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Is it possible to automatically sync photos and videos from a mobile device to my iMac without the need to store them on iCloud? Its just that my iCloud space is getting large and as they are backed up to my NAS drive as well, it seems a waste.
Thanks
iMac, OS X 10.11
Not automatically. You can keep the Photos library on your Mac identical to the library on your iPhone by connecting your iPhone to your Mac with it's USB cable and lets the library import art new photos on the iPhone to your Mac.
Are you storing your Photos library on the NAS or just the image files? If it's the library that won't work as the NAS is the wrong format to store the library on without damaging it. If you're only storing your image files on the NAS there's no problem.
Photos libraries MUST be stored on volumes formatted either APFS or Mac OS Exteded (journaled).
Not automatically. You can keep the Photos library on your Mac identical to the library on your iPhone by connecting your iPhone to your Mac with it's USB cable and lets the library import art new photos on the iPhone to your Mac.
Are you storing your Photos library on the NAS or just the image files? If it's the library that won't work as the NAS is the wrong format to store the library on without damaging it. If you're only storing your image files on the NAS there's no problem.
Photos libraries MUST be stored on volumes formatted either APFS or Mac OS Exteded (journaled).
Thanks for the response. You confirmed what I suspected. I will just store the "old and unlikely to be looked at again" images on the NAS and remove them from my Photos library.
sync photos without icloud storage
