I had an older MacBook Pro die and it has all our vacation photos on it. They were not stored in ICloud. I have removed the hard drive and connected to my newer Mac. I want to import these photos onto my MacBook Pro but not have them imported to my iPhone or iPad. Is there a way in settings to ask to import photo or not import photo?
MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 12.7
It depends on what you wish to sync. You can create a new library for the photos on your external drive. You can shut off iCloud Photos on your Mac, which will then no longer sync with iCloud. You can turn off iCloud Photos everywhere to no longer sync your other devices. Or, some combination thereof
It depends on what you wish to sync. You can create a new library for the photos on your external drive. You can shut off iCloud Photos on your Mac, which will then no longer sync with iCloud. You can turn off iCloud Photos everywhere to no longer sync your other devices. Or, some combination thereof
If you are syncing your Photos Library with iCloud, then everything in your System Library will be just the same on your iPhone or iPad.
But-- you can have more than one Library. If your vacation pictures were in a Photos Library on the old hard drive, you can just rename and copy that Library to your new hard drive. Libraries just have to have the right suffix, like Vacations.photoslibrary, for instance.
As long as "Use as System Photo Library" is not grayed out in Photos Settings, then this Library can't be connected to iCloud.
If you close Photos and then Option-Click on the Photos icon, it will show a list of all of your Libraries. If it doesn't see one because it's in an unexpected place, you can show it where that one is.
Youll want to drag the photos to a location outside of the photos app. Otherwise, they will sync to your devices.
Thank you for that. But I’m a bit confused on how to download these photos just to my MacBook fro an external hard drive, and not to my iPhone and iPad? When I turn off Sync, this window pops up. So if I turn off sync will this keep photos from my external hard drive from downloading to my devices?
import photos to macbookpro but not to devices
