Asking for a friend. Seriously. I have a new MBP M1 Pro with a 2 TB SSD so I have plenty of space for my Photos library.
But this friend has a MacBook Air with 256 GB SSD. Her Photos library has, as of today, completely filled her 512 GB SD card volume that she has been using, and she can’t open up Photos anymore.
She also has a Time Machine backup on an external HD.
What are her best options?
(1) She can, I suppose, get a larger SD card and restore to it from Time Machine? I heard SD cards are no longer recommended for Photos libraries though. Is that right?
(2) She could get a 2nd external drive and connect it (she’ll probably need a hub) and move her current Photos library from the SD card to the new drive.
(3) She could increase her current 200 GB iCloud subscription to a 2 TB subscription and turn on disk optimization. But… in that case she wouldn’t have a complete backup of her photos anymore, and there’d be no point in using Time Machine, right?
Any ideas?
Thanks.