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Issue moving photo library

  • 11-01-2022 2:59pm
    #1
    whippet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,706 ✭✭✭


    I am hoping someone might be able to help

    A while back I moved my photo library from my Mac to an external SSD to save space. I don't use the photos app on the Mac much (actually very little).

    I think I may have made a mistake as I was using the same SSD as a time machine target.

    Today I tried opening the photo library from the SSD and Photos is saying that there isn't enough disk space to open it - I am assuming it is due to the Internal disk not having the space - but that is why I want it on an external.

    I read somewhere that it won't open if it is on the same device as a time machine. So I have attached another external drive, formatted to APFS and tried to copy the library to that. However - about half way though the copy it throws up an error saying that it can't copy the file - error

    "You can't copy 'Photos Library.photolibrary' because it has the same name as another item on the destination volume, and that volume doesn't distinguish between upper - and lowercase letters in filenames."

    I'm a little stuck now as I'd like to point the time machine to a different drive (which has already completed a couple of good backups) - format the SSD and use that for the photo library. But I can't format the SSD until I've moved the library.



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  • #2
    DeconSheridan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 141 ✭✭DeconSheridan


    In your Pictures folder right click on 'Photos Library.photolibrary' choose Show package Contents, Originals folder is where all your photos should be.



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