

After completing the file download, you can disconnect your drive from Mac. Remember, do not disconnect the external drive.

It will take a couple of hours to download.At first, open ‘Photos’ on Macbook > Preference > iCloud> Check the ‘iCloud Photo Library’ > ‘Download Originals’ to Macbook.To see any external drive’s photo, you have to download the originals to your Mac.Still, there is a difference in performing the process. You may check whether the hard drive is visible or not. Navigate to This PC, then Manage and Disk Management to see if your external drive is visible in Disk Management. If the external hard drive still does not appear in File Explorer, open Disk Management and check. This method is pretty similar to how iCloud users run the approach. Open Disk Management to check whether it appears or not. Method-2: Access the External Drive When There Is No iCloud Connected That is the way where you view pictures on an external drive. Newer Seagate and LaCie branded external drives come preformatted with the exFAT file system, which allows it to be used on both Mac and Windows without. Open ‘Photos’ > Preference> select ‘Use as a System library’. After creating the library, you need to make it your system default iPhoto library to access any time without further issue.Connect your external drive to your Macbook> Click Option > it will ask you to choose a library, choose ‘Create new.’ > Rename its name > Press down arrow > Choose external Drive > ‘OK’ to save it.
