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caikj001
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4 years ago

Backing up Apple Photos Library to DropBox Back up

I use a Mac air and currently my photos library (about 400 GB so far) is stored on 2 external hard drives (which are duplicates of each other). I want to store one copy of my apple photos library on ...
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caikj001
Explorer | Level 4
4 years ago

thanks Hannah. thank you so much for your reply. Yes i have seen the back up feature of external hard drives and this is what i'm thinking about using but I wasn't sure if my apple library would be ok being backed up this way as its quite big (currently 400gb)  and and I wondered if there were any problems using dropbox back up to do this? 

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Jay
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4 years ago

Hi caikj001, provided that this copy of your photos library isn't the live version, then it should be a folder filled with files, which is relatively easy to backup using the external drive backup.

 

The photos library should be a package file (similar to a zip) so while it looks like a single file, it's actually a folder with many files in it, so it would show up like that on the Dropbox site.

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