Check the size of your Photos Library

Here's how to organize your photos and videos into albums and libraries and manage them in the Photos app for Mac.

Open Photos and choose Photos > Preferences > General. Click the Show in Finder button to go to your Photos Library. After Finder opens, select your Photos Library, then choose File > Get Info. Look under General to find the size.

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The size of your Photos Library on your Mac will usually be slightly larger than the amount of space that you need to store your photos and videos in iCloud.*

See how much iCloud storage you're using

Choose Apple menu > System Preferences. Then select iCloud to view your total and available storage.

Add the size of your Photos Library to the amount of iCloud storage you're using

To store your current iCloud content and your Photos Library, you need an iCloud storage plan with enough space for both.

When you sign up for iCloud, you automatically get 5GB of free storage. If you use all of your iCloud storage, you can buy more starting at 50GB for $0.99 a month. Learn more about prices in your country or region.

You can also reduce the size of your Photos Library.

*There are several reasons the size of your Mac Photos Library might be larger than the amount of space that you need to store your photos and videos:

• Your Photos Library might contain photos or videos that have already been added to iCloud Photos from another device.
• Part of your Photos Library size includes small system files. These files aren't uploaded when you turn on iCloud Photos.
• Your Mac and iCloud count the size of a GB differently. Your Mac displays storage representation in decimal, base 10 where 1 GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes. iCloud storage tiers are counted in binary, base 2 where 1 GB = 1, 073,741,824 bytes.

There are any number of reasons that one may want to export their Mac Photos (formerly iPhoto) library, including that they want to give it to someone else, they want to duplicate it on another machine, or they want to back their entire Photos library up to another location. But how to export your Photo library, while very simple to do, is not obvious. So, here’s how to export your entire Mac Photos library.

You would think that the Export option under the Photos menu would give you some relief.

Export from Mac Photos

But you would be wrong.

No Export Full Library Option in Mac Photos

Now, you can export all of your photos:

But that only exports the actual photo files, not your full library that can be opened with Photos as a library with all of the library settings, etc.

So, how can you export the actual library? It’s actually very easy; here’s how.

The first step in exporting your Mac Photos library is determining where your library resides on your hard drive.

To do that, open Preferences in Photos:

Look in the General section, where it says Library Location:

Now, click on Show in Finder

This will open a Finder window with your current Mac Photos library highlighted

*NOTE: Your Mac Photos library will almost certainly be called something else; we changed the name of the file for the purposes of this tutorial.

Now…here is the secret: to export your Mac Photos library to another location, all you have to do is copy that file over to the new location!

That’s it, you’re done!

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