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PaulWith Author

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Photos (Macintosh running Big Sur) and iCloud

I have designated a new Photos library to be my Photos System library. I'm now trying to get iCloud to synchronize with this new library. Specifically, I want the photographs stored on iCloud to download to the Mac's Photo library, which I've selected in Photo's Preferences to be the Photo's system library. (This library is on an external drive connected to my MacBook.)

However, iCloud doesn't appear to be synchronizing. I can see that iCloud now sees a couple of new albums that were on the Mac, but hasn't uploaded the photos into those albums. Nor has iCloud downloaded any of the photos on iCloud into the new Mac Photos system library.

How do I get iCloud to synchronize these two libraries so that I have all my photos on my ?

Cheers

MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 11.6

Posted on Sep 30, 2021 5:13 PM

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PaulWith Author

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Posted on Oct 1, 2021 7:28 AM

OK. The answer to my own question is: The synchronization process is quite slow. I waited overnight and found the system had synchronized - mostly. Still some to go, but mostly done.

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