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Can I access my photos library on a Time machine backed up drive onto a Windows machine?

Hi - I have a windows laptop and an external drive with a time machine backup. It has my whole photos library in there which I would like to move over to my new windows machine. I have managed to use a trial version of HFS+ which reads the individual files, but they are all incremental backups and I am not really sure how to do this or even how to do it efficiently. Any suggestions? Thank you.

Posted on Jan 26, 2019 8:58 AM

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Posted on Jan 26, 2019 10:24 AM

One can't access a Time Machine backup without launching the Time Machine app on a Mac and entering the backup thru the app. Neither the backup nor the app is + compatible with Windows.


If you want the photos to be accessible to a Windows machine you need to open the Photos libkrary on a Mac and export all of the original photos to folders on an external HD formatted for a Windows machine, FAT 32 or exFat.


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Jan 26, 2019 10:24 AM in response to emoubayed

One can't access a Time Machine backup without launching the Time Machine app on a Mac and entering the backup thru the app. Neither the backup nor the app is + compatible with Windows.


If you want the photos to be accessible to a Windows machine you need to open the Photos libkrary on a Mac and export all of the original photos to folders on an external HD formatted for a Windows machine, FAT 32 or exFat.


Can I access my photos library on a Time machine backed up drive onto a Windows machine?

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