I have followed all the steps in this guide but I still get an "error 8003" when copying the Photos Library to a external drive. The file is 300Gb and the drive is empty and 2TB. Any ideas?
This is not a external drive formatting issue or a trash issue.
Trash is empty
Drive is freshly formatted.
So after a few weeks of trying I fixed it myself. I thought I'd leave the answer here in case anyone else suffers.
Basically I had to turn Wifi off on my mac as I deduced that as my Photos Library was connected to iCloud it was constantly being updated as I took photos on my iPhone. So as the 300Gb file takes a few hours to copy I guess that iCloud was trying to update the library whilst i was copying it and this caused the error.
That's my best guess anyway.
What kind of external HD (rotational or SSD) are you using and how is it formatted?
So after a few weeks of trying I fixed it myself. I thought I'd leave the answer here in case anyone else suffers.
Basically I had to turn Wifi off on my mac as I deduced that as my Photos Library was connected to iCloud it was constantly being updated as I took photos on my iPhone. So as the 300Gb file takes a few hours to copy I guess that iCloud was trying to update the library whilst i was copying it and this caused the error.
That's my best guess anyway.
Error 8003 when copying Photos Library
