Doc Rock, you did a phenomenal job walking us through this process! I was able to free up some valuable gigs on my new Mac M1. Keep up the great work!

I LOVE this guy! He's clear. And fun. Good on camera. Answers all the little "what ifs" before you even think of them.

@DocRock

3 жыл бұрын

Mahalo and #Aloha

Great video! very well scripted, direct straight to the point full of information at just the right pace. This is exactly what I was looking for. You Rock!

@DocRock

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching.

I agree with your Backup philosophy. Backup, Backup, Backup! Stuff fails so one is not enough...you need a belt, suspenders, and Duct tape to keep your files from falling down! Thanks for all the info.

This was excellent. So, if I were to take a step back, what's the best way to sync all your iPhone photos to the photo app on the mac?

Thanks for this! I'm new to the Apple ecosystem and have the M1 Mac Mini with 256GB storage, and didn't want to turn iCloud photos on until I figured out how to run it from my external drive. Concise and perfect tutorial!

@daygeckoarthawaii1360

10 ай бұрын

Did it transfer all your photos and videos from iCloud to the USB drive? Mine isn't doing that. The USB drive now only contains what was already on the boot drive!

Hey Doc you do Rock. That was a great presentation. I’ve been in engineering hardware/software for over 40 years. I use a lot of different platforms. PC, Unix, Linux, Mac… I actually owned one of the original Macs back in the early 80s so I’ve been a long time user. Thanks for your video. Totally Awesome Dude!

Hi Doc Rock, you're a real rock. Now with no excuses I'll find the courage to get them back and move the photos, first from my phone back to the mac (where they had disappeared) then hopefully to my new SSD. In other words you've convinced me to try again. Thanks a lot. I will subscribe as you're so clear and to the point. Keep rocking 😊

Love this guy. So helpful. I did do the bonehead thing and filled up my brand new MBP within a few days. This was perfect.

@DocRock

3 жыл бұрын

Appreciate you. Trust you are not alone. Thanks for watching.

You do rock, Doc! I've worried about this for years. No more.

THANK YOU!!! years of struggling with being stingy with downloads hahaha!!! With only 1gig left, you are a LIFESAVER!

Thank you so much! I had 1.2 terabytes of photos on my computer. Your video was awesome and very clear and precise. You really are "Doc Rock"!

Doc I found this video last year when I first got my Mac way before I knew you were going to be part of my every day life. Way before I knew what e-camm was way before everything. So I guess it is destiny I found you. Thanks for all of your teachings.

You have great content Doc, I came across your video by accident, I found you easy to listen to and instructions very clear - I wondered if you could do the same video for IPad users, I am struggling to transfer my iCloud photos to an external hard drive using my IPad Pro. Any help would be greatly appreciated

OMG THANK YOU I needed to learn this lol. I literally just used up all my storage on my new MacBook Air.

@DocRock

3 жыл бұрын

Happy to help. Yes it happens.

To the point, no fillers, top notch quality video!

Thanks so much for this excellent tutorial. It was very helpful having you talk through each process step by step. And it worked a treat! Otherwise I’d never have had the balls to empty that trash can! Cheers from York, UK.

@DocRock

3 жыл бұрын

Appreciate that comment and the watch. #GGMU hahahahaha

I can’t thank you enough! I just got a 5 TB “My Passport” the other day to finally have a backup for my Mac, which has been my backup for several years now. Along with backing up my Mac, I also got it to back up everything else (Dell laptop, modded 3DS, which I sadly already deleted most of my photos off of by accident, etc.), as my 3DS said the photos were “corrupted ”. Being clueless at that time, I deleted them. I lost about 6 years of photos and have learned how important it is to keep a backup. I had found my video album, but would have never found my photo library if it weren’t for this! Again, I thank you.

This was super informative and helpful, thank you. Once you've moved your photos library from your Mac to an external SSD (Samsung T7), and if I want to select few photos from the photos library (Stored in the Samsung T7) and transfer it to my iPhone - how do I do that?

You are absolutely the best. Literally everything I was searching for for AGES. Awesome work my man, you deserve more subs.

Dude, you are the man! I’ve been trying to figure this out forever… You explained it perfectly!!!!!

Thank you so very much. Your video has been a huge help to me 🙏.God bless you 🙏🎶😊. I just ended up freeing almost 300 GB of space on my laptop thanks to your very clear instructions. I have 2 questions : 1) The 'consolidate' option is clickable . Once I click it, it says 'No referenced files to consolidate. The selected items are already stored in the library' .... Is this how it's supposed to be or have I done something wrong ? 2) Do I just repeat this process every time I move new photos from my iPhone to the laptop and then to the same external hard disk as I just moved what I have so far to ?

Thank you so much for this tutorial I was able to move it successfully!

@DocRock

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching

this was nothing short of amazing. exactly the content I was looking for. muchas gracias!!

Thanks, good video. This is way I did it for my 310GB of photos. Open photo app on your MAC, make sure you highlight Photos on the left menu, once you see all your pictures, click Command A to select all, now drag to a folder created on your external SSD, let it copy. The beauty of this is that by default apple stored pictures in HEIC format but when you drag them to external SSD Pics are copied in JPEG format. I like my pictures in JPEG or RAW format. Now go back to your Photo App-Preferences-iCloud-iCloud Photo-Optimize Mac Storage. Sweet. This way is easier to work with pictures anywhere any OS. Hope this method help some people.

@DocRock

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for that

I cannot thank you enough for this! I moved my file to an external drive and did not know to bring it back. Thanh you, thank you, thank you!

@pwood5733

9 ай бұрын

I realised this would happen before i did it. I need to move the content of my photos app to a drive not the app itself

@gergemall

9 ай бұрын

Agreed ❤

Thank you. This was super helpful and easy to follow.

Thanks so much for sharing this - wish I saw this before I called apple and they gave me the run around just for me to find this out.. but now it all makes sense ! deleted everything on my brand new macbook pro, but you live and you learn! Thanks again!

My dad’s MacBook Pro is running out of space and I found out Apple Photos is taking up 90% of the storage. I was so shocked!! I was trying to figure out how to move the Photos lib to an external and I found you. Excellent video. Mahalo.

@DocRock

3 жыл бұрын

Happy to help

Thank you doc rock you really rock! You have save me tons and tons of time going on tutorial after tutorials to move my photos I recently upgraded to Mac book pro from windows and yeah I felt like information overloaded So thank you for helping me clear the cloud of confusion in my head! You gained a sub from me! Thank you again Gob bless you and aloha!

Dude... Why is your intro so dope? This video was clear and straight to the point!

great tutorial, and very high quality video production...! animations and all that. Nice job! This is my first time seeing your videos. If others are like this, I will definitely subscribe!

@DocRock

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Boss. Appreciate that. #Aloha 🤙🏽

Very Helpful. Now question, with this method. Since now were uploading photos to the photos library in the External Hard Drive, when doing backups - should we just drag and drop the new file to another hard drive or does this not save the new imported photos to the selected drive?

Thank u Doc Rock, this was very helpful!

I don't know you but I feel like I've known you for years. That's such a powerful trait. Thanks for the video Doc Rock, it was very well done!

@DocRock

3 жыл бұрын

I appreciate that! #Aloha Let's grab a drink soon :P hahahaha

Aloha Doc Rock, new to your channel, great tips my man. So i work for a certain fruit company doing tech support for this specific app, that being said, your instructions are spot on with moving the library. as a side note, if you do not have an external drive and go to photos > preferences > icloud tab > click on optimize mac storage. This will keep the full res images in your library in icloud and keep optimized versions on the internal mac HD, so in theory saving space on the internal drive. Keep up these awesome videos yo

@DocRock

3 жыл бұрын

Great tip. I really miss the Farm (I was a Geni). It was great but I missed content creation more 🤣

@bboycharmin

3 жыл бұрын

@@DocRock haha this creating content job is probably way more fun...gotta go and watch some dude on macbreak weekly now

Thanks for a clear concise video. Extremely helpfull

Nice info. I dislike software that creates database files somewhere it chooses, before too long these files get huge.

Thank you for the clarity of your instructions!

Finally ! Video answered all questions clearly ! Thanks so much

Nice video bro , greetings from Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia 💪🙏

great video!! kind of sort out change the iCould Drive location issue.

Great video my man! This was very easy to follow!

INSANELY helpful!! Thank you so much.

This was extremely helpful! One question...I have been working from photos on an external hard drive (Apple Airport), and I am finding it impossible to use MOTIF or other apps to create photo books for export. I keep running into an error with their software, in that they say their program is inoperable from an external drive. Have you seen this?

Have you tried Adobe Lightroom Catalogues? Why do you prefer Photos over LR. Or can you make a video about advantages and disadvantages of both?

Brilliant. Thanks for your help and the easy explanation!

This really helped thank you!

Just what I was looking for - thank you!

@DocRock

3 жыл бұрын

Glad I could help!

Thanks bro, you make it very easy

best video for this you make it easy and very clear instructions thank you

Thanks for the tutorial it work 👍🏾😘🎉!

This has been the BEST video to help with my issue!! Thank you so much!!

Hey thanks for this saved so much space on my Mac. However whenever I try and eject the hard drive it says it is being used even though all programmes are close?

you are just great, you solved a big problem for me, I have same problem for creating backups to my IPAD as well, can we do same i always get like 12-15 GB of space on my 250 gb MAC Pro

Mahalo! Your video has solved the problem I've had with my Mac Mini ever since I first got it. 🤙

THANK YOU FOR ALL THE INFO!!!! I'm paranoid about losing my photos. Doing God's work! thanks!

Thank you sir!! The ease & clarity of it all.

Perfect video! This worked out perfectly for me :) Thanks

Thank you! I got confused with the last step because you were not selecting the same external hard drive to link to photos.

Thank you for this video 😊

Thanks For The great Advice

I learned a lot. Thank you. Can you make a video on how to retrieve or look at the photos that is saved on your external drive? I can't seem to do it. I followed all your steps to Copy Photos Library to an EXTERNAL drive, but now I'm kinda having a hard time "looking" at those photos...

@DocRock

3 жыл бұрын

Hero Hour just double click the library 📚 file you copied over

Thank you! Just what I was looking for.

Loved this! Thanks so much!!!

New subscriber, thank you for the help on this. recently bought the MacBook Pro M1. Great info

Sir dope video Thank you So much

This was an awesome tutorial, thank you so much!

@DocRock

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Thanks for this.

This video is so timely thank you so much

Than you for this 👍👍👍

this sounds awesome. I have been needing info like this for years. I found you when I was needing to figure out how to transfer my photos into Lightroom (I have 30,000). I wasn't sure whether or not I was going to bother or just start start using an external hard drive for my Lightroom work. so that my Catalog would only be on the external and work directly from the external (having to make sure I have it with me at all times). instead of finding that video telling me how to transfer my photos to Lightroom, I found this video. I need this. 1. I don't understand how you can drag your photos library to the trash 2. what happens to the photos on the iPhone? won't the iPhone pictures which I guess are all in the cloud just repopulate the computer library? (I have iCloud storage of 1 T). 3. what did you mean at the end about using an external something to plug the external into to do the transfer? you bring up a device to use in addition to the external hard drive.

Thank you so much! This made it so easy to do

Thank you! This was very helpful

@DocRock

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching

Very helpful indeed. Thank you!

Great video! Thanks! I’m new to Mac OS. Once I’m done, how do I prevent the system from downloading the photos again from iCloud? I like having them there and sync to my iPhone and iPad, but I don’t want them in my MBP.

Thank you Doc Rock, you rock

Man finally found the best video for it! this was very helpful thank you

You are very well speaking person easily of understanding everything I learn a lot from you’re Mac stuff

Dr Rock, You ROCK. Thank You Giuseppe👍🏻

Thank you s much really helped

Hi Doc, Great presentation on a subject that a lot of peole will be apprehensive to tackle. Thank you very much. One question from me: Does this in any way affect the way in which iCloud works with Photos?

Dock rock you ROCK

Thank you so much for this video! Simple, easy to follow and said with lots of smiles. Perfect! What a lovely Guy (Smiley face Smiley face... don't know how to do that)

@DocRock

3 жыл бұрын

Hahahahaha greatly appreciated

That was absolutely awesome! Thank you so much 😊👍🏾

finallllly found a vidoe that helped. took me an hour of clicking through videos. saving the channel!

thank you so much!!

I love your video. The only question I got is, how do you make sure that photos don’t come right back after you take them off of the cloud

Great! Thank you sir!

great video, easy to follow, thanks a lot!

@DocRock

3 жыл бұрын

You’re welcome, Thanks for watching.

love it thank you!! I have the. same and I should've done research before getting it because it runs out of space so much and I just started my KZread 😫so thank you because it was not working lol

@DocRock

3 жыл бұрын

You’re smart, the thunderbolt 3 external drive is way cheaper than Apple’s upgrades. Check out My kit page. I have come drive recommendations there. docrock.live/kit

thank you so much for the video - It worked seamlessly

thank you so much! this really helped me out super quick

@DocRock

3 жыл бұрын

Glad it helped!

Wow, new subscriber and I needed this video. Thank you 😊

Wow! I’m so glad I stumbled on you ! Excellent tips! 👍🏾😎

@DocRock

3 жыл бұрын

Mahalo For the watch.

Woah I love this!! That intro! You killed it.

Yo man thanks alot . I was stressing about this but you came through.

@DocRock

3 жыл бұрын

Happy to help

This is so helpful! Thank you!

@DocRock

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching

Thank you!!!

Great thanks for this. Much appreciated.