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<blockquote data-quote="hempomatic" data-source="post: 1932492" data-attributes="member: 335450">Thanks Ian. I believe that's exactly what I did. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤷" title="Person shrugging&nbsp; &nbsp; :person_shrugging:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.5/png/unicode/64/1f937.png" data-shortname=":person_shrugging:" />&quot;To save storage space on your Mac, you can move your Photos library to a different storage device&quot;.Make sure your external storage device, such as a USB drive or Thunderbolt drive, is <a href="https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/disk-utility/erase-and-reformat-a-storage-device-dskutl14079/mac" target="_blank">formatted for Mac</a>: either APFS format or Mac OS Extended (Journalled) format. And to avoid possible data loss, don't store your library on a removable storage device such as an SD card or USB flash drive, or on a device shared over your network&quot; I have a laptop and remote SSD.&nbsp; That seems a bit contradictory. I'm going to reformat the SSD and try again being careful to go step by step.&nbsp; I hoped this would work based on having two completely separate Photos Libraries already that work fine switching back and forth between them, editing or deleting files, simply a function of which Library I click on.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="hempomatic, post: 1932492, member: 335450"] Thanks Ian. I [I]believe[/I] that's exactly what I did. 🤷 "To save storage space on your Mac, you can move your Photos library to a different storage device". Make sure your external storage device, such as a USB drive or Thunderbolt drive, is [URL='https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/disk-utility/erase-and-reformat-a-storage-device-dskutl14079/mac']formatted for Mac[/URL]: either APFS format or Mac OS Extended (Journalled) format. And to avoid possible data loss, don't store your library on a removable storage device such as an SD card or USB flash drive, or on a device shared over your network" I have a laptop and remote SSD. That seems a bit contradictory. I'm going to reformat the SSD and try again being careful to go step by step. I hoped this would work based on having two completely separate Photos Libraries already that work fine switching back and forth between them, editing or deleting files, simply a function of which Library I click on. [/QUOTE]

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