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Title: How to avoid losing media when working with iCloud Photo Library
Post by: HCK on July 11, 2018, 04:05:13 pm
How to avoid losing media when working with iCloud Photo Library

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<p>I may have noted before that we receive more questions about Photos for macOS than any other topic at Mac 911. A recent set of questions from Macworld reader Pedro bring up an interesting intersection of potential pitfalls, some of which I’ve answered individually before, but which are useful to look at together.</p><p>Pedro has a small disk drive on his MacBook Air, just 128GB, and thus is wrestling like many people with keeping his entire Photos library on the internal drive. He has iCloud Photo Library active, and wants to rely on it, but is already running out of space. He has three questions.</p><p><strong>Syncing, disabling, deleting, and then syncing.</strong> Pedro knows that deleting an image off the laptop will delete it everywhere when iCloud Photo Library is active, something I’ve reminded readers of time (https://www.macworld.com/article/3152646/photography/don-t-delete-your-photos-after-turning-on-icloud-photo-library.html) and time again (https://www.macworld.com/article/3136269/software/yes-if-you-delete-your-photos-from-icloud-photo-library-theyre-deleted-everywhere.html). That’s good to know. However, he wonders about this scenario:</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3287936/data-center-cloud/how-to-avoid-losing-media-when-working-with-icloud-photo-library.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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