iCloud Photos
I have a very large Photos library that has surpassed my 4TB of iCloud storage. I have gotten a copy of my photos out of the Photos library, though I’m sure some will be missing, but it is what it is. I tried to turn off iCloud Photos, but I eventually have to do something else and can’t keep waiting for it to stop spinning. When I come back, iCloud Photos is still on. Trying to turn it off last night got my phone so locked up that I had to restore it. I have downgraded my storage to the Premier One 2TB since I will only be using iCloud Photos for iPhone photos and files and such. I created a new Photos library on my MBP (M1, everything updated, no betas), and I made it the system library, but then it started syncing to iCloud and my old library. I trashed the new library and went back to the old one but haven’t redesignated it as the system library. I noticed it is now missing about two months of photos. I tried to manually import photos from my phone, but it won’t connect to the device module in Image Capture and prepares endlessly in Photos.
I want iCloud Photos to delete everything there and just pick up with what’s on our phones. I want to manually import the photos from everyone’s phones to the old library and start fresh. No one’s devices can back up, and I am starting to consider if ease of use is just too controlling for me. It shouldn’t be this hard.
Can someone tell me how to get this to work the way I want? I need old library complete and fresh new library to sync with devices and iCloud Photos. Thanks!