photos library transfer to an external hard drive
How to transfer photos from a Mac to an external hard drive?
MacBook Pro 15″, OS X 10.11
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Move your Photos library to save space on your Mac – Apple Support (UK)
Pay particular attention to the format of the drive, setting the ignore ownership flag, and making sure it is a locally connected drive (no ethernet, no wifi)