I would like to relocate my iPhoto library to another location, but OS X reports that copying it (approximately 40 GB) to another partition on the internal drive will take 27 hours. Thinking that the time will eventually go down, I left it for 2 hours, but, unfortunately, the time was correctly subtracted to 25 hours. This issue also occurred when backing up my data to prepare for Snow Leopard Installation (I eventually ended up going with an older Time Machine backup). It doesn't just happen when moving to another partition-- if i move to another volume using FW800 or USB2 to target partitions of NTFS (using Paragon NTFS) or HFS+, it still takes a ridiculously long time to copy. Any one have any ideas as to what may be occurring?
I am running an Early 2008 MBP with Snow Leopard. 2.5GHz Core 2 Duo, 4GB RAM, 5400RPM HDD.
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How to safely move your Mac's iPhoto library onto an external drive. By Stephen Robles Saturday, January 24, 2015, 11:00 pm PT (02:00 am ET) Today's digital cameras and advanced smartphones like. Nov 12, 2019  How to Back Up iCloud Photo Library to a Mac. Open the Photos app on your Mac. Click Photos in the menu bar and select Preferences from the drop-down menu. Choose the iCloud tab. Put a check in the box next to Download Originals to this Mac.

Your Photos library holds all your photos, albums, slideshows, and print projects. If your library is large, and you want to free up storage space on your Mac, turn on iCloud Photo Library and use Optimize Mac Storage, or move your library to an external drive.

Before you start, be sure to back up your library.

Prepare your drive

You can store your library on an external storage device, such as a USB or Thunderbolt drive formatted as APFS or Mac OS Extended (Journaled).1 Find out how to check the format of your external storage device.

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.

All your photos on all your devices. ICloud Photos gives you access to your entire Mac photo and video library from all your devices. If you shoot a snapshot, slo-mo, or selfie on your iPhone, it’s automatically added to iCloud Photos — so it appears on your Mac, iOS. Jan 12, 2020  It's not clear why Apple decided to hide the user's Library folder, but you have multiple ways to get it back: two Apple provides (depending on the version of OS X you are using) and one in the underlying file system. The method you use depends on whether you want permanent access to the Library folder or only when you need to go there.

Move your Photos library to an external storage device

  1. Quit Photos.
  2. In the Finder, go to the external drive where you want to store your library.
  3. In another Finder window, find your library. The default location is Users > [username] > Pictures, and it's named Photos Library.
  4. Drag your library to its new location on the external drive. If you see an error, select your external drive's icon in the Finder, then choose File > Get Info. If the information under Sharing & Permissions isn't visible, click , then make sure the 'Ignore ownership on this volume' checkbox is selected. If it's not selected, click to unlock it, enter an administrator name and password, then select the checkbox.2

  5. After the move is finished, double-click Photos Library in its new location to open it.
  6. If you use iCloud Photo Library, designate this library as the System Photo Library.

Delete original library to save space

After you open your library from its new location and make sure that it works as expected, you can delete the library from its original location.

In a Finder window, go back to your Pictures folder (or whichever folder you copied your library from) and move Photos Library to the trash. Then choose Finder > Empty Trash to delete the library and reclaim disk space.

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Open another Photos library

If you have multiple libraries, here's how to open a different one:

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  1. Quit Photos.
  2. Press and hold the Option key while you open Photos.
  3. Select the library that you want to open, then click Choose Library.

Photos uses this library until you open a different one.

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If you have a permissions issue with your library, you might be able to resolve the issue by using the Photos library repair tool.

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1. You can't move your library to a disk that's used for Time Machine backups.

2. If the volume isn't formatted APFS or Mac OS Extended (Journaled), or has been used for Time Machine backups but hasn't been erased, this checkbox will either not be present, or won't be selectable after unlocking. Erase and reformat the drive for this option to be available.

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