I have been using iPhoto / Photos for 15 years or so and have about 200g of photos split into 3 libraries - 1) Work, 2) Personal/family, 3) Hiking - I keep the "work" library on my MBP and the other libraries on an external "media" drive - it is easy to back up the libraries automatically with CCC (Carbon Copy Cloner) using a folder back up script to a second back up drive and also 3rd to my Time Capsule (similar to an NAS) - no issues with any of the libraries wether on the MBP or running the other liraires off the external media driveģ. Why not test a few? drag a few images to the mac and into photos? - this will allow you to see if the meta is there and if the files are not reduced in quality? Also you could consider splitting your Photos into separate libraries / categories and keep the less used libraries on the external drive and one "most used" library on your Mac ?Ģ. Yeah I was pretty upset at the iPhoto to Photos transition but got used to it after a while and like you said it did get better as time went on.ġ. I imagine monitoring the "originals" folder in the package might do the trick. On the filesystem it's really a full blown file structure. It just looks like a single file in the Finder. If I can work out the folder where the images are stored then I can likely create a script that will watch that folder and upload new files to my NAS, You say it's one huge file, but of course it's not really - it's a package. Your point about duplicating the photos for the NAS is spot on, that's why I'm looking for an automated process. I agree, putting it on my local network is a really bad idea, but USB seems like it should be OK? I appreciate an external drive wouldn't be as fast as an internal SSD but I would expect it to be usable. ![]() I'm going to have a chat with him this weekend so will be sure to pin him down on that point. However, I know someone who has his Photo Library on an external drive and he hasn't mentioned any problems. I have 630GB free on my iMac Pro so your point about doing it in stages and then optimising might be a way to keep things local and avoid the need for an external drive. I'm keen to experiment with this and see where I go with it. I have an unused Mac on my network that I could set to fire up and automatically sync Photos down from iCloud (I was thinking of doing this overnight) but then I need something to extract the images from wherever Photos puts them and copy just the high res original to a destination on my NAS for backup purposes.Īny general thoughts much appreciated, even if it's taking a different route to the one I've very roughly outlined above. This is the biggie - How can I maintain a copy of my images on my NAS? I want this to be automatic, if possible. Is using an external USB drive my only option? I realise that there's an "Optimise" option in Apple Photos, but presumably I need at least enough space for my entire library to get it to into Photos initially?ģ. I don't have enough free space on my Mac for my entire library. I was using Image Capture to take photos off my phone so I assume it took the meta data with it? But just thought I'd ask (this isn't a biggie).Ģ. If I turn on Photo Library on my Mac and drag the images from my NAS in the Finder onto the icon in the Dock then what will it do with images if the meta data is missing? Does it use the file date? I have no idea what's happened with meta data on my NAS. I have over 600GB of images(!) but a fast internet connection so I'm not overly concerned about the migration/upload. These will then be automatically backed up in the Cloud. So I'm thinking of going back to Photos, but I'd like to keep the images on my NAS as a completely independent backup of all my images. It's not perfect, but still decent from what I can tell. In theory this is fine, however it is a bit slow and while it's nice to have control over my images, over the years Apple has done what they always do and has improved Photos so that it's now a much better product. It has software called Moments that works a bit like Photos and allows me to use my NAS as a cloud for my own images. ![]() I hated it and so moved away from it opting to use my Synology NAS to store all my images. Then Apple ditched it in favour of the Photos app. ![]() Years ago I used iPhoto for my images and really liked it.
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