Photos and iCloud
Hello,
I have been trying to organise my photos with great difficulty over the last few months. I have now got over 50,000 photos on my iPhone and Mac photos app - with all photos on one shared iCloud account (as well being backed up on external hard drive). I don't want all of the many old photos on my iPhone, plus I am also worried about deleting things by accident and losing the photo on all devices.
I am thinking about creating a second archive photo library for the more recent photos, and I would then use that as my iCloud storage too (and therefore make as my system library). I am just not sure how I go about actually doing this - do I deselect the iCloud on the first library and then tick the box on the second library? Will this lead to items being deleted? On my Mac I have the box ticked to download originals and on my iPhone I have the optimise storage box ticked.
I really don't want to do anything that will lose my precious photos. Just wondering if anyone has done before and can advise on how I can keep things organised without losing photos. Hope this makes sense.
Thanks so much,
Ellie
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.13