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How to move an Apple Photos for OS X library to an external drive

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Rick Henningsen has a Photos Library question:</p>

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I want to move my Photos Library from the boot drive to a larger external drive. I suspect that I should <strong>not</strong> just move it in the Finder and then designate the library on the new drive as the system library.</p>

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Remarkably, you can just move it!</p><ol>
<li>Quit Photos.</li>
<li>Copy the Photos Library by dragging it from the startup volume to your external volume.</li>
<li>When complete, hold down the Option key and launch Photos.</li>
<li>In Photos, select Photos &gt; Preferences, and in the General tab, click Use as System Photo Library.</li>
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