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Time Machine restore of large Photos Library to new Mac

Backing up and restoring Photos Library when getting a new Mac


Hi, I have an iMac from 2019 running Sequoia and am planning to get a new Mac, likely a Mac Mini, in the coming months.


My Photos Library.photoslibrary file is 323 GB, containing 15+ years of photos. I do have the most important ones backup on external drives. And I do Time Machine backups.


My question is, with the size of that file, am I ok trusting Time Machine with a restore? Or is there any reason I might not want to do a Time Machine restore and try to do a manual backup and restore of this file?

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