HT204264: iCloud Photo Library
Learn about iCloud Photo Library
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Oct 27, 2015 12:44 AM in response to thepaiotsby léonie,★HelpfulHow are you uploading the photos to iCloud?
- Are you using the Photos.app with iCloud Photo Library enabled on your Mac? Then you cannot delete the photo from Photos on your mAc. The Photos Library on your mAc will be in sync with the copy in iCloud. Any photo you delete from Photos on your Mac will be deleted from iCloud as well.
- If you are not using the Photos.app on your Macwith iCloud Photo Library enabled, but the web interface and the Photos.app at https://www.icloud.com/#photos , you can delete the photos from your mac, that you upload to iCloud, because the Photos library on your Mac is not set to update iCloud.
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Oct 27, 2015 12:45 AM in response to léonieby thepaiots,I am actually uploading from the Photos app...
Photos-->Preferences-->iCloud
Do I have any other option ?
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Oct 27, 2015 1:28 AM in response to thepaiotsby léonie,★HelpfulEnable "optimize Mac storage" in the photos Preferences iCloud pane.
this way, photos wil remove the original image files from your Mac, if space is needed, and replace them by smaller, optimized versions. When the originals are needed, they will be rietrieved from iCloud. You will need an Internet connection to edit your photos in photos, if you use the optimize option.
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Oct 27, 2015 1:28 AM in response to thepaiotsby AlekThunder,If you’d like just store images in iCloud, turn on iCloud. After that wait until all photos will be uploaded. From this you can delete your Photos library from your Mac. If in the future you want to have them in your Mac, just create a new empty library an turn on iCloud in it; all images will be downloaded
If you’d like to save your Mac storage, you also can create a virtual disk of small size and create Photos library in it with also setting Optimised mode.
But my mind is - iCloud is not the way to save Mac space. To me, the best way is - having WebDAV cloud service - all the images are in cloud and nothing is in Mac
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Oct 27, 2015 1:40 AM in response to léonieby thepaiots,Shall I do it once the upload to iCloud is completed?
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Oct 27, 2015 3:48 AM in response to thepaiotsby léonie,You can enable "Optimize Mac Storage" anytime.
But make a current backup of your Photos Library before you do that. It is much safer to have a local backup of all your photos and not to have to rely on iCloud to access them. Otherwise you will be in trouble oin case of network problems.