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I have moved my iPhoto library to an external hard drive and now I can't sync my photos to my iPad during backup and sync.?

iMac 24″, macOS 12.0

Posted on Dec 6, 2021 5:13 PM

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léonie

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Dec 6, 2021 11:18 PM in response to ggardner48

The syncing with the iPad is only syncing the System Photos Library. After moving the library, you have to make it again the System Photos Library.

If you have not yet done so, open your Photos Library in Photos, then go to the menu "Photos > Preferences".

In the "General" tab click "Use as System photos Library", then restart Photos and try to sync again.

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Yer_Man

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Dec 6, 2021 10:37 PM in response to ggardner48

If you're using MacOS 12 then you're not using iPhoto, but actually Photos, the app that replaced iPhoto 6 years ago.
What format is the external drive? It needs to be formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled) or APFS and directly connected to your Mac

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Yer_Man

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Dec 6, 2021 11:22 PM in response to ggardner48

What format is the external drive? It needs to be formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled) or APFS and directly connected to your Mac

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ggardner48 Author

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Dec 6, 2021 10:45 PM in response to Yer_Man

Your right im sorry, yes I'm using photos and running OS12. photos works fine as I've redirected the Library loc to the external drive. My problem is when I want to sync my iPad and sync photos, it seems to be looking for the old loc on the Mac and I can't see where to tell it to look at the new loc.

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