Q: How do I remove individual albums from photos and send them to an external hard drive?
Newbie Here and grateful for any help.
I have been scanning lots of old photos. I have purchased a WD My Passport for Mac. I would like to remove some older albums of scanned photos from PHOTOS and put them on the My Passport. How do I accomplish this? Also, did I purchase the right external hard drive and/or do I need to format it? The clerks in Best Buy make it sound so simple...."Just put your pictures on an external hard drive".
I guess I should mention that I have iCloud set to store pictures and I have an airport time capsule set up.
Thank you to anybody who can help me!
iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.5)
Posted on Jan 16, 2016 7:26 PM
Also, did I purchase the right external hard drive and/or do I need to format it?
Waht is the filesystem of the drive?
Select the icon of the drive in the Finder and press the key combination ⌘I (short for "File > Get Info").
The Info panel will show the file system in the Genera section:
If the file system is not MacOS Extended (Journaled) reformat the drive with Disk Utility before you move any data to it. Formatting will erase it.
The procedure is explained here for Aperture, but the same goes for Photos: Format external drives to Mac OS Extended before using with Aperture - Apple Support
I have been scanning lots of old photos. I have purchased a WD My Passport for Mac. I would like to remove some older albums of scanned photos from PHOTOS and put them on the My Passport. How do I accomplish this?
To save your photos on the external drive you have two options - just saving the individiual photos or saving the the Photos library.
It would be preferable to copy your Photos library to the drive. This way you will save the edited versions with all metadata you added and the original images in the est quality.
If you export the photos you will have to make up your mind, if you want to export the edited versions or the original versions, or both.
- To save the library, simply drag it from the Pictures folder to the external drive.
- To save the individual photos, open one of your albums, then select all photos with ⌘A, then use the command "File > Export > Export ... photos" and select a a high quality format t the original size. Do taht for all albums. Check if the export went well, before you delete the photos from the library. To delete photos from an album use the key combination ⌘⌫ command-delete.
Empty the recently Deleted album only after you have convinced yourself that the exported photos are o.k. and you have a backup.
Posted on Jan 17, 2016 4:12 PM
