 Photos storage query
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Some time ago I unchecked Photos from iCloud and immediately got a message that I had 30 days to download all my photos or they would be gone forever. I downloaded them.
I worried that I’d now be faced with the task of putting the downloaded photos into the Photos app. However, the worry was unnecessary because nothing disappeared from the Photos app never changed but I now have a gigantic folder on my desktop containing the downloaded photos.
I’d like to reclaim the drive space by trashing the downloaded photos file but first I need some clarification about how the Photos app works vis-a-vis storage location.
My process is the drag photos to the app and file them in albums, et cetera. Am I right to assume that this process means the photos are stored on my drive, not somewhere in the ethernet?
ryck
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Re: Photos storage query
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My process is the drag photos to the app and file them in albums, et cetera. Am I right to assume that this process means the photos are stored on my drive, not somewhere in the ethernet? Yes. The are stored in Photos Library.photoslibrary in ~/Pictures. They could additionally be in the cloud if you so choose.
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Currently: 24" M1 iMac, M2 Pro Mac mini with 27" BenQ monitor, M2 Macbook Air, MacOS 14.x; iPhones, iPods (yes, still) and iPads.
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Re: Photos storage query
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Thanks. That what I sort of expected but thought, better to check than be wrong and lose everything.
ryck
"What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits" The Doobie Brothers
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OS Sonoma 14.4.1
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Re: Photos storage query
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Be aware that with iCloud settings turned ON, the images stored on your device are optimized for display and to save storage space on the local device but linked to the full resolution images on iCloud. If you edit, print, or share the image, the full resolution iCloud version is used. To retrieve the full resolution images from iCloud follow these Apple instructions.
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Re: Photos storage query
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Be aware that with iCloud settings turned ON, the images stored on your device are optimized for display and to save storage space on the local device but linked to the full resolution images on iCloud. iCloud is turned on because I want stuff like Contacts and Calendars on other devices. However, I don't want Photos everywhere, so it is not checked.
Last edited by ryck; 01/28/23 11:14 PM.
ryck
"What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits" The Doobie Brothers
iMac (Retina 5K, 27", 2020), 3.8 GHz 8 Core Intel Core i7, 8GB RAM, 2667 MHz DDR4
OS Sonoma 14.4.1
Canon Pixma TR 8520 Printer
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TM on 1TB LaCie USB-C
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Re: Photos storage query
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I had an adventure with iCloud a few months ago, if I remember this correctly:
Looking at the preference panel, I saw that iCloud Drive was unchecked. I wondered what would happen if I checked it.
The computer started sending data to the cloud and I stopped the copying, as I have a 10 Gb limit and already used half of it.
Sometime later, I tried to access an important, often used file - only to find that it had disappeared. In fact, my entire 22 Gb Documents folder was gone. A search showed nothing. Not just misplaced, but wiped.
Luckily, I had a backup from the night before and very little was lost.
WTF???!!!
Oh, gee, what does this button do?
Saved by multiple redundancy.
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