How to sync external hard drive's photo library with iCloud?

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How to sync external hard drive's photo library with iCloud?

Hi All,

I have a 200 Gb file photo library on my external hard drive, and I using macOs High Sierra with photos ver 3.0. I have 30 Gb remaining storage in my macbook I also have 2 Tb storage in iCloud.

Could you give me suggestion how to sync or move my photos library on the external hard drive to icloud so I only have 1 database photo and it will be on iCloud, and can access with all my apple device .

Thank you for you for your help.

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Irwan

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Posted on Jan 24, 2024 1:29 AM

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léonie

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Jan 24, 2024 1:50 AM in response to irwanjaz

Hello, Irwan,

To store your photos in iCloud, you may want to enable iCloud Photo Library on your Mac. See: Use iCloud Photo Library to store photos in Photos on Mac - Apple Support (IN)

The Photos will store all your photos and videos in iCloud. But you will still have a local mirror copy of your Photos Library on your Mac. You can make this local copy somewhat smaller by enabling "Optimize Storage" in the Photos > Preferences > iCloud. Photos will automatically remove some high resolution originals and keep them only include, when you need to free storage.

Your local copy of the library cannot be stored in iCloud or on a server in your local network. That will damage it could cause data loss. But you can safely move the library to an external drive, that is mounted locally and directly plugged into your Mac. Prepare the external drive as described here: Move your Photos library to save space on your Mac - Apple Support

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