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Put JPGs into 'Photos' or leave them on the HD?
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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1842693" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>You can decide where the Photos database is by opening Photos Preferences and on the General tab see where the db is now. Use Finder to go there and copy the database to where you want it to be (External drives are nice, if you are willing to carry the drive with you all the time.) Now restart Photos, but hold down the Option key as it starts, then change the database location to the new place. Now Photos will put all images into that new location. Once you know it's working, you can then delete the original, retrieving your internal drive space. As always, backup before making drastic changes like that, just in case.</p><p></p><p>One other advantage of having the images in Photos is that Photos can sync from all devices that share an AppleID and sufficient iCloud storage, so if you want all of the images synced, storing in Photos database is the way to go.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1842693, member: 396914"] You can decide where the Photos database is by opening Photos Preferences and on the General tab see where the db is now. Use Finder to go there and copy the database to where you want it to be (External drives are nice, if you are willing to carry the drive with you all the time.) Now restart Photos, but hold down the Option key as it starts, then change the database location to the new place. Now Photos will put all images into that new location. Once you know it's working, you can then delete the original, retrieving your internal drive space. As always, backup before making drastic changes like that, just in case. One other advantage of having the images in Photos is that Photos can sync from all devices that share an AppleID and sufficient iCloud storage, so if you want all of the images synced, storing in Photos database is the way to go. [/QUOTE]
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