I wouldn’t go the route you suggest by storing the actual real library on an external drive.
#HOW TO EXPORT PHOTOS FROM MAC TO EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE 2016 ARCHIVE#
What I would do in your situation, if you can’t get a newer Mac right now, would be to save an archive of your entire Photos library file to an external drive. That’s the right way to do it.īut in your case you are stuck with a tiny hard drive and this problem, so you may want to consider it. That means I have all my photos on my drive as well as in iCloud. I use it on my laptop, but my desktop is not set to Optimize. Now I don’t like using “Optimize” on a Mac, at least not your main Mac. The second will save space by only keeping recently accessed photos around, and the rest as thumbnails. You can use “Download Originals to this Mac” or “Optimize Mac Storage.” The first option gives you everything. The setting for this in Photos, Preferences, iCloud. Then when you need to edit or share a photo, it grabs the real one from off the server. It can, instead, store thumbnails of those that take up much less space. At least not the full resolution versions. But it doesn’t have to store them locally. It then stores copies of them locally too, so you can quickly access them for editing, sharing, etc. It does this by storing all of your photos, the original full resolution versions, on Apple’s servers.
ICloud Photo Library is actually designed to save space on your drive.
If it is, consider archiving it to an external drive and deleting the copy on your internal drive.
See if the old iPhoto library is there in your Pictures folder. So it essentially doubled the amount of space on your drive used by your photos at that moment. When you did your transition from iPhoto to Photos, it copies all of the pictures from your iPhoto library to your new Photos library, but it did not delete your iPhoto library. The first thing you may want to do is to check to see if you still have your old iPhoto library.
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