If I create a shared album in Photos, and add photos to it, does it take up space on my device(s) or are all the photos stored in the cloud?
Can I then delete the original photo from my device(s) and still have the photos available in my shared album?
iPad (4th gen) Wi-Fi + Cellular (MM), iOS 8
Hi Everyone!
Cheese, did you manage to solve your issue in the end?
I was also looking for a way to have access to all my photos but not have them stored on the phone itself. As far as i’ve learned, once you delete a photo on iphone it gets deleted on icloud and all your other devices and vice versa.
I then like you thought i’d create a shared folder -thinking this is stored *exclusively* on the icloud - and dump bunch of old photos there which i would then be able to access from my phone without using up space on the phone itself. I had 4.19gb of photos on iphone, created shared folder, moved half of the photos there and deleted the “originals”, h
owever what happened is now instead of reducing the load on my phone it increased to over 5gb for some reason (?!) and i’ve no idea why. Also, what’s odd is that on my Mac a lot of the photos in my new shared folder haven’t even synced.
I would appreciate if anyone has managed to sort out how to just have all your photos uploaded on iCloud and then just be able to access them without having to have the on your iphone *as well*. Thanks
Hi Cheese,
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities. Due to the nature of the issue you described you may find more information by using another one of Apple's support resources - https://getsupport.apple.com/GetproductgroupList.action.
Thanks Brett,
To be honest I was hoping to avoid an expensive call to Apple; I had assumed this would be a simple question that someone on these support forums would be able to help me with.
Not to worry.
If there is anyone else out there who knows the answer to this it would be much appreciated...
Anyone able to help me on this...??
Cheese a holic......a search brought me to this post of yours. I am new to the mac and need to know how to import my photos to the NAS. How did you do it? I honestly don't want to mess with the iCloud or PHOTOS on my MAC, I just want to go straight from the device to the NAS. HELP 🙂
snewsie wrote:
Cheese a holic......a search brought me to this post of yours. I am new to the mac and need to know how to import my photos to the NAS. How did you do it? I honestly don't want to mess with the iCloud or PHOTOS on my MAC, I just want to go straight from the device to the NAS. HELP 🙂
That is not possible - the Photos library can only be on a locally connected drive that is formatted Mac OS extended (journaled) - it can not be on a NAS
You can backup the photos (not the library) by exporting to the NAS
LN
No idea if this is possible or not...
Personally I use Photos app on my Mac and just copy my photos onto my NAS every couple of weeks or so as a backup.
Not ideal, but iCloud seems fairly stable at keeping my photos so I'm not too worried.
I've enabled iCloud Photo Library on all my devices, so they're sort of backed up if I lose / break a device.
Still no-one has actually answered my original post - do shared albums actually take up space on my device...???
Hello Cheese, I was told in a recent call to Apple that shared album photos do not take up space on the devices of the people you share with, so I am assuming the shared album doesn't take up extra space on my devices as well and everything is linked to the cloud copy. I think that this makes sense because if you notice when you open Sharing there is an Activity view which shows all the pictures again and in a sequence of time added. This would make 3 copies if they weren't just linking the originals. Not sure I can prove my theory though.
Thanks Cheese,
I actually just tried that...I guess I will download into photos and then just export to NAS in batches. Thank you! And I also have the same issue with the shared photos. My husband dumps so many into that shared album I feel like it's clogging my device but evidently not. My iPhone says storage is almost full but I literally only have 30 photos on it but the photo storage shows 4g used by photos?
do shared albums actually take up space on my device...???
If you create the shared album it will take up some additional space in the
Home/Users/Library/Containers/com.apple.cloudphotosd/services/com.apple.photo.ic loud.sharedstreams/Assets folder.
I don't know about shared albums that others have created and you subscribe to.
Thanks OT.
it was more in reference to my iOS devices (iPhone / iPad) which have more limited storage than my Mac.
if I create albums, and add my photos to the album, can I then delete the original copy, thus freeing up storage space on my phone?
Are the albums (and their photos) stored in the cloud or on my device?
Yes. If you add a photo to a shared album and then delete the photo from your Camera Roll it will remain in the shared album.
Brilliant!
So I can free up space on my device by adding photos to shared albums, then deleting the original?
I assume these shared albums count towards my iCloud storage space allocation?
I assume these shared albums count towards my iCloud storage space allocation?
OK (and please forgive me if this is a daft question)...
If shared albums don't count towards my iCloud storage allowance, and they don't take up space on any of my devices, where's the catch...???!!!
Use the Image Capture application on your Mac.
) or to see larger thumbnails (
), or to rotate (
) or delete (
) images. Drag the slider in the lower-right corner of the window to change the thumbnail size.Do shared albums take up space on my devices?
