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The rest I might save in an attached outside hard drive&#8230;but I do not want to clog up my Mac with a bunch of images.  In fact, once I have further evaluated the ones I import into Photo, I delete the ones I end up not using and then go in and periodically delete the Recently Deleted folder.  I try to keep my Mac more than 50% empty to keep my processing speeds up.<\/p>\n<p>From there, I select the few I want to edit in Photoshop.  I have a folder on my desktop that is titled ToLRFeb2020 or whatever, and I export them to that folder.  From that folder, I then Import them into Lightroom.<\/p>\n<p>or<\/p>\n<p>You can put your whole card worth of photos on your desktop and import them directly to Lightroom from there.  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