I recently got an external hard drive. To save my Mac space and make it run faster, I want to move all my photos to external hard drive. It takes up almost 200gb of space. How can I move them to spare more space on my Mac.
Photo Library is home to all your photos, albums and slideshows. If you are trying to free up Mac storage, it is wise to transfer all your photos from MacBook to external hard drive. Luckily, this post will show you the latest solution to move photo library from Mac to external hard drive.
Before transferring photos to external hard drive, you need to make sure the disk is formatted for APFS or Mac OS Extended. Otherwise, the disk cannot be recognized, nor the content cannot be modified by Mac.
If your Mac is running slow or out of storage, you may need to move the large photos to external hard drive. But there is another quick way to get more spare space on your Mac. What you need to do is to clear your Mac with Aiseesoft Mac Cleaner. It is a professional Mac management tool to remove junk files, clutter, duplicate photos, shred files and maintain Mac performance.
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If you have synced photos to iCloud, you can download the original images from iCloud Photo Library on Mac. Follow the simple steps below.
If you accidentally lost photos from external hard drive, you can still get them back. This may happen when you format an external hard drive. Don't worry. With the advantageous Aiseesoft Mac Data Recovery, you can get all the deleted or lost data back, including photos, documents, emails, videos, audio and more.
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If you cannot find the photos you want to recover, you can click "Deep Scan" to scan more photos thoroughly and completely.
Conclusion
It seems easy to move photos from Mac to external hard drive with the method above. If you want to free up more space on your Mac, it is wise to choose Mac Cleaner to get the useless apps, duplicate photos, shred files away from your Mac. If you accidentally lost data due to hard drive formation, you can try Mac Data Recovery to get all your photos back.
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