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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1917780" data-attributes="member: 396914">Just to be clear, read what I posted in post #7. You go to iCloud.com, log in, open Photos, select the images you want and then click the cloud icon with the down arrow. Photos will create the zip file with the images for you and offer to you to download it. You don't download into a zip file, you download a zip file. To select all of the images, if that is what you want, you can click on the first one, then scroll to the last one and hold SHIFT and click on the last image and all of them between will be selected.Yes, you could theoretically email the zip file, but it will be huge. You mentioned 10,000 images. If the average size is 2Mb, the 10,000 of them will be 20 GB. Images don't compress much when zipped, so as I said, you'll need a really big USB thumb drive. Or, you can break the download into pieces over multiple trips to the cafe, or over multiple USB sticks. Just select fewer of the images at a time for the download. Bottom line: It's a lot of data.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1917780, member: 396914"] Just to be clear, read what I posted in post #7. You go to iCloud.com, log in, open Photos, select the images you want and then click the cloud icon with the down arrow. Photos will create the zip file with the images for you and offer to you to download it. You don't download [I][B]into[/B][/I] a zip file, you download a zip file. To select all of the images, if that is what you want, you can click on the first one, then scroll to the last one and hold SHIFT and click on the last image and all of them between will be selected. Yes, you could theoretically email the zip file, but it will be huge. You mentioned 10,000 images. If the average size is 2Mb, the 10,000 of them will be 20 GB. Images don't compress much when zipped, so as I said, you'll need a really big USB thumb drive. Or, you can break the download into pieces over multiple trips to the cafe, or over multiple USB sticks. Just select fewer of the images at a time for the download. Bottom line: It's a [I][B]lot[/B][/I] of data. [/QUOTE]

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