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How to Organize All Your iCloud Photos
If you have thousand of photos piling up, here’s how
to keep them backed up and organized
One of the great things about iCloud is that you can
store lots of pictures. One of the bad things about
iCloud is that you can store lots of pictures. Here are
some tips to help you back up and organize all your
thousands of photos without doing too much sifting
through memories of Halloween 2017.
To back up the photos somewhere besides the cloud,
open up the Photos app on your Mac. Then open
Preferences, and select the iCloud tab. On that page,
select “Download originals to this Mac”. That will save
all your photos locally to your computer. If you want to
add an external hard drive for extra safety, you can
use third-party software like Backblaze, or your Mac’s
built-in Time Machine function, which will back up the
rest of your computer as well. To manually move all
the photos over, just plug in your hard drive, open
Finder, go to Pictures, and drag the Photos Library
over to the new hard drive.
If you’d like to organize your photos so they are easi-
er to navigate, go to iCloud.com and log in with your
AppleID. Then select Photos and click the plus sign at
the top to create and name a new album. With the
new album created, simply select one or multiple pho-
tos, and click the plus sign again to select where
you’d like to send them.
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Today, with more older adults being fully vaccinat-
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Nationwide, in May 2021, people under 44 years
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Unvaccinated people are at greater risk. The
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virus at all, according to data from the Centers for
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