photos/iCloud/iCloud/macstudio/iPhone
Guys, I am not a novice apple user, been using them since 1979 when my school was one of the first to get them in the classrooms (yes I am that old). So I am a bit perplexed about how all this works.
I take photos with my phone, a lot of them ( I am a professional photographer ) they sync to the iCloud based on the setting on my phone. One a month I download everything to iPhotos on the desktop (Mac Studio). I am nearing reaching capacity on my iPhone, been getting the storage is full notice. I understand that if I delete a photo from the phone, it also deletes from iCloud. But since I have the iPhotos on the studio also syncing, will it delete it there as well? I am hoping to off load a lot of photos from the phone but still have copies of them. I suppose I can turn off the syncing on the studio, not sure why I have it on TBH.
Also, where exactly are the photo files stored on the computer? I see them in the Photos Library.photoslibrary, all 525GB, but that requires the app to open them. Is there a place where I can find the actual .jpg file? I am not opposed to dumping everything into an external drive ( I have LOTS of space on RAIDS ) but I would rather have the actual files rather than the .photoslibrary app file.