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mcarbl
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3 years ago
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Download Photos Backup to new iMac

I bought a new desktop Mac. Before I sold my old one, I backed up the Photos Library.photoslibrary file as a Dropbox Backup. I no longer have this machine and it is removed from my iCloud account.  ...
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    mcarbl
    3 years ago

    Hi Nancy

     

    Thank you for getting back to me. I used the Dropbox Backup solution to select my photolibrary on my MAC, and it was all automated from that point. 

     

    To download, I had to select individual groups of folders due to the 'too many zips' message. It's a shame it wasn't automated to download as it was to upload. After all, it is Dropbox's backup process that must have created the 'zips'. 

     

    Nevertheless, I've downloaded everything and successfully imported the library onto my new Mac.

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