Hi Peter, You might find this handy to check you did everything correctly when originally transferring the Photos Library to the external and setting as System Photo Library.
https://www.imore.com/how-use-photos-mac-external-hard-drive?utm_source=im&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=social_share&utm_content= Regards, Ronni Ronni Brown’s iPad Pro 12.9-inch 256GB > On 6 Jan 2019, at 1:53 pm, Peter Crisp <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks Ronni, the external drive is formatted as Mac OS Extend journaled and > used exclusively for the Photos library and nothing else currently. The Time > Machine Backup of Joanne’s MBP (with External drive included in the backup) > is wirelessly to the Time Capsule onboard 3TB internal drive. > > In contrast as well, my own MBP which has my Photos library also stored on my > own external drive, does not have this weird behaviour. > > It’s not a big deal to force it via Option key but just curious about how I > might correct this > > I’ll have a read of the link soon. Thanks for comments. > > Regards > > > Pete > >> On 6 Jan 2019, at 1:40 pm, Ronni Brown <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Peter, >> >> I’m not sure what has happened here. >> The System Photo Library is the only library that can be used with iCloud >> Photo Library, iCloud Photo Sharing, and My Photo Stream. >> >> Photos may have problems to remember the location of your system Photo >> Library, if it is on a drive with an incompatible file system or if the >> drive has been used with Time Machine. >> >> “If a Photos library is located on an external drive, don’t use Time Machine >> to store a backup on that external drive. The permissions for your Photos >> library may conflict with those for the Time Machine backup.” >> >> After moving your photo library to another location such as an external >> storage device, making it your new System Photo Library lets you continue >> using iCloud Photo Library and other iCloud services with photos in that >> library. >> >> Keep in mind that in order to use iCloud Photo Library, iCloud Photo Sharing >> and My Photo Stream, the external storage device must be formatted using Mac >> OS Extended (Journaled) format, also known as HFS+. >> >> Apple on its parts warns that enabling iCloud Photo Library after >> designating a new System Photo Library will merge the photos stored in >> iCloud with those in the new System Photo Library. >> >> https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT204414 >> >> Regards, >> >> Ronni >> >> Ronni Brown’s iPad Pro 12.9-inch 256GB >> >> >>> On 6 Jan 2019, at 12:02 pm, Peter Crisp <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Mac users. A few months back I did a change from HDD to SSD for my >>> wife’s Macbook with a RAM upgrade at the same time. That has been very >>> successful like a number of other previous occasions for other family >>> members. There is one annoying thing that has started since then relating >>> to how the Photos library gets called up when opening Photos. The Photos >>> library is on an external drive. I have gone through the process of using >>> Option when opening, directing it to the externally located Photos library, >>> then in Prefs, making sure it is selected as the System library. >>> >>> Now though, if I open Photos (without holding Option key), the Mac thinks I >>> am a first time user and brings me to the ‘Get Started’ screen. If I >>> proceed, it opens Photos and eventually locates the Photos library (on the >>> external) but this leaves Photos in a state where the iCloud Shared albums >>> are not seen. In this arrangement upon checking Prefs, it seems to infer >>> the Photos library on the external drive is the System library. >>> >>> If I close and then reopen Photos holding Option key, I can force it to >>> open the Photos library on the external drive, BUT the Shared folders now >>> do present themselves and all sharing functions that normally work all do >>> in fact work. It also indicates that the selected Photos library (ext >>> drive) is the System library. >>> >>> Next time I open Photos (no Option key), it reverts to the First User >>> state. Is there a stored file (plist or some other) that I can blow away to >>> restore this to the correct System library for every time? It’s fine for me >>> to workaround this but my wife doesn’t want to have to do this as a >>> constant workaround. >>> >>> Regards >>> >>> >>> Pete >>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>> Settings & Unsubscribe - >>> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>
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