How To Move Photos To External Hard Drive On Mac
39Easy to follow tutorial on moving your Photos library on Mac over to an external hard drive. Want to move your Macs Photos Library to an external HDD or USB? Learn how to move your photos to an external drive on Mac OS!
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Steps:
- Plug in your external hard drive.
- From the home screen of your mac, click ‘finder’ from the top left menu.
- Choose ‘settings’ from the menu that appears.
- Click ‘general’ from the top of the settings.
- Below where it says ‘new finder windows show’ change it to ‘Mac’ or ‘Macintosh HD’.
- Now open a finder window and select your external hard drive from the left sidebar.
- Open another finder window by clicking ‘file’ from the top left menu and then clicking ‘new finder window’.
- Select the ‘users’ folder.
- Then select your user account.
- Choose ‘pictures’.
- You now just need to drag and drop the photos library folder into the other finder window.
- If you have a lot of photos in your library then this may take a long time to send over.
- Your photos library is now on your external hardrive.
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