Hi all,
I’m in the process of beginning to back up all my photos to a couple of external hard drives and have a question regarding file sizes.
When looking at a particular photo, the file size in the photos app on iOS and MacOS is showing as 3MB (see screenshot). However, when I export on my Mac using the export unmodified original option, it splits it into two files (photo and a 3 second movie which is obviously the Live Photo part). However the image comes in at 3MB and the movie is 4MB meaning a total of 7MB. Yet the photos app only sees it as 3MB? Why is the photos app giving a false figure?
When taking into account iCloud storage (I have 6TB), is this one photo taking up 3MB of storage or 7MB of storage?
Thanks!
I’m in the process of beginning to back up all my photos to a couple of external hard drives and have a question regarding file sizes.
When looking at a particular photo, the file size in the photos app on iOS and MacOS is showing as 3MB (see screenshot). However, when I export on my Mac using the export unmodified original option, it splits it into two files (photo and a 3 second movie which is obviously the Live Photo part). However the image comes in at 3MB and the movie is 4MB meaning a total of 7MB. Yet the photos app only sees it as 3MB? Why is the photos app giving a false figure?
When taking into account iCloud storage (I have 6TB), is this one photo taking up 3MB of storage or 7MB of storage?
Thanks!