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Q: How do I transfer my 35,000 iphotos to my icloud account. what is the best way to do that?

What is the best way to transfer all my iphotos, (over 35,000) to icloud account? I have plenty of storage on my icloud

iOS 8.3

Posted on Apr 30, 2015 10:28 AM

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Q: How do I transfer my 35,000 iphotos to my icloud account. what is the best way to do that?

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  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Apr 30, 2015 10:35 AM in response to pwood2u
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    Apr 30, 2015 10:35 AM in response to pwood2u

    Do you have upgraded to MacOS X 10.10.3?

     

    Then migrate your iPhoto Library to  the new Photos.app for Mac and enable iCloud Photo Library, see this help page:  https://help.apple.com/photos/mac/1.0/?lang=en#/phtfd130a7d7

     

    To migrate your iPhoto Library to Photos, drag the library to the Photos icon in the Dock.  Make a backup of the library, before you do that.

    You will need additional free storage on the drive that is holding your iPhoto Library during the migration.

    The drive with the library needs to be formatted MacOs Extended (Journaled).

  • by pwood2u,

    pwood2u pwood2u Apr 30, 2015 10:58 AM in response to léonie
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    Apr 30, 2015 10:58 AM in response to léonie

    Okay I will try that. I opened icloud and tried dragging a 1000 of my photo over but it seems to be taking for ever to transfer.

    So just so I understand, I should drag my photos under iphoto library to the photo icon in my doc?

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Apr 30, 2015 1:30 PM in response to pwood2u
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    Apr 30, 2015 1:30 PM in response to pwood2u
    So just so I understand, I should drag my photos under iphoto library to the photo icon in my doc?

    You have to migrate your iPhoto Library as a library, not transfer the photos.

     

    • Either drag the complete iPhoto Library package from your Pictures folder onto the Photos icon in the Dock
    • Or hold down the alt/options key while launching the Photos.app by double clicking the icon and then select the iPhoto Library you want to upgrade to Photos in the Library Chooser panel that will appear.  This will create a new Photos Library, that will look large, but will not need much additional space, because it will bestirring the photos with your iPhoto library.

    Screen Shot 2015-04-30 at 22.26.06CEST.png

    See this link   Photos saves disk space by sharing images with your iPhoto or Aperture libraries - Apple Support