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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1941197" data-attributes="member: 396914">Poppi, if you open Photos, the application, and then click on the Photos name in the top bar, then on Settings, or Preferences, on the General tab will be a location and name of the library that the application is using. Here is what my setting shows:[ATTACH=full]39289[/ATTACH]I blanked out my account name.In yours if you are using that external drive library, it should show the path to that location and the filename of your library. When the new Mac arrives and you want to store that libarary on the internal storage, all you need to do is to copy from the EHD to your own account in whatever folder you want to put it (I used &quot;Pictures&quot; as you can see.) and then start Photos, go to settings and set the location and filename to that location and file and Photos will open the library, do any conversion/update needed and use that library until you change the setting. All of your edits and metadata will be preserved. To change the location you click on the &quot;Location&quot; line and navigate to the library and then click on &quot;Use as System Photo Library&quot; and it will be the default from then on.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1941197, member: 396914"] Poppi, if you open Photos, the application, and then click on the Photos name in the top bar, then on Settings, or Preferences, on the General tab will be a location and name of the library that the application is using. Here is what my setting shows: [ATTACH type="full"]39289[/ATTACH] I blanked out my account name. In yours if you are using that external drive library, it should show the path to that location and the filename of your library. When the new Mac arrives and you want to store that libarary on the internal storage, all you need to do is to copy from the EHD to your own account in whatever folder you want to put it (I used "Pictures" as you can see.) and then start Photos, go to settings and set the location and filename to that location and file and Photos will open the library, do any conversion/update needed and use that library until you change the setting. All of your edits and metadata will be preserved. To change the location you click on the "Location" line and navigate to the library and then click on "Use as System Photo Library" and it will be the default from then on. [/QUOTE]

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