How can I keep ORIGINAL photos on my Mac, but choose ONLY specific copies to store on iCloud?

How can I keep ORIGINAL photos on my Mac, but choose specific copies to STORE on iCloud?

MacBook Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11.3), iPhone 4s

Posted on Feb 24, 2016 4:49 AM

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Feb 24, 2016 4:54 AM in response to Brian Ansorge

In other words, I just want to be able to sync a SUBSET of my complete Photo Library with other devices ... "in the Cloud."


A shame I have to rely on Dropbox so much.


I want to leave ALL my photos where OS X seems to want them, in my Pictures folder in my "User" Folder. Dropbox forces me to keep DUPLICATES in a special "Dropbox" folder. So, yes, there is a kludgy way to do it.


It would be nicer if Apple would simply get their act together and allow me to SPECIFY what files I upload COPIES of into to "Cloud" and still have the originals.

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