bjpiper

Q: I have a MacAir installed with Aperture.  All my photo's are stored on exdternal drive. How do I upload all these to iCloud - some 50 GB and 10,000  photos? My iCloud has 200GB storage.

I have a MacAir recently installed with Aperture.  All my photo's are currently stored on external hard drive in 100s of folders.  How do I upload all these photos in their folders to iCloud.  My iCloud storage is 200GB.

MacBook Air, OS X Yosemite (10.10.2)

Posted on Mar 24, 2015 10:50 PM

Close

Q: I have a MacAir installed with Aperture.  All my photo's are stored on exdternal drive. How do I upload all these to iCloud - ... more

  • All replies
  • Helpful answers

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Mar 25, 2015 12:49 AM in response to bjpiper
    Level 10 (107,942 points)
    iCloud
    Mar 25, 2015 12:49 AM in response to bjpiper

    Wait, until MacOS X 10.10.3 has been released his spring. The Photo.app for Mac, that will come with MacOS X 10.10.3 will make it possible to migrate an Aperture library to a Photos Library and store it in iCloud, so you can use it from all your devices, see this link: Apple - OS X - Photos Preview

     

    But Aperture libraries cannot by stored in a cloud storage. An Aperture library needs to be on a locally mounted drive, because aperture does not support remote access to the library. If you try to move your Aperture library to a Dropbox or on iCloud Drive, it will be corrupted by the network access.

     

    See Apple's recommendations:   Use locally mounted Mac OS X Extended volumes for your Aperture library