Export Images from Mac Photos

[pine man]

I would like to copy/download/export all of my images, in their albums, from Mac Photos on my iMac into an ext HD.

I want that ext HD to be capable of displaying those images on other devices such as PCs and TVs as well as on Macs. I'm sure I have done it before and I've got an old ext HD formatted ExFAT with, what appears to be, an old import from Photos with all of the pictures in their own albums but I'm blowed if I can remember how I did it!

Any ideas?

 

[MacInWin]

Well, one way is to open Photos, open an album, Select ALL of the images and then click "File/Export" and export them. Repeat for the next album. Put each album in a separate folder on the destination.

I don't think it can be done all at once for all albums.

 

[IWT]

Hi Peter

Nice to see you again.

Moving your entire Photos Library to an EHD is straightforward:

Move your Photos library to save space on your Mac – Apple Support (UK)

To save storage space on your Mac, you can move your Photos library to a different storage device.

support.apple.com

Export photos, videos, slideshows and memories in Photos on Mac

In Photos on your Mac, export photos, videos, slideshows and memories so you can import them into another app to view and work with them.

support.apple.com

But is that enough for your needs? What I mean is that you want to view the total contents on various devices. I think that should work - certainly for another Mac, but I'm not certain about PCs and your TV.

EDIT: Just read Jake's post which he was typing as I prepared mine. Jake's method might get round the problem of not having an app to read & display the library contents??

Ian

 

[pine man]

Hi Both

I've got about 8000 photos in about 80+ albums and I was pretty sure I didn't have to fiddle around with them after the export BUT I have been fiddling since I posted the issue and here's what I came up with.

I formatted the ext HD ExFat. Then I went to Photos and selected 'My Albums', which listed all of the 80+ albums contained within it, Next I selected File/Export/Export Folder in Photos and, in the pop-up window under 'File Naming', I selected 'Use Title' for the File Name and "None' for the Sub Folder Format. I hit export and selected the Ext HD in Finder and let it rip! The ext HD now contains a list of all the Named albums each containing all of it's images. It takes quite a long time but seems to have worked fine.

Thanks to both of you for replying and now I must keep these instructions somewhere so I will know how to do it next time - if I can remember where I put them!

 

[MacInWin]

Thanks for posting back. I learned something today!

 

[IWT]

Thanks for posting back. I learned something today!

Me too!

Ian