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How do I move my photos library to an external drive?

What are the step by step instructions for moving the new Photos Library to an external hard drive in able to free up space on my MacBook's drive?

I searched the forums and did not find anything related to moving the new photos library, not the old iPhoto library. A concern I have after reading through older threads is if videos will transfer over properly. I read that videos will turn into stills. I don't want to lose my videos. I plan on making a back up of my entire MacBook via Time Machine to a separate external hard drive before I even start this process at all but I want to make sure I do all of this correctly.

I have a MacBook Pro running OS X Yosemite version 10.10.3.

I will have 2 separate external hard drives. One for the MacBook back up and one for the photos library to be stored on.

Thanks!

MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)

Posted on May 6, 2015 11:41 PM

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Feb 8, 2017 10:31 AM in response to Yer_Man

Thank you ! Can you share the setting for time machine please.

LarryHN

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Feb 26, 2017 7:26 AM in response to Dewang Modi

1 - yes

2 - no

Takopus

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Mar 4, 2017 9:02 AM in response to LarryHN

Thank you, I use it as a back up service for my photos as well as a few other cloud based services as a redundancy as I know they are all prone to issues.