How to copy a library of Photos to iCloud on multiple Macs using external drive

250 GB +, it seems much more efficient to copy my library to a portable external hard drive and then manually copy the other 2 Mac, I want him to.

But I just tried this and the 2nd Mac I copied it to past all night "sending" to iCloud. Which is meaningless because he has just received a very up-to-date copy of the entire library.

I'm worried library iCloud is stupid enough so that it is now useless re-upload the your entire library. Where all he had to do was sync. Dropbox seems to be a lot smarter about what iCloud.

Silent - not at all - when you move the Photos of the library must check that the library is identical to the version of iCLoud - it says downloading but is really check - trary

is the only possible way if can tell what's in the library the ICloud lib complare

probably the best way is to simply use iCloud photo library and do not try to outsmart it - login to iCloud on each system bearing the same Apple ID and turn on ICPL and let it download to each system

LN

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