Q: moving Photos library to external drive
I've run out of space on my MacBook air with my photos library. Can I move it to an external drive to it's based there (even though everything is backed up in the cloud?)
MacBook Air, OS X Yosemite (10.10)
Posted on Jun 29, 2015 11:15 AM
Yes, you can copy the library to the external hard drive provided it is formatted OS X Extended (journaled) with ownership set to be ignored.
However, you should open the library on the EHD and set it to be the System Photo Library. That will start a new upload of photos to the iCloud Photo Library (actually we believe it will just check both locations to verify they match and will upload only those photos that are in the library but not in the cloud). It may take some time to complete depending on the size of the library.
Then you can delete the library from the boot drive.
Posted on Jun 29, 2015 11:32 AM
