Mac move photo library to external drive5/16/2023 ![]() ![]() I was just quoting from an Apple support doc titled “Move your Photos library to save space on your Mac”, which seems to say that the external disc must be APFS or HFS+.įirst, the tech note in question doesn’t recommend a managed library on a NAS: I was just quoting from an Apple support doc titled “Move your Photos library to save space on your Mac”, which seems to say that the external disc must be APFS or HFS+. I don’t have a NAS, and this is getting over my head. The filesystem of the client is unrelated to the filesystem of the server. This has the same problem as iCloud… it’s not an offload, because the entire photo library still needs to be local, for it to be backed up. I totally agree, and I have no interest in “always access” to all my photos, which to me is the main promise of iCloud Photos. Nothing requires you to always have access to all your photos in the cloud at a moment’s notice For that, it needs to be on my Macbook, or a local an external/nas, or Mac Mini, from which it can be included it in backups via Time Machine, Backblaze/Arq, Carbon Copy Cloner). Hmm, I don’t see iCloud as viable “offloading” because I want the full library backed up properly (existing somewhere other than just iCloud). ![]() Even that’s not ideal because it’s putting a lot of eggs in a single local drive basket (with Backblaze as the backstop)… but one thing at a timeĪpple’s answer of course is offloading your image storage to iCloud Photos.
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