I made the external Photos library the System library, re-enabled iCloud for that library and then deleted the library on the iMac's internal SSD. Should have freed up over 400GB of storage.

Nope.

I guess it's all in snapshots because of Time Machine. Eventually, I guess, those will all age out as the backup on the dedicated Time Machine drive will hold whatever the archival version is.

I'll give it a few days and see what happens.

I do like the ability to search for text in images in Photos. I recalled taking pictures with my phone of a lot of my dad's service record. I needed his DD-214 as part of the effort to get Mom some help from the VA. I entered DD-214 in the search field and it was the first image in the result.

It's nice when something works.

Originally posted at Nice Marmot 16:13 Tuesday, 23 April 2024