When we opened the Photos app and told it open the photos library on the external drive it went to a loading screen which told us what percentage of the photos library had loaded. The photos library is some 4.7 Terabytes in size on the external drive. We then brought it home and plugged it in to the external photo storage hard drive to open up the photos library.

We took it to the local Apple store and they were able to reinstall the operating system and restore files from the Time Machine backup. Recently there was a problem, and the iMac did not boot up. When the photo collection started getting too large for the internal hard drive (which is one terabyte) we moved it to an external USB hard drive which is 6 terabytes in size. The computer is an older iMac - a 21.5 inch slim body iMac from 2015 I think. My wife ( ) is the main nature photographer and iNaturailst user of the family, and uses an Apple iMac computer to manager her extensive photo collection. It does however affect my wife’s ability to post observations on iNaturalist and I wondered if someone here might be able to help.

This isn’t a specifically iNaturalist question so apologies if it doesn’t fit on these forums.

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