The best alternative is to use WiFi drives, like the Kensington Wi Drive (16 or 32 Gigs) or the Seagate Go Flex Satellite. Here's how they work: they emit a WiFi signal that your iPhone/iPad can pick up and stream from. 80 for the 32 Gigs version. 100 for each 16 Gigs of extra storage on its products. 180 on Amazon) but it has huge capacity of 500 Gigs.
This drive could become your backup drive for important files and tons of media, and you can take it anywhere with you and access its contents from your iPad/iPhone. The Kensington drive uses an old format and you can't store on it any file more than 4 Gigs. Not a problem per se since movie files should be less than that, even formatted in very high quality.
Also, the Kensington drive doesn't allow any long file names because of the antiquated file format used. If you try to transfer a PDF with a long file name from your Mac, the file name will be truncated, which can cause issues to differentiate files if they start with the same characters.
The Seagate drive takes a while to update its file directory. You may add files or folders from your Mac but you may not see the files/folders from your iPhone/iPad. One way to solve the issue is to install a special file onto the root directory than reset the device. Cumbersome, but it works.
Overall, the Kensington is a good choice for movies, provided you don't need your entire movie collection with you. If you have files with long names, avoid the Kensington and go for the Seagate drive and but be patient with its update process or go through the process of resetting the drive after installing the special file.
Click Other Library and navigate to the location on the external drive that holds the now-transferred Photos Library, select the Library, and then click Open. At this point, Photos will open and use the library located on the external drive. While this process can be used to reconnect with the Photos Library, it can also be used to switch between multiple Photo Library archives. This is handy in some cases, such as if a friend or colleague provides their Photo Library on a portable drive for you to browse and use for work.
Note that in order to access your photographs, the external drive needs to be connected to the Mac before entering Photos. The Photos app will warn you if the Library is not accessible in this case, with the solution being to quit Photos and reconnect the drive before relaunching Photos.
Generally, the initially created Photo Library will be the System Photo Library by default, but actions such as moving it or designating another Library temporarily with the label can stop a Photos Library from being used in this way. To re-enable it, hold down the Option key and open Photos, then select the Library you want to use as the System Photo Library. Once opened, select Photos in the Menu bar then Preferences.
Within the General tab of the Preferences window, you should see the current Library's path under Library Location, and two buttons: the previously discussed Show in Finder and Use as System Photos Library. Click the second option to set it as the System Photo Library. One of the main aims of this project is to free up space on your Mac's internal drive, and since the Photos Library resides elsewhere, it is likely to be in your interests to delete the locally-held version.
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