Recently I happened to uncheck the iCloud Photo Library checkbox in System Preferences for some reason.
#MAC SYNC PHOTOS TO STORAGE MEDIA INSTALL#
I’ve been putting off doing a nuke and pave for far too long and it’s all because after I drag my Photos library from my backup to fresh install of macOS, it does this three-week dance of agony. If you’re not used to having your photos happily swoosh from your phone to your Mac, this doesn’t sound like a big deal, but as a huge Photos user, this is the whole point of iCloud Photo Library. That wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world, except that during this 3 week period, no new photos come down to the Mac, because it’s busy with this tedious task. It doesn’t actually take up a lot of bandwidth because it’s just saying, “Have you got this adorable picture of Allison’s grandson wearing rabbit ears and nothing else?” “Yup, got it.” “Ok, next one…” That means I have to leave my computer on and not asleep 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for 3 weeks till it’s done verifying every file. With a 70,000 photo library, and a 100Mbps symmetric FiOS Internet connection, this process of checking every single photo takes around 3 weeks. But when you’ve got 70,000 photos, this turns into a huge problem. With a normal library, this might cause a check of say 1000 photos or even 5000 photos.
#MAC SYNC PHOTOS TO STORAGE MEDIA FULL#
On the machine which has the full resolution photos, If that connection to iCloud gets disturbed in any way, the iCloud service will check every single image to see if it’s been synced to and from iCloud. This is when things can go horribly wrong. Maybe you just bump the checkbox for iCloud Photo Library in System Preferences. Maybe iCloud Drive isn’t syncing properly. Some problems require logging out of iCloud and back in again to solve, or at the very least turning it off and on again. It really is a wonderful thing.Įxcept when it’s not. I can even get to all of my photos by logging into. And yet I have access to all of these photos on my iPhone and iPad, which certainly don’t have 500GB of storage. My Photos library is giant by any measure, with more than 70,000 images taking up over 500GB of space. Any edits on one device are magically reflected on all other devices. At all times thumbnails are available to be tapped, and as long as you have an Internet connection your vast library is always available to you. If you choose optimized photos, some images will be stored locally in full resolution and some come down on demand when you tap on them. This optimization means you’ll never run out of space on your iPhone, iPad or your Mac. On each device, you can choose whether to keep the originals or to let Apple use their algorithms to optimize your photo library.
With a few dollars a month, you can have all of your photos swooshing up and down to the cloud, resident on all of your devices. ICloud Photo Library is a glorious thing.
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