How to properly download your iCloud Photo Library<article>
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<p>There’s no macOS issue I hear about more than iCloud Photo Library. It's a service that answers many users’ needs, but there are some not-quite-outlying demands that fall through the cracks. This often revolves around being able to get a full set of your images and movies in iCloud Photo Library if you don’t have enough storage on your Mac startup volume.</p><p>Macworld reader Shai wrote in with such a concern recently. They have a 300GB media library synced with iCloud Photo Library and a modest disk drive on their MacBook Pro, so Photos for macOS is set to optimize media. The full-resolution versions of images and video are thus only held in iCloud.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3276345/data-center-cloud/how-to-properly-download-your-icloud-photo-library.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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How to properly download your iCloud Photo Library