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Interesting that they suggest switching the system library between two libraries rather than logging into a different user account.

I sent the same question to support at fatcatsoftware.com <http://fatcatsoftware.com/>, makers of PowerPhotos. Their reply is below. Their suggestions are similar to what has been posted here with

This might be a novel solution, don’t turn on optimize storage for the iCloud account. Then do regular backups to an external drive. The OP is fighting against a situation that is “either/or”,

Steve, the way I understood your original post, you were concerned about your “up to this point” photos, going forward you will need to repeat what ever steps you take. If you are worried about

I think you will have to accept, that it’s either full-size or low-res. It can’t be both. My solution would be - as someone else has already suggested - to buy a fast external SSD with enough

In which case, I’d save the full-res photos elsewhere and back them up *before* they go into iCloud. Otto

?That’s exactly right. That’s how iCloud Photos works when Optimized Mac Storage is enabled. That is, there’s no dependency between iCloud Photos and Time Machine.

Are you saying that future photos will be “optimised” (reduced) automatically without you having a chance to back them up? That can’t be right. Otto

No, of course not: like any backup, it needs to be kept up to date. Otto

Otto, that is what I was kicking around but then I realized what Ben said earlier, that it would not capture future photos. Ben, that looks doable, though I know myself well enough to know that future

Doing so wouldn’t capture future photos added to the library.

I think your best scenario is to move your library of originals to an external drive, create a second user account on your Mac, sign into your same Apple account, and point iCloud Photos to the

Steve, I must be missing something here, but why can’t you back up the *full res* photos as I said *before* enabling Optimize…? Otto

Something isn’t clear to me about this. You want to free up space on your internal drive, right? But you don’t want to put the photos on an external drive because you leave it behind when moving

But if I enable "Optimize Mac Storage" in the Mac Photos app then my local copy of Photos Library.photoslibrary would only contain thumbnails, or anyway reduced resolution copies of my photos. The

You could use TM, CCC or SD to back up whatever you want. Otto

macOS 15.4.1, M2 MacBook Air Photos > Settings > iCloud In the not too distant future I may have to enable "Optimize Mac Storage" on my Mac to recover storage space on the internal SSD. Is there a way

Jim - Yes, that app from Emerald and Sequoia worked great until I switched from my beloved iPhone SE (pretty small form factor). Keep your old iPhone as long as you can if you need to keep an old app

It’s hard to say. But I have over half a dozen browsers installed on my machine so that I can keep track of which currently seems to be the best. While several of them block trackers, none of them

Doing a direct wired transfer from one iPhone to another is different from backing up an iPhone to iCloud or a computer and then restoring that back to another iPhone. The former includes all data on