BenRiceMHaving Lots of Photos is a F**king Nightmare
https://www.benricemccarthy.com/having-lots-of-photos-is-a-f-king-nightmare/
Dr. Joe Sarsero, Ph.D.@BenRiceM My family’s workaround is to store optimised photos on our personal Macs but store full quality photos on a shared Mac mini that is also backed up.
However, we have almost exhausted our 4TB of iCloud Drive storage.
However, we have almost exhausted our 4TB of iCloud Drive storage.
Graham Harper@joesarsero @BenRiceM we do similar with a shared Mac mini, but don’t keep everything in the iCloud library.
Instead I have an “Archive” Photos library on a drive attached to the Mac mini. Whenever iCloud gets full up I use PowerPhotos Merge feature to offload photos from the iCloud library to the Archive library. Then once I know they’re safely backed up, I just delete enough photos from the iCloud library to get me back under the limit.
@joesarsero @BenRiceM the draw back is that the Archive is offline and isn’t viewable from Photos app on devices, but I can log into the Mac mini remotely from any device and fire up the library that way.