HT202786: iCloud Photo Sharing
Learn about iCloud Photo Sharing
Q: Do shared albums take up space on my devices?
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Nov 27, 2015 11:13 AMby LarryHN,snewsie wrote:
Cheese a holic......a search brought me to this post of yours. I am new to the mac and need to know how to import my photos to the NAS. How did you do it? I honestly don't want to mess with the iCloud or PHOTOS on my MAC, I just want to go straight from the device to the NAS. HELP
That is not possible - the Photos library can only be on a locally connected drive that is formatted Mac OS extended (journaled) - it can not be on a NAS
You can backup the photos (not the library) by exporting to the NAS
LN
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Nov 27, 2015 11:32 AMby cheese_aholic,No idea if this is possible or not...
Personally I use Photos app on my Mac and just copy my photos onto my NAS every couple of weeks or so as a backup.
Not ideal, but iCloud seems fairly stable at keeping my photos so I'm not too worried.
I've enabled iCloud Photo Library on all my devices, so they're sort of backed up if I lose / break a device.
Still no-one has actually answered my original post - do shared albums actually take up space on my device...???
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Nov 27, 2015 11:42 AMby calhoste,Hello Cheese, I was told in a recent call to Apple that shared album photos do not take up space on the devices of the people you share with, so I am assuming the shared album doesn't take up extra space on my devices as well and everything is linked to the cloud copy. I think that this makes sense because if you notice when you open Sharing there is an Activity view which shows all the pictures again and in a sequence of time added. This would make 3 copies if they weren't just linking the originals. Not sure I can prove my theory though.
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Nov 27, 2015 2:19 PMby snewsie,Thanks Cheese,
I actually just tried that...I guess I will download into photos and then just export to NAS in batches. Thank you! And I also have the same issue with the shared photos. My husband dumps so many into that shared album I feel like it's clogging my device but evidently not. My iPhone says storage is almost full but I literally only have 30 photos on it but the photo storage shows 4g used by photos?
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Nov 27, 2015 3:32 PMby Old Toad,do shared albums actually take up space on my device...???
If you create the shared album it will take up some additional space in the
Home/Users/Library/Containers/com.apple.cloudphotosd/services/com.apple.photo.ic loud.sharedstreams/Assets folder.
I don't know about shared albums that others have created and you subscribe to.
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Nov 27, 2015 4:29 PMby cheese_aholic,Thanks OT.
it was more in reference to my iOS devices (iPhone / iPad) which have more limited storage than my Mac.
if I create albums, and add my photos to the album, can I then delete the original copy, thus freeing up storage space on my phone?
Are the albums (and their photos) stored in the cloud or on my device?
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by Old Toad,Nov 28, 2015 11:15 AM
Old Toad
Nov 28, 2015 11:15 AM
in response to cheese_aholic
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Photos for MacYes. If you add a photo to a shared album and then delete the photo from your Camera Roll it will remain in the shared album.
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by Old Toad,Nov 30, 2015 12:10 PM
Old Toad
Nov 30, 2015 12:10 PM
in response to cheese_aholic
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Photos for Mac
I assume these shared albums count towards my iCloud storage space allocation?
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Dec 3, 2015 10:36 AMby léonie,Use the Image Capture application on your Mac.
- Connect your iPhone to your computer, then turn the device on. If the device is locked with a passcode, enter it.
- Launch Image Capture. In Image Capture, select the device in the Devices or Shared list.
- Use the buttons at the bottom of the Image Capture window to view the thumbnails as a list (
) or to see larger thumbnails (
), or to rotate (
) or delete (
) images. Drag the slider in the lower-right corner of the window to change the thumbnail size. - Click the Import To pop-up menu, then choose where to save the images on your NAS.
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Dec 3, 2015 10:38 AMby léonie,So I can free up space on my device by adding photos to shared albums, then deleting the original?
But only, if you are satisfied with a reduced image quality.
The photos in the Shared albums have a reduced pixel size. You will want to save the high quality originals somewhere.
