Can't move Photos library to iCloud Drive.

[Alan Mackey]

I mean, I can move it there no problem but Photos won't let me use it. I can browse its contents using Finder, open files, delete them.. but Photos keeps complaining about using an appropriate filesystem.

Does anyone know of any workaround?

 

[alFR]

AFAIK you aren't supposed to manually move the Photos library folder to iCloud drive: you're supposed to enable iCloud photo library in Photos, then Photos uploads the files for you.

 

[gpspad]

It depends on your settings.

If you choose to store them, photo will keep a copy of them. If you choose optimize it only keeps a small version.

They need to add an "keep an archive of the cloud" option that won't delete the copy on your mac, so you can clean out your cloud w/o loosing the photos.

 

[gpspad]

That would be awesome.

We also need a add location option.