Photos Display photos in dropbox

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Photos Display photos in dropbox

Does Photos support either Dropbox or Onedrive,

I have 2 Onedrive accounts and a dropbox account between them they probably have some 400Gbs of pictures.

My Macbook only has a 256GB drive so i cannot just import them to the local drive.

Does photos allow me to view them, comparatively windows has this feature by creating a small thumbnail of the picture but still indexing its size and location etc...

does mac support any of these things and if not would anyone recommend a program that does?

Posted on Jul 10, 2020 4:54 AM

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léonie

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Jul 13, 2020 9:57 AM in response to David1_1

The syncing with One Drive or DropBox will damage the Photos Library or break the links to the photos, if you are using a referenced library. Apple says so in this document: Updating from iPhoto to Photos for macOS – Apple Support

" If you store your Photos library in a location that's part of a cloud service (for example, Dropbox, Box, or Google Drive), your library might be damaged by the syncing process. As a result, you could lose photos.

To see your photos on all your devices, you can use iCloud Photo Library. To back up your library, you can use Time Machine."

I cannot recommend any program, that will do that, sorry.

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Old Toad

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Jul 10, 2020 10:09 AM in response to David1_1

No. You would be best served by getting a portable, bus-powered, external SSD to house and run your library from. MacSales.com offers a number of very reliable drives that include very good warranties and excellent customer support.

This is what I use:

It's not a pretty as one with its own case but is less expensive, smaller and easily stored in a case pocket and can be easily switched out for another bare SSD for other uses, i.e. a clone of the boot drive for backup. Just some food for thought.

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