Thanks for that advice Ronni Severin > On 6 Mar 2019, at 3:48 pm, Ronni Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On 6 Mar 2019, at 7:42 am, Severin Crisp <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> I am needing to save Photos libraries on Dropbox if possible. Dropbox saves >> them as a mess! Is there a way? Zip? > > Hi Severin, > > A Photos Library needs to be on a locally mounted drive. > If you want to save storage on your Mac, move the library to an external USB > drive. > <https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201517 > <https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201517>> > > Keeping the library in Dropbox will damage it sooner or later… > > If you store your Photos library in a location that's part of a cloud service > (for example, Dropbox, Box, or Google Drive), your library might be damaged > by the syncing process. > As a result, you could lose photos. > > To prevent data loss, Apple doesn't recommend storing photo libraries on > external storage devices like SD cards and USB flash drives, or drives that > are shared on a network. > > Cheers, > Ronni > > 13-inch MacBook Air (April 2014) > 1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost to 3.3GHz > 8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM > 512GB PCIe-based Flash Storage > > macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 >> Severin Crisp >> >> Sent from Sev's iPad >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml >> <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml>> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml >> <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml>> >> Settings & Unsubscribe - >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>> > > > > -- 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>
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