In this video, I'll show you how to safely move your Photos library to an external hard disk and free up an amazing amount of space in the process.
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@howtosreviews84896 жыл бұрын
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@andreabussue58976 жыл бұрын
HowTos & Reviews I followed your instructions and in worked. But I have a question. Why is it, I deleted over 175G of data and only got back just about 95G. Something is not right with my computer. It's cheating me.
@caveat5295 жыл бұрын
This is the drive I backed up over 25,000 iPhone images onto. Thank you for the video; the instructions are so clear and helpful
@charlesedwardandrewlincoln81815 жыл бұрын
Are there any other ones you would suggest?
@60ftunder905 жыл бұрын
HowTos & Reviews thanks dude just wanted to say you did a really great job, not to fast but also not slow, great pace and great video.
@angelarogerson68615 жыл бұрын
G Technology are the best external hard drives for Mac, preferably get one with it's own power source.
@daylight14404 жыл бұрын
I went to apple 3 different times and spent over 10+ hours on the phone with them trying to do this exact thing you showed in less than 10 minutes. Liked for the youtube algorithm to boost this video.
@tony7457 жыл бұрын
I was very scare to delete my pictures, but I followed every step, and I am so happy, thank you, so much, I really appreciate you taking the time to do this video.
@howtosreviews84897 жыл бұрын
So glad it was helpful to you. Thanks for writing and best wishes!
@GelynnLopez5 жыл бұрын
This really helps me rn, I was trying to edit videos but I couldn’t bec I dont have enough space. Thanks to you! 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼
@HyramBautista3 жыл бұрын
I was pulling out my hair, ready to throw a chair across the room and you literally made me take a deep breath and do this much easier. thank you
@SonyaSunny3 жыл бұрын
Have you synced up your new photos onto your computer/external hard drive since doing this?
@evanliang75296 жыл бұрын
Honestly, this was an extremely well put together video that was perfect explained. I am very impressed. Good job.
@boatman2223454 жыл бұрын
Thank you, thank you, thank you! I was just getting ready to spend hours trying to figure out how to do this and your video saved my day...literally!
@semraergun40724 жыл бұрын
You are like the Bob Ross of technology instructions, calming, helpful and I was able to do it step by step. Thank you!
@JoshandNikki075 жыл бұрын
This was a blessing! I’ve been at my slow computer for an hour trying to copy and paste 13,000 images and videos to my hard drive!! I decided to search YT and quickly came across your video! I now have the photos copying on my hard drive and feel completely relieved !!! Thank you!!
@chevyprerunner17 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the very detailed Video, I've battled my Mac and Seagate 1Tb External hard drive for a few years trying to figure out how to save old photos and videos onto the External drive to free up space on my Macbook Pro and off load new pics from my DSLR camera for editing for so long and at last i've been successful thanks to you!! It was a blessing haha thanks again!!
@howtosreviews84897 жыл бұрын
Hey, so glad the video was helpful to you! Thanks for writing and sharing your experience. Best wishes!
@aprilnicolegonzales22527 жыл бұрын
Chevy Prerunner saMe here!! Thanks really appreciate your Video. Good JoB.👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻 Very helpful.-PinaY Here.🤗
@clarisseh.82113 жыл бұрын
I struggled for YEARS to do the latter... this video honestly got me out of my comfort zone and forced me to learn more about my Mac and it’s components. I am now able to update and download freely- because I have free space now !
@katierosemond53783 жыл бұрын
THANK YOU. Please never delete this video - This tutorial was exactly what I was looking for and answered all of my questions. I just made a google doc instruction sheet for myself, and linked this video. Thank you!
@MohenadItayim5 жыл бұрын
Just completed on my wife's laptop. Thank you for the very clear instructions, and look forward to seeing more from you. Seeing it is better than reading how to do it.
@lauracapote19993 жыл бұрын
You are very clear and I followed your tutorial step by step after years of fear of losing my pics, I finally have them in an External Hard Drive. THANK YOU so much!! Laura
@demorider18794 жыл бұрын
This was SUPER helpful. My computer wouldn't sync with anything because I had too little space left. As I have tried to back up my photos before, I stopped short because I was afraid of losing my pictures. Even though this vid is now 4 years old, it was very accurate and useful. Thank you!
@tomgillett79483 жыл бұрын
I have added a LaCie 4TB External drive to my Macmini system. I then went on a search for a clear set of instructions on how to move the Photos library from the hard drive to the LaCie drive. Today I found this KZbin instruction for making the move. THIS ISVERY CLEAR, PRECISE AND EASY TO FOLLOW. THANK YOU.
@wandergogirl16165 жыл бұрын
HUGE BLESSING for me!! I’ve been trying to figure out how to move photo files to external hard drive and was hesitant about trashing the photos folder. Thank you!!
@faith86315 жыл бұрын
this is truly amazing, very clear and detailed for a noob like me to follow along, thank you so much!!!
@jacquelinedefatta13782 жыл бұрын
So helpful!!! I've been needing to do this for YEARS and you made it so easy and understandable. Thank you for your time and creating this video to help others. :)
@MrBillkaz9 ай бұрын
dude how much of a Straver is it I was about to throw myself out of a window having to constantly squeeze in a pinch. Every little bitches to process one image because of the high megabyte count especially when I enhance the photo file to be Lightroom this is great buddy congrats.
@Markph76 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much for the patient and complete instructions. A few wrinkles you ironed out made things much safer and better for me. Saved lots of space on my air
@sweettreats1254 жыл бұрын
My god this just saved me. Everything I looked up was saying different things and I was confused and could never get it right. This is actually so simple. But you made it clear that it’s so simple by explaining it the way you did. Thank you!
@agatha19626 жыл бұрын
This was really helpful. I had only 66 GB of photos, but just put them on my external drive and am expecting improved performance. Thanks for a clear and concise video that was easy to follow and detailed each step in the process.
@HeyItsDena6 жыл бұрын
omg this is so so so so helpful! thank you!
@lucianofinardi72225 жыл бұрын
Excellent video! EXACTLY what I needed today since I am transferring my photos library from an iMac to my Mac Pro. Thank you!
@jademay21426 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much I've been trying to move my photos for months now, you're my saviour !
@artease12385 жыл бұрын
This was SUPER fantastic, WONDERFULLY informative, SUPERBLY understandable and clear, and TRULY a great "how to" explanation for moving my photos from Mac to hard drive!!! THANK YOU FOR SHARING!!!
@kirstenmckenzie40427 жыл бұрын
thanks for the help, I couldn't figure out how to do this properly even following other online resources, and i consider myself tech-savvy, great explanation, worked perfectly.
@howtosreviews84897 жыл бұрын
Happy to help. Glad you were able to make a success of it!
@robertchaney46714 жыл бұрын
I freed up146 gigs. The procedure was well articulated and yes, it was a blessing. Thanks.
@MrPistolwhipped666 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for this tutorial. I've searched high and low for this!
@VJKUnited7 жыл бұрын
I was really wondering for days how to solve this issue. Thank you for giving me PEACE OF MIND.
@howtosreviews84897 жыл бұрын
You're very welcome!
@VJKUnited7 жыл бұрын
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@Dragon-xd4ru6 жыл бұрын
OMG thank you so much! I just copy and pasted the photos from the phone to a folder on my external hard drive. All 2,567 of them. I wanted to be able to search for things and edit through the photos app and I watch only a little bit of your video just to get me on the right track. Thanks everything is all set. Thanks so much! :)
@zoey.amelia5 жыл бұрын
Dragon hello! Can you please elaborate how you transfered your files from you phone to the external?
@ollejarleborg12074 жыл бұрын
I have watched different U-tube videos about this issue and I must say that this video is the best ! very informative and simple !
@LizzyPorter4 жыл бұрын
Thank you!!! watched a thousand videos and no one explained it like you did. 🙏🏼❤️
@kathysullivan77836 жыл бұрын
Great tutorial. Very easy to follow and understand. Thank you so much!
@BestofIrelandEire6 жыл бұрын
Hands down best video on youtube regarding MacOS
@howtosreviews84896 жыл бұрын
I'm glad you found the video to be helpful. Best wishes!
@ehmbee22 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much! You did a great job explaining this with a slow and easy step-by-step process. I found this incredibly helpful!
@FernTheCamper2 жыл бұрын
Thank you! If I could go back in time, I would NEVER have gotten a mac. It's been one battle after another...
@MistyAntonioli7 жыл бұрын
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!! This helped me free up 75 GB of my internal storage!!!!
@howtosreviews84897 жыл бұрын
I'm so glad it helped. Best wishes!
@Zzz_rose5 жыл бұрын
I’ve been struggling the last 3 days trying to transfer my photos. Thank you so much for the help! It worked perfectly
@umeshc37173 жыл бұрын
3 months myself... :-( sniff!! still in the process.. this video helped get out all the photos onto an external hard drive that I had to 'learn' to format to ex-FAT n use just this morning. SO learning it is... although i'd prefer a one on one tutoring to use the mac.
@nutrientdensepermaculture93913 жыл бұрын
I really appreciate you taking the time to put this together!
@alexprowseartist4 жыл бұрын
Thank you for taking time out to show a comprehensive move, I have in the past ended up with just thumbnails, completely ruing my photo collection. Cheers
@jaskaranbains71614 жыл бұрын
truly a blessing applied the same concept but on myphone backed up all my photos from my computer to my har drive then delete doff me phone thank u very uch
@kellylawrence23364 жыл бұрын
Why does everything have to be so long winded with apple though?! Grr.
@jerryx20004 жыл бұрын
lol watch the video at 2x speed. then its shorter
@asterrdinoo4 жыл бұрын
Jeremy Eden *whEeZe*
@trustrus03824 жыл бұрын
If anyone is interested in speeding up a Mac the best info that i've had was by using the Mels Speed Method (just google it) definately the most useful resource i've followed.
@articbrushr39173 жыл бұрын
I hate Apple
@articbrushr39173 жыл бұрын
@WakinTheDeadFan me too I truly regret buying mine it just gives me anger issues
@sreekumarUSA6 жыл бұрын
Blessings, of course. Thanks a ton, bro. Appreciate the time you spent describing the procedure. I saved several GBs from my SSD. Cheers.
@martynali175 жыл бұрын
I was very nervous to make the big click and empty trash but it seems like it worked! The instructions are calmly explained which made this video very easy to follow and understand. THANK YOU!
@MonicaSancio6 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much! My photos library was copied so fast, with 12,583 photos... That now I'm wondering if everything got copied correctly (54 MB), so that I can proceed and delete Photos from my laptop.. Wish me success! ; ) Thanks for your super clear explanations!
@howtosreviews84896 жыл бұрын
You're welcome. Sorry for the delay. 54MB sounds too small....but the real test is for you to test the new library by attempting to open it as shown in the video. Also, after you put your old library into the trash, you can still retrieve it (before emptying trash). So it's a great idea to first test the new library. Then put the old library in the trash. Then retest the new library and make sure everything is working. Then you can have the confidence to empty the trash. This triple check will make sure you won't have any unpleasant surprises.
@Wyfly247 жыл бұрын
thank you very much! very well explained 100% helpful.
@howtosreviews84897 жыл бұрын
So glad the tutorial was helpful to you! Thanks for the feedback!
@ronaldmejia68917 жыл бұрын
HowTos & Reviews I FOLLOWED EVERYTHING YOU SAID , but something came out and says: NO REFERENCED FILES TO CONSOLIDATE. What that means ? Thank you.
@D2scherer7 жыл бұрын
That happened to me too ...
@screwtape1337 жыл бұрын
Happened to me too - all that means is your library is already consolidated (in one location). So the step is already completed. (Please, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong - that's just how it went for me).
@desertmav86325 жыл бұрын
Yes indeed! This video is a few years old but REALLY helped me!
@oniivee5 жыл бұрын
So my 56000 photos are transferring right now. Easily understandable tutorial. I’m grateful. Thanks
@TheTobyOMG4 жыл бұрын
Thank you. You've saved a family years worth of memories and baby photos.
@natalialupu31086 жыл бұрын
Hi, thanks for the video! Very clear! But I have a question: is there a way to copy photos from the library in a regular way without using the library itself? I want to be able to open the files on a windows pc without the hassle of downloading any programs to the other computer. So, can they be transferred separately as simple files? Thanks again!
@WinsDominoes7 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much. It is helpful for me.
@marilynroberts94905 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your great tutorial for us old timers with a new iMac! Greatly Appreciated!
@TheBlondandBrunete103 жыл бұрын
Wow I’ve been searching for a video for months where was this the whole time... so helpful!
@FionaHedgecock5 жыл бұрын
Thank you from the bottom of my heart - I've spent practically ALL DAY trying to figure out how to do this, and have found other KZbin videos on the subject laborious and frustrating. You have explained this extremely well and have 'taken me by the hand' to help me achieve this! I had not emptied my phone since 2015, and have had to purchase more iCloud space over time - 5 weeks ago I even ran out of that, meaning nothing has been backing up. Hopefully now I can clear my iCloud, phone, iPad and laptop and start afresh. It's terrible to be so computer illiterate - perhaps I shall do a course - something designed for Dummies in my case!!!
@WellWithChels_4 жыл бұрын
Very informative, thank you! But I got a little confused at 5:20. I don't want all the pictures I upload from my phone to Photos Library to go straight to the external hard drive. I don't plan to always have my external hard drive plugged into my laptop. I want to manually put the photos onto the hard drive when I chose to (a few times a year maybe). I renamed the Photo Library I put in the hard drive so I can decipher between the two but now when I go to see my current Photo Library from my laptop I have to chose the Systems Photo option.
@lisascheible6 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much! I have been getting messages saying my startup disk is full for months now and I had to get my pictures off the main hard drive. Very straightforward tutorial!
@DanielColageo3 жыл бұрын
Thank you SO MUCH! You're the bomb! This made the whole process so much simpler, and less swears, for me.
@BicMacAndChips14 жыл бұрын
Great tutorial and just moved my library across. A quick question, how do I open the "photos library" if I end up getting a windows PC in the future?
@norasaad31364 жыл бұрын
BicMacAndChips1 this is my big question 😭
@Namastefi28087 жыл бұрын
Thx Clear and easy :)
@howtosreviews84897 жыл бұрын
You're very welcome. Thanks for the feedback!
@jesselle20115 жыл бұрын
I am so grateful for the simple and straight to the point instructions! I searched in Google everywhere for instructions and most of them are out of date and the steps do not match my system. Thank you so much!
@kianakan968263 жыл бұрын
You have great voice and anyone can tell you are patient. Love this easy explanation!
@PH-qt6fj3 жыл бұрын
Why is so freaking difficult for Mac users, holy shit. Windows: drag, drop, and done.
@PicScannerforiPhoneiPadApp3 жыл бұрын
Because Mac Photos keeps everything in a hard-to-access "package file" (See appinitio.medium.com/hey-mac-user-where-are-your-photos-d9056ee4963e). There's a Mac app 'Photos Takeout' for extracting them into regular folders.
@victoriaclem84127 жыл бұрын
Hello, I'm having a hard time doing this. When it comes to the step of passing the pictures to the hard drive it says the action is not possible, I tried putting the library on my documents then passing to the hard drive but I couldn't. Any idea what should I do?
@howtosreviews84897 жыл бұрын
I haven't heard of this problem before. A couple questions. #1 Are you sure your hard drive has sufficient space (these photo library files are large!). #2. Are you sure the external hard drive is in a format that Apple can recognize? (if you can successfully drag a single photo or file from your desktop to the hard drive this is not the problem).
@reidskyler4 жыл бұрын
This happened to me and all I had to do was register my hard drive. Missed the very first step!
@Eppeh3 жыл бұрын
Thanks, this has saved so much memory on my internal hardrive. Love your accent too!
@sharaogin14 жыл бұрын
GREAT video. Great explanation. Just what I needed. I guess 3 yrs later, not much changes!
@ritavizer78727 жыл бұрын
Once the Photos library is on my hard drive, can I open the files in another laptop, for example in Windows?
@matthewelerick6484 жыл бұрын
No
@matthewelerick6484 жыл бұрын
The hdd is a hfs+ mac format
@MuSiC8019544 жыл бұрын
If I switch my computer to non-mac, will I still be able to see these pictures from the hard drive? Or do I need the app photos to see them?
@celinareyes18254 жыл бұрын
You will need the photos app from Mac. I just tried this on my PC and I couldn’t open the photos. I also tried it on a very old Mac that had iPhotos app and it said I needed “Photos” app. Mac always making things so difficult...
@xstina_ali_benaiah73763 жыл бұрын
Thanks for your simple video. Getting straight to the point. I have saved so much space. Appreciate that .
@PedroBrandaodrums5 жыл бұрын
Appreciate the video, just did on mine here, I bought a 1TB hard drive, I had about 22000 + photos and videos, it took nearly 3 hours to do it. Now its time to clean it up. Thanks for the video.
@priyam0087 жыл бұрын
The most simplified version ever. Thank you. Question: So I sold my old Macbook and I copied the photo library just the way you described above to an external drive. Now would it be possible to take this library from external drive and permanently move to the new Mac I have just bought rather than plugging the external drive every time I want to see my old photos?
@hicaylaji5 жыл бұрын
Priyam Verma I have the same question!!!
@estihindrastuti27032 жыл бұрын
waiting for an answer for this too
@jennacheatham57555 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much!! Finding this video was such a blessing!
@sasha_nz6 жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot! This was incredibly helpful. I freed up some space on my macbook and at the same time transferred my actual photos to my external hard drive.
@SudipBhattacharyya7 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing
@howtosreviews84897 жыл бұрын
You're most welcome. Have a great day!
@MrChrishammer114 жыл бұрын
I receive "The Finder can’t complete the operation because some data in “Photos Library” can’t be read or written. (Error code -36) Has this happened to anyone? And if so can you shed some light on this issue? Much appreciated!
@norkagonzalez34084 жыл бұрын
There are several suggestions for speeding up Macs easily Use the Activity Monitor. If you want to see what apps are using up your system, open the Activity Monitor in the Utilities folder. Turn off visual effects. Most Macs are now capable of running Mac OS X Mavericks. Update your software (and it set to auto update) Clean up your hard drive. (Reference: Achak Speed Plan website )
@myrealusername99983 жыл бұрын
My problem is that it tells me the photos are in iCloud and I have to delete everything on iCloud
@lillithjones9932 жыл бұрын
@@myrealusername9998 I try to avoid icloud because I haven’t figured out yet how to download to my computer in one big folder instead of clicking on each item to download. That could take FOREVER.
@beeamadeusfox4 жыл бұрын
Really good little video which guided me through how to safely transfer my photo library onto an external drive. Many thanks!
@isaaclaughter7 ай бұрын
Indeed a blessing. Thank you sir! I purchased an external hard drive so as to delete my apps and then redownload them to my external. Seeing this vid helped me determine that my apps take up nowhere near the amount of space on my Mac SSD that my photos do. I just cleared so much space! Again thanks!
@melissalovelock86327 жыл бұрын
Hi there, I have made it to one of the final steps of deleting the Photos library/moving it to the trash, but it has been taking a very long time and just has the "Moving Photos to Trash" with an empty progress bar. Should it be taking this long to delete from my Mac? Thanks :-)
@howtosreviews84897 жыл бұрын
Yes, this does happen at times (slow transfer to trash). Correct me if I'm wrong, but everything worked out in the end, right?
@ThePM7507 жыл бұрын
Hi, I have the same problem. For some reason is saying moving 2 items to Trash, its been there for good half an hour. When I moved the photos to external drive it took not even 20mins. Should I wait and just give it enough time?
@Darksagan7 жыл бұрын
Its a whole lot of Nudes!
@melissalangford91027 жыл бұрын
I have this problem too. It has said, "Moving 'Photos Library' to trash for about 3 hours now. Did it finally work out for either of you? If so, how long did it take? I'm not sure if I can still use my computer for other things because the storage was so full.
@maryue21477 жыл бұрын
well mine says 2 days x.x
@alliewallie12346165 жыл бұрын
Whenever I try to open up the file in my drive this message pops up: "this library contains items that need to download from iCloud library". I've been stuck for hours and all my photos won't show up. What do I do?!?!?
@mariesosseh93624 жыл бұрын
same problem here
@k.barbiee4 жыл бұрын
did you ever figure it out? the same happens to me
@mariesosseh93624 жыл бұрын
KK nooo😅😫😫
@wewea17814 жыл бұрын
Yes me too, did you find out what to do please I don’t know what should I do
@MrMoises273 жыл бұрын
@@wewea1781 I have the same problem, did you fix it?
@QueenofDC6 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much! Excellent instructions that enabled me to free up tons of space. 30K photos using all my space.
@inrpeace75 жыл бұрын
This was A HUGE blessing! Thank you!!!
@burandone143 жыл бұрын
When I drag my library onto the external hard drive it has a gray circle with a line through it. It won’t let me drop it on my hard drive. It’s this but gray > 🚫
@creativehypestudios87333 жыл бұрын
I had the same problem, watch this video it will help you fix your external hard drive kzbin.info/www/bejne/qaK3mIyJhdmbeq8
@myrealusername99983 жыл бұрын
It’s not formatted to Mac, I had the same problem until I got a Mac specific hard drive
@Gohighnotlow6 жыл бұрын
Loved this and thank you for the help, I need to free up space on my Mac and am going to do it now. Thank you so much. Yes a blessing :)
@dhudong99463 жыл бұрын
Man it's 2021 and your video still helped me a lot! Thanks!
@alliaproberts33467 жыл бұрын
I'm getting ready to transfer 40,000+ (yes, 40,000+) photos to my external hard drive. I'm so nervous that I'll do it wrong and lose all of our children's baby/toddler/gradeschool pics! Ugh......wish me luck!
@howtosreviews84897 жыл бұрын
How did it go?
@toshalazarus7 жыл бұрын
HowTos & Reviews guess it went ok.! no reply back!
@sushimamba42815 жыл бұрын
@@toshalazarus Maybe he died during the image transfer process, it was so stressful!
@burandone145 жыл бұрын
Sushi Mamba LOL
@nomorebushz4 жыл бұрын
He accidentally deleted himself into the trash?
@CurtisWaltermire6 жыл бұрын
A word to the wise here--DO NOT DO THIS IF YOU ARE USING TIME MACHINE BACKUP FOR YOUR MAC ON THE SAME EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE. I recently had to buy an new external hard drive and found out that there's something about using Time Machine Backup on the same external drive as Photos Library that corrupts the disk. What made this worse is that this very warning is mentioned in the information that comes with a new MacBook Pro. I don't know if this has ever been fixed, but last I knew this was still something to avoid.
@queens.79166 жыл бұрын
Curtis The Mentalist this just happened to me. All my photos are now gone. They are nowhere to be found.
@CurtisWaltermire6 жыл бұрын
So sorry to hear. It's so frustrating and the downside to using these "how-to" videos. Have you tried contacting customer service for the drive that you were using? There may be a way to retrieve the photos even though the drive is no longer usable.
@kulsumachowdhury41605 жыл бұрын
Will this still happen if you partition your hard drive such as like on 'WD my passport' ?
@CurtisWaltermire5 жыл бұрын
Kulsuma Chowdhury Yes, it did for me. I had it divided into four partitions and it still corrupted the entire drive. Mind you, it didn’t do it immediately but over a short period of time. Errors began to occur then one day it was unable to read the drive at all.
@kulsumachowdhury41605 жыл бұрын
Curtis The Mentalist thanks for the quick reponse ... I just started partitioning the hard drive. I'm still confused about how to relocate storage to the hard drive, I currently can't edit any videos or sync photos. Maybe the best thing to do would be to get 2 seperate hard drives?
@santiagoparedesco.9633 жыл бұрын
Finally, someone who explains in the easy way, thanks
@bonnielougheed76953 жыл бұрын
thank you for this. I've been trying to figure out how to do this for a while and it's so simple. Thank you. Thank you
@JoshuaSalajan7 жыл бұрын
I followed step by step but when I try to launch the photos app that I just uploaded to my external hard drive to view my photos it says "The library could not be opened- Photos has attempted to repair the library "Photos library", but is unable to open it" but when I press "get info" on the Photos app that I uploaded it says it has (84.24 GB on disk)
@randystaino86367 жыл бұрын
i have the same problem did you get and answer?
@ritavizer78727 жыл бұрын
I also have this problem.
@lieke36017 жыл бұрын
I have the same problem, can anybody help us?
@rodesdick44977 жыл бұрын
the answer is at @ 3:15
@anastasia94817 жыл бұрын
I had the same problem and just figured it out! Right click on to your hard drive and chose ''get info'' and then check the format. If you're using a Mac then is has to say ''Mac OS extended (journaled)''. If it doesn't, then that means you need to reformat your hard disk, it's very easy and fast to do. Google reformat for your specific hard disk and you should find the steps. (warning, when you reformat, everything on your hard disk will be erased)
@RobertHarrison5 жыл бұрын
Not working for me. Photos Library wont move to my external hard drive. Just gives a grey X
@eden96884 жыл бұрын
EXACTLY THE SAME PROBLEM!
@marchallaert73725 жыл бұрын
Great tutorial, thank you it was exactly what I was looking for and needed. 😀
@jacobmatton75884 жыл бұрын
Way easier than I thought it would be :)! Thank you so much for this!
@mglyants4 жыл бұрын
"This library contains items that need to download from iCloud Photo Library." Delete incomplete ??????
@kassandramichener93974 жыл бұрын
What do u do to get these items downloaded
@aedofamily36744 жыл бұрын
wHy DoEs EvErYtHiNg HaVe To Be So LoNg WiNdEd WiTh ApPlE tHoUgH?! gRr.
@zedrickcosmo2 жыл бұрын
Thank you! You made this incredibly easy and frustration-free!
@Bzy4boys5 жыл бұрын
Thank you so very much for this great tutorial; I'm certainly not computer savy. I appreciate you very much!
@renaldoracing6 жыл бұрын
All this drama to send photos my God I hate mac
@Laura-wj2nb6 жыл бұрын
Me too! Give ...right click, copy, paste......or 'send to'. Any day over this very cumbersome device!
@wwosiris6 жыл бұрын
renaldoracing renaldo 😂😂😂
@rossmennie49036 жыл бұрын
renaldoracing renaldo Good point.
@theeisaalitube13676 жыл бұрын
exactly! well said mate
@matttang19075 жыл бұрын
Its actually very simple.. all he did was copy the iphoto's database to an external hard drive. So all he did was copy 1 single file
@thephoenixrisingfoundation97624 жыл бұрын
This was wonderful! Thank you so much. I had 15,000 photos on my Mac. Bought a new Mac and then it transferred - UGH! I use a Seagate and Porche external hard drive. You made this so simple! Thank you, Thank you, Thank you! xx
@CB-fg7zy4 жыл бұрын
How is your experience now after some time? the apple guy told me not to export fotos on an external drive ... hm! Would love to know what s your experience. thx
@ReynaDay2 жыл бұрын
Thank you SOOOOOOO MUCH ... This was the EASIEST way to figure out something that I spent hours trying to figure out from long numerous tutorial videos... THANK YOU AGAIN!!! MAY GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR LOVED ONES!!! :) ~Reyna Day~
@gr8ride4113 жыл бұрын
Very helpful, and easy to understand.👍🏽 Thank you!!!
@wooshinwev43294 жыл бұрын
thank you so much! I've been needing to keep my photos on another harddrive for a while since I'm taking my laptop to be fixed and I don't wanna lose them (don't really care about the other data lolol). You really saved me