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pamela_astara

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Jul 20, 2021
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Greetings Good People.

I am having a bear of a time reclaiming my 43k+ photos and videos from ICloud back to my IMac (10.12.6). I have plenty of memory onboard, but the process of downloading 43k originals to my Mac is taking forever and eating up all of my data allowance.

I ultimately want to turn off the ICloud syncing of photos & movies permanently so I can have free offline access. FYI, I haven't updated my OS in quite a while because I don't want to lose my many legacy apps.

Is there a quick and easy way to batch download the photos and movies from ICloud and maintain the complicated album and folder structure I have created over these many years? Perhaps there is a third party app I can use?

Thanks in advance.
 
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