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Hello,
My family has an old imac (circa 2011) with a LOT of photos on it. I followed a tutorial online to format a usb drive and transfer my entire photo library onto it, but it just stayed "loading" at 0% progress for over 24 hours. Any suggestions or help would be greatly appreciated! The computer is very slow and glitchy, so we just want to get the photos off it then get rid of it. Thanks!
Earlier Mac models
A Photos Library must not be on an exFAT formatted drive. Prepare the external drive as described here to avoid problems with permissions and ambiguous filenames and path names: Move your Photos library to save space on your Mac - Apple Support
A Photos Library must not be on an exFAT formatted drive. Prepare the external drive as described here to avoid problems with permissions and ambiguous filenames and path names: Move your Photos library to save space on your Mac - Apple Support
What format did you set the USB drive to?
exFat. I suppose I could do the Mac-specific format though because I don’t foresee getting a pc
Thank you that worked!
You're welcome 😊
Can't transfer photos from old imac to usb drive!
