I spent a very long time going through a library the tenth of that size and
reduced it by 10% - in other words not worth the bother. You definitely need a
back up of that drive though!
I’d split it - start again one day. You can load different libraries (not
simultaneously though).
And/or put it on an SSD for speed.
You could shrink the videos with handbrake individually (to H265) to get it
under 1tb just to back it up more easily but like I said, fiddly and a lot of
work.
Thanks,
-Jason
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On 27 May 2020 at 09:43:20 BST, Benjamin Phillips <[email protected]>
wrote:
Hello all,
Looking for some advice on managing large photos libraries.
Over the last 13+ years my photos library has slowly grown and now contains
86000 photos and 6500 videos. Of course over time the photos on my cameras
have increased in megapixel count and since updating my GoPro there are
more and more 4k resolution videos. My library now sits at 1.23TB and is
starting to feel inefficient. On the occasions where it needs to update the
library because the photos app has been updated or if the file is perceived
to be corrupted and needs to be restored this process can take a few days
and nights.
The photos library is sitting on an external mechanical drive (internal
drive not big enough) and the library is populated with a range of metadata
including photo locations, facial recognition fully utilised and all photos
organised into albums based on the event or celebration. It's this added
metadata held by photos which I value as much as the photos and videos
themselves. I do not use iCloud photo syncing.
I enjoy the convenience of all photos being in the one location. However, I
am wondering if I should split the library into smaller versions. Perhaps
one library for pre-2010, another for 2010-2020 and then a new library for
the photos I have taken this year and in the future. I would hope this
would make the library quicker to load and fix if things go wrong but in
doing so is there functionality I am going to miss or downsides that should
be a serious consideration.
Any views from fellow Mac users on how to manage large photos libraries
would be greatly appreciated.
Ben.
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