How To Download Photos From Icloud To An External Drive Usb Drive

Download icloud for windows and find the icloud folder in your file explorer.

How to download photos from icloud to an external drive usb drive. If it is your first time to log in on this computer your iphone will receive a verification code. Manually download all the files from apple s icloud website to a folder on your pc and then copy paste or move them to your usb drive. Then connect your external hard drive to the computer via a usb cable copy and paste the downloaded photos to it. If you have less than 1000 photos you can follow the steps below to select all icloud photos and download them to an external hard drive. Plug in your external hard drive to your computer via a usb cable.

Step 3 tap done and turn on icloud photos across your devices to initiate an automatic icloud backup. You can create it on the local disk or the external storage device such as usb. After you are signed in click on the photos icon. Click the transferring icon in the lower right corner and click the tab change to choose the destination place of your external hard drive to backup icloud to external hard drive in the pop up window. After removing the files and folders from your computer please close the icloud app.

On your iphone navigate to settings apple id icloud photos and toggle icloud photo library on. If you drag to a folder icon it becomes highlighted to confirm that the item you re dragging will go into the folder. Note that it is not recommended that you use the root of the local drive or partition for the new icloud drive folder location. Drag files from the desktop or a folder window on your computer to the icloud drive window or a folder icon in the icloud drive window. In icloud photos switch to photos tab press command a to select all photos and click on the download icon.

Then you can download icloud photos 1000 photos or less. After you have downloaded the photos from icloud on your windows pc or mac you can start to transfer them to your external hard drive. Create a new icloud drive folder in a different location. If you want to select all photos on icloud you can tap ctrl a. Then copy the photos from your pcs icloud folder and paste them to your usb drive.