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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.
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.
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.
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 UA-cam instruction for making the move. THIS ISVERY CLEAR, PRECISE AND EASY TO FOLLOW. THANK YOU.
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 !
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
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!
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!
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.
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!
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. :)
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.
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!!
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 UA-cam 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!!!
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!!!
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!!
Found this in 2022 - Macbook still works perfectly on OS HIghSierra and the hard drive just a bit full. Thank you so much for this video, it is going to make my life a lot easier!!
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.
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~
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! :)
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.
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!
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.
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.
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!
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!
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.
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!
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
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.
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!
Wow I never thought it would be this easy. Thank you so much it was so helpful. I was so nervous I might make a mistake n delete all my photos Thank you for blessing me with you knowledge now I have more space on my computer n it works faster.
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).
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.
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!!
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.
If you buy a new HD, be sure to check that it is not formated ExFat - format it correctly and then save the trash can file until you are sure the copy on the HD works with photos. Very helpful video!
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?
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.
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.
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.
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?
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...
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!
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 )
@@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.
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!
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?
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).
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 > 🚫
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?!?!?
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
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)
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)
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 :-)
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?
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.
New to transferring photos and important info to EXT WD HD. Your video made it super easy to transfer my photos from iphotos which was taking up most of my HD space! Am needing the HD for research storage so thankful for your help!
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
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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.
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
Are there any other ones you would suggest?
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.
G Technology are the best external hard drives for Mac, preferably get one with it's own power source.
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.
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
Have you synced up your new photos onto your computer/external hard drive since doing this?
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.
So glad it was helpful to you. Thanks for writing and best wishes!
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 UA-cam instruction for making the move. THIS ISVERY CLEAR, PRECISE AND EASY TO FOLLOW. THANK YOU.
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 !
You are like the Bob Ross of technology instructions, calming, helpful and I was able to do it step by step. Thank you!
Honestly, this was an extremely well put together video that was perfect explained. I am very impressed. Good job.
I have watched different U-tube videos about this issue and I must say that this video is the best ! very informative and simple !
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
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!
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!
I freed up146 gigs. The procedure was well articulated and yes, it was a blessing. Thanks.
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.
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!
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. :)
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.
Super appreciative, very easy to do and tons of other videos but none to tell me how to free up the space. You are awesome and thank you so much
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!!
Hey, so glad the video was helpful to you! Thanks for writing and sharing your experience. Best wishes!
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Thanks really appreciate your Video. Good JoB.👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻
Very helpful.-PinaY Here.🤗
Finally, someone who explains in the easy way, thanks
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 UA-cam 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!!!
Excellent, clear, accurate explanation and guide, one of the best!!!
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!!!
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!!
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!
Found this in 2022 - Macbook still works perfectly on OS HIghSierra and the hard drive just a bit full. Thank you so much for this video, it is going to make my life a lot easier!!
this is truly amazing, very clear and detailed for a noob like me to follow along, thank you so much!!!
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.
This really helps me rn, I was trying to edit videos but I couldn’t bec I dont have enough space. Thanks to you! 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼
Excellent. Good work. Understandable and concise. Thank you.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!! This helped me free up 75 GB of my internal storage!!!!
I'm so glad it helped. Best wishes!
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~
Great tutorial. Very easy to follow and understand. Thank you so much!
You are such a very good teacher! Thank you for this video!
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! :)
Dragon hello! Can you please elaborate how you transfered your files from you phone to the external?
I lost every single picture i had because i followed your instructions perfectly. Thanks.
I'm terribly sorry to hear this. Around minute 5 I walk you through how to verify that your new library works...before deleting your old library.
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.
Happy to help. Glad you were able to make a success of it!
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!
I’ve been struggling the last 3 days trying to transfer my photos. Thank you so much for the help! It worked perfectly
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.
You have great voice and anyone can tell you are patient. Love this easy explanation!
Why does everything have to be so long winded with apple though?! Grr.
Jeremy Eden *whEeZe*
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.
I hate Apple
@WakinTheDeadFan me too I truly regret buying mine it just gives me anger issues
OMG, that was so hard to watch.
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!
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!
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.
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!
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
Wow...thanks. This was easy to follow and understand. It was a life saver.
omg this is so so so so helpful! thank you!
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.
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!
Wow I never thought it would be this easy. Thank you so much it was so helpful. I was so nervous I might make a mistake n delete all my photos Thank you for blessing me with you knowledge now I have more space on my computer n it works faster.
thank you very much! very well explained 100% helpful.
So glad the tutorial was helpful to you! Thanks for the feedback!
HowTos & Reviews I FOLLOWED EVERYTHING YOU SAID , but something came out and says: NO REFERENCED FILES TO CONSOLIDATE. What that means ? Thank you.
That happened to me too ...
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).
Yes indeed! This video is a few years old but REALLY helped me!
Wow, your video is the only one that was clear and helpful. Thank you!
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?
BicMacAndChips1 this is my big question 😭
I'm really grateful for this information. Over 50% of my HD space is taken up with photos.
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.
Thank you soo much for posting this. I had no idea how to do this! This was a very valuable video. God Bless You!!!
Thx Clear and easy :)
You're very welcome. Thanks for the feedback!
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!!
Why is so freaking difficult for Mac users, holy shit. Windows: drag, drop, and done.
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.
If you buy a new HD, be sure to check that it is not formated ExFat - format it correctly and then save the trash can file until you are sure the copy on the HD works with photos. Very helpful video!
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?
Priyam Verma I have the same question!!!
waiting for an answer for this too
GREAT video. Great explanation. Just what I needed. I guess 3 yrs later, not much changes!
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.
Curtis The Mentalist this just happened to me. All my photos are now gone. They are nowhere to be found.
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.
Will this still happen if you partition your hard drive such as like on 'WD my passport' ?
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.
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?
Thank you. You've saved a family years worth of memories and baby photos.
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?
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...
Man it's 2021 and your video still helped me a lot! Thanks!
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!
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 )
My problem is that it tells me the photos are in iCloud and I have to delete everything on iCloud
@@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.
wonderful. one of the best instructor ever found. thank you so much your time and help
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!
How did it go?
HowTos & Reviews guess it went ok.! no reply back!
@@toshalazarus Maybe he died during the image transfer process, it was so stressful!
Sushi Mamba LOL
He accidentally deleted himself into the trash?
Thanks so much! You did a great job explaining this with a slow and easy step-by-step process. I found this incredibly helpful!
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?
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).
This happened to me and all I had to do was register my hard drive. Missed the very first step!
Thanks for your simple video. Getting straight to the point. I have saved so much space. Appreciate that .
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 > 🚫
I had the same problem, watch this video it will help you fix your external hard drive ua-cam.com/video/sqTgYSPthDM/v-deo.html
It’s not formatted to Mac, I had the same problem until I got a Mac specific hard drive
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
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?!?!?
same problem here
did you ever figure it out? the same happens to me
KK nooo😅😫😫
Yes me too, did you find out what to do please I don’t know what should I do
@@wewea1781 I have the same problem, did you fix it?
So my 56000 photos are transferring right now. Easily understandable tutorial. I’m grateful. Thanks
Once the Photos library is on my hard drive, can I open the files in another laptop, for example in Windows?
No
The hdd is a hfs+ mac format
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
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)
i have the same problem did you get and answer?
I also have this problem.
I have the same problem, can anybody help us?
the answer is at @ 3:15
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)
Thank you very much! Excellent instructions that enabled me to free up tons of space. 30K photos using all my space.
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 :-)
Yes, this does happen at times (slow transfer to trash). Correct me if I'm wrong, but everything worked out in the end, right?
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?
Its a whole lot of Nudes!
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.
well mine says 2 days x.x
Thank you so much, worked out great!!! 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
Not working for me. Photos Library wont move to my external hard drive. Just gives a grey X
EXACTLY THE SAME PROBLEM!
Thank you. This was the most helpful video on the topic. You did a great job!!
"This library contains items that need to download from iCloud Photo Library." Delete incomplete ??????
What do u do to get these items downloaded
Perfect step by step instructions. I appreciate it.
wHy DoEs EvErYtHiNg HaVe To Be So LoNg WiNdEd WiTh ApPlE tHoUgH?! gRr.
Great video just what i needed to know thanks a mil
New to transferring photos and important info to EXT WD HD. Your video made it super easy to transfer my photos from iphotos which was taking up most of my HD space! Am needing the HD for research storage so thankful for your help!
Thanks for the clear & easy to follow instructions!
You are a saint and deserve the bounty of the universe! Thank you so much
Really good little video which guided me through how to safely transfer my photo library onto an external drive. Many thanks!
Good explanation! so glad I managed to free up all that space. THANK YOU!
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
Thank you! I'm a new to Apple computers but have owned mine for about two years. I couldn't figure out how to make space so this is helpful.
Blessings, of course. Thanks a ton, bro. Appreciate the time you spent describing the procedure. I saved several GBs from my SSD.
Cheers.
Thanks a bazillion! Used it just now (in 2020 on Big Sur) - and saved me almost 30Gb off Macintosh HD.
Wow I’ve been searching for a video for months where was this the whole time... so helpful!
Thank you for the very clear and simple explanations!
Thank you!!! watched a thousand videos and no one explained it like you did. 🙏🏼❤️
By far the easiest !!!!! Thank you so much.