How To Transfer Mac Photos To External Hard Drive. Drag the photos library to a location on your external storage device. If you dont see pictures in the sidebar you can click go home pictures.

Click on finder preferences from the menu bar select the sidebar tab and check the folders you want to be displayed whenever you open a new finder window. An additional backup for icloud photo library is necessary. You can create a new folder to save photos.
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Transferring data from a mac to pc via an external hard drive. In this video i will show you how to transfer filespics from icloud. Drag photos library to the external drive make sure you have quit photos then click and drag the photos library icon to your external drive either in the sidebar or on the desktop. Open disk utilities from finder applications.