Q: Can I start a new iCloud Photos System Library before the old huge one has deleted?
A couple years ago I tried to use iCloud Photos Library and it copied 56 thousand photos. I turned it off, but have just discovered they are all still there! I am traveling and want to start a new, clean, lean, iCloud Photos Library to safely copy all of my new photos for a month. I tried to relink to the old set of photos, but even if I delete them all with "Cancel", "Delete All Photos", they are not erased for 30 days. (?) Can I delete them all at once somehow? Can I create a new Photos System Library on my Mac, and then create a new iCloud Photos Library without it adding all 55 thousand of the old ones? Or do I have to relink to the 56 thou photos in iCloud and starting deleting them (a couple hundred at a time perhaps)? Thoughts?
iMac with Retina 5K display, OS X El Capitan (10.11.4), 16GB RAM
Posted on Mar 30, 2016 4:24 PM

