Need advice storing videos

[Hustler]

I have a 2010 mba with a smallish 128gb hard drive. I have a nifty drive with a 128gb micro sd card that I leave installed, and that I have my photos photo library installed on.

I have a 2tb hd that I use for backups. My computer 128 ssd drive is kinda full with other stuff, plus my 128 nifty drive is getting full. Much of my photo library space is videos.

How can I move my videos to another location (like my hd that I use for backups), while keeping my photo library on my nifty drive? Can they stay in the same photo library kind of format, in a way when I can still upload/sync them to my iPhone or iPad if I don’t keep them in the same exact location as my photo library on my nifty drive?

If it matters my mba is on high Sierra, which I’m having issues with safari causing my computer to slow to a crawl after safari runs for a while for some reason. But that’s for another thread lol.

Thanks
Brad

 

[bartvk]

I don't know much about photo library, but perhaps another approach: what about getting one of those 200 GB micro SD cards?

 

[Fishrrman]

"If it matters my mba is on high Sierra, which I’m having issues with safari causing my computer to slow to a crawl after safari runs for a while for some reason."

I'm going to -guess- that you don't have enough free space left on your internal drive. You should have at least 4-5gb of "free space" available for VM disk swapping, temp files, caches, etc.

For storing videos, I'd get an external drive (HDD or SSD) and dedicate it to that purpose. I'll reckon that most of these videos you probably don't access all that often, so when you want to view one it's a simple matter to connect the external drive and either watch it from there, or perhaps make a copy of what you're going to watch on the MacBook's drive (which you can delete later on).

Of course, if these files are important to you, you'll need A SECOND external drive to serve as a backup to your "primary external storage".

What follows is my opinion only:
You'd probably do just as well or even better using Low Sierra or even El Capitan on an older MBA...

 

[Hustler]

I don't know much about photo library, but perhaps another approach: what about getting one of those 200 GB micro SD cards?

Yea that is one option, they are a little pricey though and I’ve already got the other 2tb backup external hard drive. I may have another external hard drive that is an older 128gb somewhere I can try to find and may just use that if I can figure how to get it to sync with my iPhone while still syncing photos from my photo library.

"If it matters my mba is on high Sierra, which I’m having issues with safari causing my computer to slow to a crawl after safari runs for a while for some reason."

I'm going to -guess- that you don't have enough free space left on your internal drive. You should have at least 4-5gb of "free space" available for VM disk swapping, temp files, caches, etc.

For storing videos, I'd get an external drive (HDD or SSD) and dedicate it to that purpose. I'll reckon that most of these videos you probably don't access all that often, so when you want to view one it's a simple matter to connect the external drive and either watch it from there, or perhaps make a copy of what you're going to watch on the MacBook's drive (which you can delete later on).

Of course, if these files are important to you, you'll need A SECOND external drive to serve as a backup to your "primary external storage".

What follows is my opinion only:
You'd probably do just as well or even better using Low Sierra or even El Capitan on an older MBA...

I have somewhere around 30-40gb free on my internal ssd so I don’t think that’s the issue.

About the extra hard drive, that’s the thing I probably would access them at least as often as to sync to my iPhone so I can keep certain videos of my 1yr old son I’ve taken, on the iPhone. Not all of them, but my favorite 10-20 vid’s maybe.

And yes I agree about my older mba on this high Sierra, it was no high performer before but it really is a slouch on this when using safari. I’m considering figuring how to downgrade. I’ve never done that before so I’ll do my homework before attempting. Another option may be to try to re install high Sierra over, if that’s possible. Again something I’ll need to research.