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Photos/Videos delete

I was attempting to move my photos to an external hard drive and all my videos/photos are missing now. They storage is still almost full but there are no photos/video in my photo icon. I was doing so in order to clear space on my computer but now I have no space and no videos/photos. What happened and how to I restore my iCloud photos/videos back to my computer?

Posted on Jul 7, 2022 12:35 PM

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Posted on Jul 7, 2022 2:39 PM

Were you moving your entire library for the EHD or just image files?

If the entire library how did you do it? Click and drag to the EHD and then open the copied library before deleting the library on the source drive?


Launch Photos with the Option key held down and see what libraries are listed in the Open window:



Do you have a Time Machine backup of the library made just prior to the move?


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Jul 7, 2022 2:39 PM in response to jkik919

Were you moving your entire library for the EHD or just image files?

If the entire library how did you do it? Click and drag to the EHD and then open the copied library before deleting the library on the source drive?


Launch Photos with the Option key held down and see what libraries are listed in the Open window:



Do you have a Time Machine backup of the library made just prior to the move?


Jul 7, 2022 12:50 PM in response to jkik919

Without knowing exactly what you may have done, it's hard to give guidance. However:


  1. Log into iCloud.com/photos. Are your pictures still there?
  2. Check your Recently Deleted album in Photos? Anything there?
  3. You're not seeing anything in the library?
  4. Did you try to drag and drop all of your images? Or, were you following these steps: Move your Photos library to save space on your MacOfficial Apple Support › en-us


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