Synchronize photos between devices

Hello world.

I have two questions. I searched on the web and this forum for an answer, but I'm not really sure if the ones I found are good for me.

I have a Macbook Pro, iPad, iPhone and iMac.

I keep all my photos on the iMac (the "master computer"), and I have photos iCloud that library enabled. I chose to keep the originals on the iMac, because it is the main computer and I have a lot of disk space.

Two mobile devices are fairly simple: they receive all the pictures and download those I shot with them.

The problem is the Macbook.

I really want to have my library "on the go" on my laptop, but I'm afraid to use the library of Photos synchronized to iCloud. I don't want to fill my ssd.

I activated the second option, which is to optimize disk space. But I don't know if he does something.

It always download the originals of the pictures and then don't delete them when there is a shortage of disk? I would not like that.

Is there an alternative? I would have all my pictures, but not if it costs me a lot of disk space (90 GB, more or less).

Could I create a virtual disk and then put the library there, so Photos it's short on the disc?

I activated the second option, which is to optimize disk space. But I don't know if he does something.

Optimized versions of the photos masters not stored until it reaches a certain level of free space on the hard drive.  Therefore all the new photos will be optimized.  If you reduce the free space through other types of files, I think that the Photos will begin to optimize the full master sizes of existing photos in the library to create a minimal amount of free space on the startup disk. I don't know what is the size of the space.  Users have mentioned that their library of Photos found in about 10% the size of the original library in some cases.

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