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Title: How to make a local backup of your iCloud Photos synced library Post by: HCK on September 12, 2020, 04:05:11 pm How to make a local backup of your iCloud Photos synced library
<article> <section class="page"> <p>iCloud Photos is a great way to have all your images and videos across all your iCloud-linked devices. Apple lets you select an optimized option for storage, which ensures the full-resolution of your media is uploaded to iCloud and retained there (and accessible via icloud.com) while each end point, like an iPhone or Mac, has just a set of vastly reduced thumbnails. When you want to work with or view the full-sized photo or movie, double clicking or tapping retrieves it. You can have your cake (preserve storage on devices) and eat it too (have a huge Photos library).</p><p>The fly in that ointment is that with optimized image storage set on all your devices, you cannot make a local backup of all your media, as I explain in a 2017 column (https://www.macworld.com/article/3235647/why-you-should-not-rely-on-icloud-photo-library-as-your-only-media-backup.html). I offered one full download strategy in 2018 (https://www.macworld.com/article/3276345/how-to-properly-download-your-icloud-photo-library.html) for a reader who wanted to move from iCloud Photos to another service. Neither of these help with ongoing backups.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3563360/how-to-make-a-local-backup-of-your-icloud-photos-synced-library.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: How to make a local backup of your iCloud Photos synced library (https://www.macworld.com/article/3563360/how-to-make-a-local-backup-of-your-icloud-photos-synced-library.html#tk.rss_all) |