1. Dr Daljit Mac

Apple's photo management software for the Mac, has grown to be a fairly competent all-purpose storage locker. But as your photo and video library grows — and especially if you've taken advantage of — you may find that your Photos library strains to fit on your Mac's hard drive.

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Dr Daljit Mac

While there are options to keep your Mac from running out of space, like if you use iCloud Photo Library, it comes at a cost: Without a fully-stored Photos library, you won't be able to create secondary. (And as good as iCloud has become, your photos and video are precious enough that they're worth keeping backed up in multiple places.) There is an alternative: Moving your Photos library to an external drive (or creating an entirely separate library and syncing it with iCloud). Here's how to do it, and some reasons why you should — and shouldn't! — consider it for your needs.