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Hi
Couple of questions:
1)
How do I move the location of my iCloud photos library to another drive. The latest version (12.5) of the control panel only has two options under Photo's and neither allow moving the folder location.
2)
When I open the photos folder it loads the thumbnails for each photo every time, and considering I have 16,000 photos makes the ability to edit photos impossible.
Many thanks
Windows, Windows 10
Hi Cormorin, We appreciate you reaching out to us. We understand that you are looking to move the location of your iCloud Photos library to another drive.
We recommend that you check out the steps under the "Find your photos on your PC" to help you find your photo library.
Set up and use iCloud Photos on your Windows PC
From there, you can move your photos to another drive.
Also, we understand that you are experiencing issues editing your photos because iCloud for Windows loads all the thumbnails.
We’d like to gather additional details that may help us be in a better position to assist you with the second issue.
Are the thumbnails not loading properly?
How are you editing your photos? Are you using a third-party software?
Please keep us posted.
Take care!
Cormorin, Thank you for keeping us posted. Because of the nature of this issue, we recommend that you team up with our Photos experts.
Our Photos experts are in a better position to provide you assistance with Photos-related issues.
You can use this link to reach out to them: Photos - Official Apple Support
Take care!
the control panel automatically loads photos folder on c: drive and I want my photos on d: drive.
the tutorial doesn’t show me how to move the location.
The link goes to tutorials only and associated with MACs not the PC apple control panel.
back to the community- can anyone help ?
Cormorin,
We recommend that you use the "Get Support" link on the support page that we've provided if you would like to reach out to our Photos experts.
Take care!
Windows 11 - iCloud Control Panel
