Transferring photos from Mac to Hard drive

How to transfer photos from Mac to external Hard Drive with Live Photo? Also how to transfer only the required photos to the drive?

MacBook Air, macOS 14.1

Posted on Nov 13, 2023 4:42 AM

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Posted on Nov 13, 2023 9:43 AM

Select the photos you want to move to the EHD and use the File ➙ Export ➙ Unmodified Original menu option. If you choose to export as an edited photo the Live photo will be lost and you'll only have an JPEG edited version.


Live photos will be exported with a JPEG and MOV file with the same name. Once imported into another library they will become live again.


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Nov 13, 2023 9:43 AM in response to _Utkarsh_

Select the photos you want to move to the EHD and use the File ➙ Export ➙ Unmodified Original menu option. If you choose to export as an edited photo the Live photo will be lost and you'll only have an JPEG edited version.


Live photos will be exported with a JPEG and MOV file with the same name. Once imported into another library they will become live again.


May 6, 2024 3:01 AM in response to Old Toad

hello,


what is the difference between drag and drop the media out of photos to a folder and using File ➙ Export ➙ Unmodified Original menu option ?


Variant 1 is faster for me but with errors... "cannot export file. unknown error (0)".

Variant 2 (your suggestion) is so **** slow.


What is happening there in those methods?


Are there other methods (faster and reliable)?

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