Windows 10: Windows 10 PC cannot read data (all photos) on external hard drive where photos have been...

All of my photos are stored on an external hard drive and were downloaded from my iMac but my Windows 10 Laptop does not recognise this hard drive.

I am going away for a few weeks and would like to do daily downloads to this hard drive from my PC.


Can someone please tell me how to get my PC to recognise this hard drive?


Thank you and kind regards,

Alan Mason

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Photos and external hard drive problem

Hello,

I have an external hard drive full of photos. I am hoping to link these photos to the Windows 10 Photos app without moving them to the laptop's internal hard drive. I want them to stay on the external drive and, furthermore, want any new photos added (from
my phone, for example) to go to this external hard drive as well.

I have already changed the pathways of where Pictures will be saved to this hard drive.

Anyway, plugged in the external hard drive full of photos and overnight the Photos app pulled found them, organized them by date, etc. All seemed well. Later that day, however, I closed Photos and then removed the hard drive. Later reconnected the hard
drive and started Photos but there was nothing on Photos! The program apparently needs to re-find the photos and rebuild the library every time I plug in the hard drive...this takes hours. Am I missing a process that would allow the Photos app to remember
the library whenever I plug in the hard drive?

Thanks!

 

How do I transfer photos in Windows 10 to my external hard drive

Hi DianeD48

Connect your External Hard drive to your PC

Open Windows File Explorer

On the left, click Pictures

On the right, find the photos you want to transfer to the external drive

Right click those photos or their containing folder and choose 'Send To' - your external drive will be bottom of the 'Send To' list

That's It, wait for those to transfer across . . .

 

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