Q: Can I use more disk space for Photos on iCloud than I have in my local device?
Hi, I sucessfully upgraded to Yosemite and moved from iPhoto to Photo App. I also synched my Photo library to iCloud Photo Library, using the "optimize disk space option". So far, everything went fine.
My challenge is that I will be running out of disk space on my Mac Mini soon, and I have still tons of pictures sitting on other devices. My hope was that I could pour all my Photo collections together, using iCloud Photo Library. Certainly, the iCloud space needed for this would exceed the capacity of my local drive.
I wonder if there is a way to handle this, e.g. by marking pictures dated before day X as "archived" on iCould, so that they will only pulled down to local devices when they are actually demended for. How are people with large, and I mean really large, picture databases handling this? I don't think that I should be installing terrabytes of local drives when there is iCloud Photo Library. Am I correct?
Thanks a bunch
U1F
Mac mini (Early 2009), OS X Yosemite (10.10)
Posted on Sep 30, 2015 10:21 AM
