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Sep 23, 2015 5:29 AM in response to Dan Mitchell1by léonie,★HelpfulHow do you want to access the photos you upload to iCloud?
- If you want to preserve the folder structure and access the photos using the Finder, store them on Cloud Drive. iCloud Drive will look like a special external in the sidebar of your Finder windows. iCloud Drive FAQ
- If you want to access the photos using the Photos.app, import them to your Photos Library and enable iCloud Photo Library. You will be able to manage the photos in Photos and edit them or share them, but you will not be able to access the photos using the Finder. iCloud Photo Library FAQ
Both solutions may not be, what you are looking for. If you simply want to get the photos off your Mac to free storage and use iCloud like an external drive, that will not work. Both, iCloud Drive and iCloud Photo Library are central storage places to update the content across all your devices. The documents will be mirrored on your Mac fo offline access, and any change you do on any device will sync to iCloud and from there to all devices.
To save storage on your Mac you could use iCloud Photo Library with the option "Optimize Storage". Then all photos will be in iCloud in full resolution, but your Mac will keep smaller, optimized versions and not the full sized originals.
And if you use iCloud drive, you could disable it on your Mac, so nothing syncs back, and access your photos solely using the web interface ait www.icloud.com.
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Sep 23, 2015 6:38 AM in response to léonieby Dan Mitchell1,Basically I want a spare, full size, copy ,of my years of photos somewhere else safe in case of disaster to my Mac.
So iCloud Drive seems a possibility - but with a folder content of 70G photos I could not have the system syncing back to either an iPad Mini or iPhone both of which do not have the space, being of total size each of only 32G..
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Sep 23, 2015 7:29 AM in response to Dan Mitchell1by léonie,iCloud Drive and iCloud Photo Library are not really backups. Copies of your photos will be in iCloud, but because of the updating of any changes across all devices you cannot restore photos from iCloud if you accidentally delete or modify them on your Mac. The changes will sync to iCloud, so the photo will be modified or deleted in iCloud to.
I keep a second backup in addition to my regular Time Machine backup on an external disk, that is locked away at my place of work. another backup drive is in my safe in a different room.
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Sep 25, 2015 1:14 AM in response to léonieby Dan Mitchell1,Above is not a problem as I always edit copies of any photo file.
And I have two seperate Timemachine backups of my Mini content + a Super Duper clone - but all kept on-site in the same house as the Mac Mini - hence the wish for a Cloud copy.
I have sent my whole photos folder to iCloud Drive as probably being the best solution. How do I limit them syncing back to an iPhone or IPad ?
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Sep 25, 2015 3:41 AM in response to Dan Mitchell1by léonie,I have sent my whole photos folder to iCloud Drive as probably being the best solution.
if it is a plain folder with snesetd ubfolders and image files, that will work. But if it is a Photos Library or iPhoto Library or similar, the library can become corrupted by the syncing,
How do I limit them syncing back to an iPhone or IPad ?
Your iPhone and iPad will only copy the files onto the devices, if you click the download link or open the images on the device. So don#t open any photos on the iPad or iPhone, that you do not want to download.