Mac Photo Library Reduce Size

2020-3-31 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 Library and use Optimise Mac Storage, or move your photo library to an external drive. Before you start, make sure that you back up your library. What to do when iPhoto and Photos take up too much storage space on a Mac On the same drive, macOS and Photos conserves space. When you copy the library, it expands.

When you sign up for iCloud, you automatically get 5GB of free storage for your iOS backups, photos, videos, documents, and apps. When you turn on iCloud Photos, the Photos app lets you know if you need more space to upload your library.

2016-3-4 I'm sorry if there's a thread already going on this but I'm trying to understand the difference between the iPhoto library and the photos library. I just bought an external hard drive and I want to back up my pictures but I don't know which of these libraries I should back up or if I should back up both of them? Can you help here?

You can increase your iCloud storage by choosing a new monthly plan or by trying one of the options below. Plans start at 50GB for $0.99 (USD) a month and go up to 2TB for $9.99 a month.

Reduce the size of your Photos library

You can reduce the size of your Photos library by exporting photos and videos you don't want or need.

Select the items in Photos. Choose File > Export, and follow the instructions.
Delete the exported items. In the Photos sidebar, click Recently Deleted. Then click Delete All to permanently delete the items from your library and reduce its size.

Start a new photo library

You can create a new Photos library to use with iCloud Photos. Remember to designate this library as the System Photo Library.

Hold down the Option key while opening Photos.
Choose Create New.
Import content from your previous library to create a new, smaller library.

Split your library with Aperture

If you use Aperture, you can split your library to create a smaller library to open in the Photos app and use with iCloud Photos.

Open your photo library in Aperture.
Select the content you'd like to export as a new library.
Choose File > Export > Items as New Library.

Find itunes library on mac. After the export is complete, you can migrate this new Aperture library to Photos and turn on iCloud Photos.

Check the size of your Photos Library

Open Photos and choose Photos > Preferences > General. Click the Show in Finder button to go to your Photos Library. After Finder opens, select your Photos Library, then choose File > Get Info. Look under General to find the size.

The size of your Photos Library on your Mac will usually be slightly larger than the amount of space that you need to store your photos and videos in iCloud.*

See how much iCloud storage you're using

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Choose Apple menu > System Preferences. Then select iCloud to view your total and available storage.

Add the size of your Photos Library to the amount of iCloud storage you're using

To store your current iCloud content and your Photos Library, you need an iCloud storage plan with enough space for both.

When you sign up for iCloud, you automatically get 5GB of free storage. If you use all of your iCloud storage, you can buy more starting at 50GB for $0.99 a month. Learn more about prices in your country or region.

You can also reduce the size of your Photos Library.

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*There are several reasons the size of your Mac Photos Library might be larger than the amount of space that you need to store your photos and videos:

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Your Photos Library might contain photos or videos that have already been added to iCloud Photos from another device.
Part of your Photos Library size includes small system files. These files aren't uploaded when you turn on iCloud Photos.
Your Mac and iCloud count the size of a GB differently. Your Mac displays storage representation in decimal, base 10 where 1 GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes. iCloud storage tiers are counted in binary, base 2 where 1 GB = 1, 073,741,824 bytes.