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Title: What to do when Photos for Mac says your external drive uses an unsupported format Post by: HCK on September 27, 2018, 04:05:15 pm What to do when Photos for Mac says your external drive uses an unsupported format
<article> <section class="page"> <p>Macworld reader Carah received an error messages from Photos in macOS I’d never seen before—but which is fortunately easily diagnosed and solved.</p><p>Carah was trying to free up space on her internal disk drive, as it was nearly full, so followed instructions in another Mac 911 column (https://www.macworld.com/article/2999846/photography/how-to-move-an-apple-photos-for-os-x-library-to-an-external-drive.html) on copying Photos libraries to an external drive.</p><p>After completing the copying and launching Photos with the Option key held down to select her new external library, Photos gave her an error on selection: “The library ‘library name’ is stored on a drive that uses an unsupported disk format. To access this library, copy it to the internal drive on your Mac or to a drive that uses a supported format.”</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3306766/photography/what-to-do-when-photos-for-mac-says-your-external-drive-uses-an-unsupported-format.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: What to do when Photos for Mac says your external drive uses an unsupported format (https://www.macworld.com/article/3306766/photography/what-to-do-when-photos-for-mac-says-your-external-drive-uses-an-unsupported-format.html#tk.rss_all) |