Your Photos library holds all your photos, albums, slideshows, and print projects. If your library is large, and you want to free up storage space on your Mac, turn on iCloud Photo Library and use Optimize Mac Storage, or move your library to an external drive.

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May 10, 2019  What Happens When You Disable iCloud Photos. Apple provides two ways to turn off iCloud Photos. First, you can do it for a single device — the one that you are using (photos stored in iCloud. Feb 13, 2019  Luckily, if you use Apple's iCloud Photo Library service, you can access every image or video you've ever uploaded or taken straight from a web browser. You can even organize and arrange photos in great detail: All you need is a connection, your Apple ID, and iCloud.com! How to access and view photos in iCloud Photo Library on the web. Jan 31, 2017  Question: Q: Photo Library - iCloud duplicates how to remove All, anyone know anything about OSX/IOS 'Photos' app ability to detect and remove duplicate photo9? My 'Photos' library has 63,299 photos & 2135 videos as of May 2016 and at least 10,000 + of these photos are duplicates (based on a scan by Photosweeper). Oct 18, 2019  If you want to delete photos and videos, you can remove them in the Photos app on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Mac, and on iCloud.com. When you delete photos and videos from your Apple device or on iCloud.com, they won't delete from your PC. And when you delete a photo or video on your PC, they won't delete in iCloud Photos.

• After that, your iCloud Photo Library should be cleared/wiped out. Note: If for some reason you turn the 'iCloud Photo Library (Beta)' option back on in iOS, and the old/deleted photos are still there, just delete them off of the device/s first, then repeat the steps I mentioned above.
• On your Mac, go to System Preferences iCloud Options next to Photos Deselect iCloud Photo Library This will stop photos from syncing to your Mac. As you've seen, do not select Disable and Delete from this same menu as it will delete your photos from every device.
• Mar 03, 2020  On your Mac, go to System Preferences Apple ID. Click iCloud in the sidebar, then select Photos. If you have an earlier version of macOS, go to System Preferences iCloud. Click Options next to Photos, then select iCloud Photos. On Apple TV 4K and Apple TV HD, go to Settings Users and Accounts iCloud. Then turn on iCloud Photos.

Before you start, be sure to back up your library.

Prepare your drive

You can store your library on an external storage device, such as a USB or Thunderbolt drive formatted as APFS or Mac OS Extended (Journaled).¹ Find out how to check the format of your external storage device.

To prevent data loss, Apple doesn't recommend storing photo libraries on external storage devices like SD cards and USB flash drives, or drives that are shared on a network.

Move your Photos library to an external storage device

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1. Quit Photos.
2. In the Finder, go to the external drive where you want to store your library.
3. In another Finder window, find your library. The default location is Users > [username] > Pictures, and it's named Photos Library.
4. Drag your library to its new location on the external drive. If you see an error, select your external drive's icon in the Finder, then choose File > Get Info. If the information under Sharing & Permissions isn't visible, click , then make sure the 'Ignore ownership on this volume' checkbox is selected. If it's not selected, click to unlock it, enter an administrator name and password, then select the checkbox.²
   
   
5. After the move is finished, double-click Photos Library in its new location to open it.
6. If you use iCloud Photo Library, designate this library as the System Photo Library.

Delete original library to save space

After you open your library from its new location and make sure that it works as expected, you can delete the library from its original location.

In a Finder window, go back to your Pictures folder (or whichever folder you copied your library from) and move Photos Library to the trash. Then choose Finder > Empty Trash to delete the library and reclaim disk space.

Open another Photos library

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If you have multiple libraries, here's how to open a different one:

1. Quit Photos.
2. Press and hold the Option key while you open Photos.
3. Select the library that you want to open, then click Choose Library.

Photos uses this library until you open a different one.

Learn more

If you have a permissions issue with your library, you might be able to resolve the issue by using the Photos library repair tool.

Delete Photos From Photos Mac

1. You can't move your library to a disk that's used for Time Machine backups.

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2. If the volume isn't formatted APFS or Mac OS Extended (Journaled), or has been used for Time Machine backups but hasn't been erased, this checkbox will either not be present, or won't be selectable after unlocking. Mac photos library repair stuck. Erase and reformat the drive for this option to be available.