![]() What's a terrible recommendation? I didn't make any recommendations, I just repeated what Apple says you should do: Manually drag the Photos library to another drive. Manual backups aren't usually the best solution. You'd want to use an app like CarbonCop圜loner or similar to automate this process, obviously. I don't know if it's OK to copy it to the Time Machine drive, just outside the Time Machine folder, or if you'd ideally need a third drive. Thanks Ed that appears to address the second question. Update: Ed Mechem's comment points out Apple's Back up thew Photos library page, which recommends simply dragging your Photos library to another drive to back it up. Seriously, Apple, tell me how to back up the 8TB external drive I'm using to hold my photos…there must be an Apple-accepted solution, right? So if I have to go to the cloud for primary photo storage, I don't think I'll be using Apple's solution (even though it's obviously the best-integrated). At that level, I'd need the 2TB iCloud plan at $10 a month…versus Google and Amazon, both of which offer unlimited photo storage space for free (though Google has caps on image and video resolution). My library is over 40,000 photos and 1,400+ videos, requiring in excess of 500GB of storage. I know Apple's answer to the second question is "You shouldn't be storing photos locally, they should all be in the cloud." But if you have a huge collection of photos and videos, and/or if you've got slow or limited internet, this is not a realistic option.
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