- How To Make External Hard Drive Photo Library On Mac Download
- How To Make External Hard Drive Photo Library On Mac Computer
Oct 20, 2015 As long as the external hard drive is connected, Photos will reference the library on the external drive instead of your Mac. Now quit Photos and eject the external hard drive. Open a new Finder window and navigate to the Pictures folder in the left sidebar again. Select the Photos file and move it.
Photos User Guide
Even if you use iCloud Photos, it’s important that you always back up your library locally using one of the following methods:
How To Make External Hard Drive Photo Library On Mac Download
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.
If you have more than one photo library, be sure to back them all up.
How To Make External Hard Drive Photo Library On Mac Computer
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.
