Is there a problem with the new Drive I purchased?

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Is there a problem with the new Drive I purchased?

Did anyone else have trouble with this? Is there a problem with the new Drive I purchased? It works ok when I moved the Photo Booth library to the same disk but I cannot get it to recognize the Photos file. I even made a folder called Pictures on the disk but I am still having the same problem. I even moved my original Photos file to the Trash but it still wouldn't open the file on the disk. Here is what it says: The library “Photos Library disk” is stored on a drive that uses an unsupported disk format. To access this library, copy it to the internal drive on your Mac or to a drive that uses a supported format. I even made sure the disk was set to "read/write". Any suggestions?

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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.2)

Posted on Sep 21, 2018 10:48 AM

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Old Toad

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Sep 21, 2018 8:04 PM in response to Leigh Stevens

How is the drive formatted? Make sure the drive if formatted OS X extended (journaled) with ownership set to be ignored:

If it isn't formatted like above, reformat it with Disk Utility.

Where is it safe to store a Photos Library? Requirements for the external drive

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Yer_Man

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Sep 21, 2018 2:45 PM in response to Leigh Stevens

There's your answer:

The library “Photos Library disk” is stored on a drive that uses an unsupported disk format.

The Library needs to be on a disk that is formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled). So reformat it using Disk Utility. Remember that reformatting will erase the disk, so back up anything already on it.

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Sep 27, 2018 9:26 PM in response to Old Toad

This was super helpful. Thanks so much. So, I moved everything over successfully to my new external hard drive and Photos was able to open.

Here is problem #2: I can open up the new Library on the external drive but I have lost all the album sorting from the original. Luckily, I didn't delete it and when I switched back to the old Library the album formatting is still present. Any suggestions?

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