakes) as i go along. I have a MBP running 10.11.6 El Capitan OS. I imported all my pictures into Photo and its great. The issue i have now is i am running low on space. I have Paragon software and run Mac OS Extended Journaled Filesystem. My 2TB External drive has 3 partitions and are all NTFS (hence Paragon) and all partitions have existing data on them. I copied the library to the external drive but when i tried to open it i got an error I would like to put my library onto the external drive but i get an error when trying to open it which i believe is due to the file system.
Looking for some advice on the simplest solution to this issue. If i have missed out any info let me know
Cheers
Franco