Mac Photos
I do not understand Photos. I was under the impression it was a photo organization of the physical files I took from my iPhone.
I take a picture with my iPhone.
Connect the iPhone to my mac.
Photos opens asking to import photos.
I select Import and Delete All. (this way I free up storage on my phone from photos I don't need saved.)
I've done this for every photo; I have taken about 500 of them. I recently ran out of iCloud storage. I thought "That is weird, I thought I turned off iCloud for Photos" but apparently I did not.
So, what I did was login to www.icloud.com and deleted all the photos out of that storage. I had Photos open on my macbook open at the same time to make sure I wasn't deleting anything from my iCloud account that I didn't have stored in Photos. This was last night.
I check Photos this morning and all my photos are in the recently deleted part of Photos.
What is the deal?
I thought when I was importing photos from my iPhone it was going to Photos, NOT iCloud. And even if I made that mistake, where are the physical files stored if Photos is not the place to do this?
I take a picture with my iPhone.
Connect the iPhone to my mac.
Photos opens asking to import photos.
I select Import and Delete All. (this way I free up storage on my phone from photos I don't need saved.)
I've done this for every photo; I have taken about 500 of them. I recently ran out of iCloud storage. I thought "That is weird, I thought I turned off iCloud for Photos" but apparently I did not.
So, what I did was login to www.icloud.com and deleted all the photos out of that storage. I had Photos open on my macbook open at the same time to make sure I wasn't deleting anything from my iCloud account that I didn't have stored in Photos. This was last night.
I check Photos this morning and all my photos are in the recently deleted part of Photos.
What is the deal?
I thought when I was importing photos from my iPhone it was going to Photos, NOT iCloud. And even if I made that mistake, where are the physical files stored if Photos is not the place to do this?
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Dang. OK. I will try this out.
So going forward, each time I take a picture on my phone, plug it into my macbook, Photos opens and I can import all my photos to the program. Basically this will keep a hard copy of the photo on my macbook, right?