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Does powerphotos keep metadata1/13/2024 ![]() ![]() iCloud Photo Library then downloads all my new photos to the library on the external drive. Now, every Friday night I sign in to my alternative user account, connect my external drive and open the photos app. I then dragged that library to an external drive and set it to “download originals”. So I created a second user account on my Mac, signed into my same iCloud account (I only turned on iCloud photos, not iCloud Drive or anything else) and created a new photos “system library” for that user. The solution is user accounts - each user account gets its “system library”. You CAN have your cake (optimized internal library) and eat it too (physical backuo of all photos). ![]() ICloud will only sync to one “system library” Thus, you cannot create one external library set to “download originals” AND one internal library set to “optimize storage”. A common workaround is to simply drag the photo library to an larger external drive, however, I want to retain the ability to view my photo library on the “optimize storage” setting when my MacBook is not connected to the external drive (traveling, etc…).Īlthough you can create multiple photo libraries, iCloud Photo Library will only sync to one - the one set as your “system library”. My MacBook has a 256GB SSD which is not large enough to hold my entire library using the “download originals” setting. Perhaps this post can help someone.įor a long time I have been searching for a way to physically backuo my iCloud Photo Library. Maybe this is a well known solution or maybe no one else has this problem but I have not found this solution anywhere online despite much googling for answers. I thought I’d share my solution to a photo management issue that I have been struggling with for a long time.
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