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transfer of Photos (ver 5) to external disc as storage for new mac

photos from older iMac version 5 will not load on new mac version 6. I sucessfully transfered file from iMac (late 2013) to an external storage disc but new 24 mac will not read because of version difference Help

Posted on Jun 11, 2021 7:21 AM

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Posted on Jun 11, 2021 9:53 AM

If you open it in version 6, it should just convert it.


However, you need to make sure your external disc is correctly formatted for a Photos library. It needs to be APFS or MacOS extended (journaled). With the ignore ownership checkbox checked.


See:

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201517


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transfer of Photos (ver 5) to external disc as storage for new mac

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