I posted this in Mac Apps thread but thought it might be more appropriate here.
I've always used local storage for photos. And back up. I decided I'd try iCloud Photos as additional back up and for the features. I keep storage on an external drive and the file size of the library at the time of turning on iCloud Photos was app 860gb - 75k photos. I began the sync/upload. The next day when I came back to the computer I'm told I don't have enough storage to sync locally. I look on the drive and somehow the Photo library has ballooned up to 1.45TB! I have no idea what the deal is. There were maybe 20 pictures in iCloud prior to doing this when I set up my kids iPad and I forgot to turn off iCloud services. I looked at my newly purchased 2tb iCloud and it's showing 208gb of photos oddly enough. And the icing on the cake... when opening photo's I now get, "Photos was unable to open the library “Photos Library”. (3146)". Maybe I'm an idiot but I'm thinking I may just need to keep doing what I've done and live on physical drives.
Help would be greatly appreciated!
I've always used local storage for photos. And back up. I decided I'd try iCloud Photos as additional back up and for the features. I keep storage on an external drive and the file size of the library at the time of turning on iCloud Photos was app 860gb - 75k photos. I began the sync/upload. The next day when I came back to the computer I'm told I don't have enough storage to sync locally. I look on the drive and somehow the Photo library has ballooned up to 1.45TB! I have no idea what the deal is. There were maybe 20 pictures in iCloud prior to doing this when I set up my kids iPad and I forgot to turn off iCloud services. I looked at my newly purchased 2tb iCloud and it's showing 208gb of photos oddly enough. And the icing on the cake... when opening photo's I now get, "Photos was unable to open the library “Photos Library”. (3146)". Maybe I'm an idiot but I'm thinking I may just need to keep doing what I've done and live on physical drives.
Help would be greatly appreciated!