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1. CAN I IMPORT PHOTOS FROM IPAD TO MAC USING EXTERNAL DRIVE ARCHIVE
2. CAN I IMPORT PHOTOS FROM IPAD TO MAC USING EXTERNAL DRIVE PORTABLE

You could keep a smaller library with only your favorite photos on the internal drive (to be used, when the external drive is not connected) and a full archive library on the external drive. If Photos cannot access the library on the external drive it would show a library chooser panel and ask you which library to use. If I moved everything to a external HD and it wasn't connected and I launched Photos what would happen? Would it create a new library or give me an error message stating that the file directory couldn't be found? You cannot use a NAS with an iCloud Photo Library, because the file system format would be wrong, and the drive needs to be locally mounted.

CAN I IMPORT PHOTOS FROM IPAD TO MAC USING EXTERNAL DRIVE PORTABLE

But you can get tiny portable drives with 3 TB of storage, that are no hardship to carry along with a MacBook Pro and to keep connected. You should be connecting the external drive before launching the Photos.app. What happens if it's not connected to my laptop - does it only synch when connected?

How are you using iCloud? Is your complete library stored in iCloud or only selected shared albums? "iCloud Photo Library" is referring to storing the complete library in iCloud and syncing your devices with this library, "i Cloud Photo sharing" is referring to shared albums in iCloud. These are two different ways to use iCloud. The title says "iCloud Photo Library", but further down you are saying " iCloud Photo sharing". Your question is not quite clear to me, sorry. But the syncing can only happen, when the drive with the library is connected.Īny external drive you want to use with Photos and to sync with iCloud Photo Library need to have the file system format "MacOS Extended (Journaled)". You can keep the Photos Library on an external drive and still sync it with iCloud, yes.