Thank you so much for the kind words @Kanwal Siddiqui! My whole goal for this channel is to help others! Thanks so much for watching! If you haven’t already, please support me by subscribing! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! If you know someone who may benefit from this video, feel free to share it along!
I don’t think this was explained very well. I think it needs to be redone or somebody new with a new way of explaining. Shame on Apple for not making it that user-friendly.
The fact I need to watch a 26 minute video to understand how to have all my photos in one place tells me Apple got this so terribly wrong (very rare that Apple gets this stuff wrong I have to admit). What an incredibly frustrating experience given I have two libraries well over 100gb big. Having said this I’m incredibly grateful that you took the time to make this in depth video - thank you, this was exactly what I was looking for!
I hear you @JDoerp! Apple sometimes does seem to overthink some things and make it more difficult than it needs to be. I'm really happy this was helpful for you though! Thanks so much for watching! If you haven’t already, please support me by subscribing! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! If you know someone who may benefit from this video, feel free to share it along!
I agree. I am furious. This has taken me since July and intensive research to figure out agonizingly about protecting my data and trying not to lose my photos. Trying to wrap my head around this foreign language that is tech. I have 2TB full on iCloud to transfer of personal vlogs and videos. I am trucking on.
@Joel Feld - You are an absolute life saver! This helped me merge/organize over 120,000 photos for my father in law who is a photographer hobbyist. I merged his library from his old iMac 24" as well as his old iMac 27" onto his brand new Mac Mini M1. I ended up choosing the PowerPhotos paid option because of the hundreds of albums he has in each library. PowerPhotos did the vast majority of the work for me. Thanks again really appreciate the crisp delivery of information!
Hi @Steven Nekava! Looks like you've been busy! 120K photos is a task indeed and I'm so happy I was able to assist in some way shape and form! Thanks so much for watching and appreciate the support!
@@Learnwithjoel Gotta tell ya... That software saved me from having to re-create almost 1,000 albums for those 120,000 photos! It was almost magical. Thanks again!
Hey Mate A question if I could ask please. Apple support couldn’t answer. I’ve updated to a MacBook Pro 2tb ssd 24gb ram. I used migration assistant connected from old (2012) MacBook to new my (2022) Now the old MacBook in finder is says 440gb of photos. New MacBook is saying 300gb in Finder. I’ve been through ever file or folder, each and every one are identical, but overall size differs. Next try was, export whole 2012 library to external hard drive. And the same, 300gb. Last of all, I did export iPhoto library to finder too, with no difference. Any help from You or anyone else would be greatly appreciated.
Hi @TasTube! I've done many migrations from Mac to Mac, Time Machine to Mac and occasionally PC to Mac. I would not expect the sizes to be identical. There are hidden folders and files on every Mac in addition to preference files and files that can be cached down to older Macs. More times than not, this information could be hidden and would not be included within the migration from old Mac to new Mac. I would look at your core file locations, such as your Desktop, Documents, Movies, Pictures, Music and Downloads and make sure the content there has been transferred. That is the important stuff. My personal preferences over the years now is to not even do a migration. When I get a new Mac, I literally sign in with my iCloud account and and all my files from Desktop and Documents come over. As far as my photos, It syncs through Apple Photos. Anything else syncs through iCloud Drive or I manually copy via an external hard drive. I like this method because it's sometimes nice to get a fresh start and not bring over any temporary or cached files from older outdated software that could have been used. As far as exporting your photos out of iPhoto, I would bring over the whole library and it should update it to the new Apple Photo library format. I hope that helps! Thanks so much for watching! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you haven’t already! If you want to support my content click THANKS below or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!
@@Learnwithjoel Hi again Joel. Sorry for the late reply, (life's so busy) First of all many thanks for your detailed response and extremely rapid response, I really do appreciate your help. I went through every folder in "Pictures" in Finder, deleted each folder at a time, from my old MacBook after check "Get info". I'm left with just one file. Called, (Photos Library) It does differ in size from the new MacBook. I stopped using the MacBook iPhoto app years ago. And begun using "Image Capture" to transfer from my iPhone to MacBook. Is it safe to delete this file from both MacBooks ? or will I erase photo's that were transferred to old MacBook? Please. I don't use iCloud, other than the free 5GB for really small stuff. Thanks again for everything, Tas
You are right @Christopher Coffey, it does not explain about organization for chronological order. When you're within Apple Photos, you have the ability to organize by date and chronological order within the library itself. Merging two libraries is just getting all of your photos in one central location. When you open Apple Photos, you can click the Library in the top left of the Application. From there you should have four main options across the top center for Years, Months, Days, and All Photos. That's where everything will be in chronological order. I hope that helps! Thanks so much for watching! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel! If you want to support my content click THANKS below or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!
5.52: if you "export photos" instead of exporting unmodified originals want to be exporting much lower quality images? Given that the unmodified original versions are always larger in file size than the export photos method
Hi @nounix! No, not necessarily. the unmodified original will not always be higher quality. Check out the video below. It goes through every export option in Apple Photos. EXPORTING your Apple Photo files on your MAC - EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-aiIiFePcRy4.html Thank you so much for taking your time to watch this video. It is greatly appreciated! If this video has been beneficial, I would be honored if you would consider sharing it with your social media network and expressing your gratitude for its assistance. Kindly subscribe if you have not already done so. Your continued support is greatly appreciated.
Hey - what about LIVE PHOTOS using the first method (export) - i want to keep them going and use them. If I pick "unmodified original" on export - should i save and include the .xmp file too? Do you have a video about that too? Thanks for the great explanation though - just using the live function pretty much on each photo so I need that info please 😅 great video btw - thank you!
Great question @nuchoices! I did just recently post a video dedicated to exporting photos from Apple Photos and I do discuss Live Photos! Long story short, you most likely do not need the .xmp file. But watch the link below and it should help! Check it out already if you haven't and I'm hoping this will answer your question! EXPORTING your Apple Photo files on your MAC - EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-aiIiFePcRy4.html Thanks so much for watching! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you haven’t already! If you want to support my content click THANKS below or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!
Hi @nuchoices! I'll copy my same response here incase you don't see the other comment! I did just recently post a video dedicated to exporting photos from Apple Photos and I do discuss Live Photos! Long story short, you most likely do not need the .xmp file. But watch the link below and it should help! Check it out already if you haven't and I'm hoping this will answer your question! EXPORTING your Apple Photo files on your MAC - EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-aiIiFePcRy4.html Thanks so much for watching! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you haven’t already! If you want to support my content click THANKS below or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!
Joel, I am wondering if this will work with the old app "iPhoto" merging into newer photos app I didn't hear you mention iPhoto specifically and i'm nervous to lose all those photos
Never mind so sorry - I started your tutorial over again to listen to the 4 options very carefully and I saw that at 11:35 you did specifically mention using method 2 for really old iPhoto libraries!! Thank you!!
Hey @M Davis! So when Apple released the new Apple Photos and discontinued iPhoto, the libraries themselves should actually upgrade... So for example, if you have an older iPhoto Library on your computer and you upgrade the Operating System to something newer like Big Sur, when you open the iPhoto library, it will actually open in the newer Apple Photos and actually duplicate it after it upgrades. Most don't realize this happens and then they're taking up twice the storage on the computer. But regardless, with the older library you should always be able to access the original pictures by using the Show package Contents method. Hope that helps and answers your question! Thanks so much for watching and I appreciate the support!
Oh good @MD432! Happy you were able to find the answer in there! Yeah, also keep in mind that the older iPhoto Libraries will upgrade themselves when you open them in a newer operating system! Thanks so much for watching! I appreciate the support!
hey I'm wondering, can you upload a .mp4, .heic, .hevc files onto iphotos into album from a Mac? and will that file when you moved a specific file onto iPhotos, show up on my iPhone too?
Hi @itimdesigner! You should have no problem uploading those formats into an iCloud Photo Album on your Mac. If you have iCloud Photos syncing turned on, they should then also appear on your iPhone. Below are the file formats quoted from the Apple Support article also listed below: "This includes HEIF, JPEG, RAW, PNG, GIF, TIFF, HEVC, and MP4 as well as special formats you capture with your iPhone or iPad, like slo-mo, time-lapse, 4K videos, and Live Photos." Set up and use iCloud Photos support.apple.com/en-us/HT204264 I hope that helps! THANK YOU so much for watching! It is appreciated more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you! Please SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!
You know. I didn't really care for the ad thing on the bottom below. I tried clicking on it, and it wouldn't go away. So. I find that annoying. Otherwise. I would have subscribed to your videos.
Hey @Schmidty's Kettle Corn! I get it, the ads are sometimes really annoying. But thanks for watching anyways! I hope you learned something! By the way, your kettle corn looks delicious! Thanks so much for watching! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! If you know someone who may benefit from this video, feel free to share it along!
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i have all my photos in a NAS server (70.000 - 500gb) my library is in the mac folder ( 1Tb ssd ). icloud it's not option for me xD
Sounds like a good setup @NestorOsvaldoAlvaradoVergara! I bet that works well for you! I think I have a little of 1TB of photos/videos syncing in my iCloud Photo library and it works great. THANK YOU so much for watching! It is appreciated more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you! Please SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!
Thanks for the video, not exactly what I’m looking to do, but very helpful to understand how Photos works. I’m trying to figure out how to move a large LightRoom library (many photos taken with an DLSR) to have it managed by Photos. And would that new library in photos all have to be iCloud backed up (using a lot of space). Again, great video, I like how you explained things clearly. Liked and subscribed! 😊
Hi @E Eng! Sounds like if you're looking to use both Light Room and Apple Photos to manage your pictures, Referenced Library may be the thing to look at. It allows you to store your pictures in a file structure and have Apple Photos have access it. I'll link a video below that talks about this concept: iCloud Apple Photo Library VS Referenced Apple Photo Library - the DIFFERENCE & WHY it MATTERS! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PzcnnD5fgow.html I hope that helps! Thank you for your continued support! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please support my channel, by clicking THANKS below, or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!
Excellent video. Can’t understand why Apple doesn’t have how-to videos for the mess they created and charge retail for. I’m more confident and clearer now on how to do this. Thanks for making this!
Thanks again @Ashok P! Apple does have how-to videos, but they really just scratch the surface and don't go into all the odd ball things that can happen in a real life scenario. So that's why I started creating content to hopefully help others with what I have learned over my years of troubleshooting and using these products and services. I hope that helps! Thanks so much for watching! If you would like to support me and the content I’m creating, please feel free to SUBSCRIBE and use SUPER THANKS on the video if you haven’t already! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! If you know someone who may benefit from this video, feel free to share it along!
Joel, I was following exactly and feeling pretty good about things but my computer did not ask me where do you want your photos exported to? So I am just sitting here and don't know how to get it to ask me that question!! HELP PLEASE
Hi @Cris Reep! So were you doing a File > Export out of Apple Photos? Usually whenever you export something, there is a default location of where it exports, but this can sometimes change. If you go back through the export process, but don't click the export button to actually do it, it will usually show the location/folder of where it was exported to. If that doesn't help, I have an older video that may be helpful in regards to where files live on your Mac....I will link it below for reference. THE MOST IMPORTANT APP ON YOUR MAC! - Getting started with The Finder! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-T2M3i652IUM.html I hope that helps! Thanks so much for watching! If you would like to support me and my content, please SUBSCRIBE and SUPER THANKS! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! If you know someone who may benefit from this video, feel free to share it along!
God I hope this help .. my pastor had the nerve to retire And I have photos on this iPad, and on a previous one, and on all the phones but everything is in the cloud. I'd love to be able to go back to 2009 or 10 to pick up some things I'm going to listen and cross my fingers before I called Apple technical to help me. Oh Lord Lord help help help. Gail in Central Florida March 22, 2022
Hi @Gail Remp! Even though the Pastor left, it sounds like he left it in good hands. Keep working at it and I think you'll figure it out! If you have questions, leave comments and I'll do my best to assist! Thanks so much for watching! If you haven’t already, please support me by subscribing! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! If you know someone who may benefit from this video, feel free to share it along!
It amazes me how terrible this is using Apple's software. Does anyone in Cupertino use this program? Really bad is how Photos will work with iCloud but not a NAS. Great video btw.
Hi @Troy Thompson! Thanks so much for watching! Yeah, I think they've greatly improved Apple Photos throughout the years, but for sure needs some more advanced features. I was a huge fan of Aperture, but then they discontinued it. As far as the NAS goes, YES! So frustrating! I have a 16TB NAS at home that I wanted to store Apple Photos library in addition to Final Cut Pro libraries, but they just don't support it. So definitely room for improvement there! Thanks for watching! I appreciate the support!
Great question @Hector Cordoba Tornell! Below is taken directly from Apple's website. In my experience anytime I've change a library to be the system library it has merged everything together. I'll link Apple's support article below: "If you designate a new library as the System Photo Library and then turn on iCloud Photos, the photos and videos in the new library will merge with those already in your iCloud Photos. Additionally, all photos and videos from iCloud will redownload to the device." Designate a System Photo Library in Photos support.apple.com/en-us/HT204414 I hope that helps! Thanks so much for watching! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you haven’t already! If you want to support my content click THANKS below or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!
True, @sidewinder3000, it could have been more helpful if I actually bought PowerPhotos! Thanks so much for watching! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you haven’t already! If you want to support my content click THANKS below or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!
Hi Joel, unfortunately when I merge the libraries I lose the chronological order of my photos, it's a mess, I use Sonoma 14.4.1 and APFS hard disk, libraries are 30,gb, 70gb,100gb Same thing if I download photos from Google Takeout on Mac. Please help! :|
Hi @LorenzoArabia, Photos usually are time stamped within the meta data, means that the date and information about the photo should always be there...unless the photos have been exported without the information or saved from the web in certain ways. I'm running the same Sonoma 14.4.1 What you selecting while viewing in Apple Photos? Are you selected on the Library in the top left of Apple Photos? That always sorts in chronological order with the most current photos at the bottom. If you're viewing photos in Albums, there are different view and sort settings for that. Merging libraries shouldn't affect the main Library, but it could affect previously created albums. Look forward to hearing back! THANK YOU so much for watching! It is appreciated more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you! Please SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!
@@Learnwithjoel. Thank Your for the answer Joel! Yes' I'm talking about the library in the top left. For example after I imported 10.000pics and videos I saw a hug portion of my 2013 pics between my 2023 pics. I don't use albums and I do not need them, I just want my photos back in their chronological order (library). Thank you again for your awesome work!
Joel, how can I transfer my photo on a cd to my computer? I would like to make a photo book of my daughter’s pregnancy and then add the baby pictures. In order to make the photo book I need the pictures from my cd in my computer. I have an apple iPad and an HP computer. I put the cd in the disk drive and the pictures came up in in numbers so how do I actually download so I vacantly get the pictures in my photo library? Please help
Hi @MARY LEBEAU! First off, congrats on your daughter's pregnancy! My wife and I have four kids, so I know the fun you and she will have! Secondly I may not be able to help you much if you only have an iPad and a Windows HP computer. The best way to get photos from your HP to your iPad from a CD would be to put the CD in your HP computer. Then upload those pictures to iCloud and then access them on your iPad. Now before you even go there, where are you making the photo book? Walgreens? Shutterfly? Another website? Or is there a particular App on the iPad that your'e looking to use? Depending on your tool that your using, that may change the method of how and where to put the photos from the CD. I hope that helps! Thanks so much for watching! If you haven’t already, please support me by subscribing! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! If you know someone who may benefit from this video, feel free to share it along!
Hello, congratulations for your video, you helped me a lot. I tried the second option, by moving the originals file to the new library, I thought that it would have brought me also the old albums created in the old library, but unfortunately not. Do you know if there is a way to have them too. Thank you very much. Bye.
Hi @Marco Ghezzo! Unfortunately not. That only brings over the RAW files. Good news though! In macOS 12 Monterey, Apple introduced an option to actually import libraries into one another and that is supposed to preserve the albums! I have a video talking about it that I will link below for your reference: NEW PHOTO FEATURE in mac Monterey - MERGE & IMPORT PHOTO LIBRARIES TOGETHER! It's about time Apple! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-q3-8URjBErc.html I hope that helps! Thanks so much for watching! If you haven’t subscribed already and would like to support me and my content, please SUBSCRIBE and click THANKS below on the video! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! If you know someone who may benefit from this video, please share it along!
Ciao, ti ringrazio per il video. Ho fatto dei casini atroci da quando son passato da iphoto a Foto. 1) Ho salvato il file iphotolibrary 2) ho provato a fare la migrazione su Foto ma senza segnare " importa gli originali " ( quindi le foto non erano complete) 3) Allora ho scompattato le cartelle di Iphoto e non sapendo dove fossero gli originali le ho copiate tutte... 4) ho provato gemini 2 per eliminare i doppioni ma visualizzava tutti i doppioni anche delle immagini Miniature/Whatsapp/pubblicate su facebook e dovevo controllarle 1 ad 1 UN LAVORO ENORME... 5) RISULTATO HO MIGLIAIA DI FOTO E CARTELLE DOPPIE!! Adesso trovo il tuo video, Grazie! Domanda : Se utilizzo il primo metodo verranno riconosciuti i doppioni? verranno cancellati in automatico? oppure è meglio usare l'altro programma? Grazie in anticipo Davide
Joel, I have been working on this very issue for about 4 days. I keep getting confused because I had photos that I had started to export on old computer and then I put it away from exhaustion. I went back to the project and I couldn't remember what I had done. So then I'm back to new computer with photos sitting in picture file, some have been added to PHOTOS and some have not. Old computer has 2 libraries, files, blah blah blah. New computer has 2 libraries, files that refer to old computer and files that contain photos that were never added to a library......... I think. I have duplicates, triplicates, etc. OMG. I just spent hours exporting old computer files to external hard drive. Now I'm tempted to just go back to iCloud solution. That was the original problem... that I couldn't find the imported photos because they weren't in the active photo library. Yikes!!!!! Oh dear! However, your video has given me a new perspective. I think I can do this. Thank you for a well done, articulate and knowledgeable video.
Hi @Vicki Meyer! Thanks so much for watching and I hope this will help with your current situation. Believe me, you're not alone when it comes to what you've just described! Don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions! I am confident you can do it and you'll be successful! Thanks so much for watching and I appreciate the support!
@Vicki @Joel Feld I've had a similar situation. I set the entire library of more than 10k photos to export overnight and woke up to it "done," but on closer examination, not all photos were actually exported. And it doesn't export in order by date which makes it difficult to track which have/haven't been exported. Lots of duplicates happening too... such a headache lol. I'm going to try the "show package contents" method. Good luck!
This tutorial is great but it is old and doesn't cover the new Photos features for importing libraries. Could you please add this in the beginning of the video?
I hear ya @Zee D! It is a little old! It's a little challenging to add video to existing one that is already published! I do have an another video that that covers that topic! I'll link below for reference: NEW PHOTO FEATURE in mac Monterey - MERGE & IMPORT PHOTO LIBRARIES TOGETHER! It's about time Apple! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-q3-8URjBErc.html Thanks so much for watching! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you haven’t already! If you want to support my content click THANKS below or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!
I hear ya @D B! It does seem like a silly recommendation! Thanks so much for watching! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you haven’t already! If you want to support my content click THANKS below or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!
Hi @Gail Remp! Yes, this video is geared for Macs, but it can relate to Apple Photos on an iPad. I have some other videos that may help with he concept of iCloud and Apple iCloud Photos if you haven't watched already. I'll link below for reference: Understanding iCLOUD PHOTOS - Syncing iPhones, iPads, and Apple Computers IN-DEPTH ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-59Yjdbh1Q88.html USING PHOTOS on your iPAD - IN-DEPTH OVERVIEW OF GETTING STARTED ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hLv5X8ITcx8.html I hope that helps! Thanks so much for watching! If you haven’t already, please support me by subscribing! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! If you know someone who may benefit from this video, feel free to share it along!
Great question @TheBigHub! I have not had a need to copy one Photo Library from one Apple ID to a completely different Apple ID. However if needed to, this is what I would do. You would for sure need a Mac to do this. I would copy the Photo Library from Mac 1 (using Apple ID 1) to an external hard drive. Then I would access that Photo Library either on a different Mac using Apple ID 2 or on the same Mac under a different user account that is also signed in with the Apple ID 2. From there you should be able to open the Photo Library (using Apple ID 2) and then make sure that the option for "Use as System Photo Library" is greyed out, meaning that it will sync then to that different iCloud Apple ID account. I hope that makes sense! I haven't actually tested this, but this is where I would start. I'm guessing it should work. Thanks so much for watching! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you haven’t already! If you want to support my content click THANKS below or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!
Completely agree @ivanmytube! PowerPhotos certainly has some changes! Thanks so much for watching! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you haven’t already! If you want to support my content click THANKS below or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!
Hi, (sorry for the translation) congratulations for your videos, they are very useful to me, thank you. Can you give advice or a preference for those who own a Synology NAS between the Photos program and the Synology Photos program? A thousand thanks.
Thanks for the support @WORLD PRODUCTION! That'll keep you busy with 3 libraries of 500GB! You must have some great photos! Would love to see some content!
Hi @devinkroshus5808! You really shouldn't have to move anything when updating from one macOS to another macOS. After upgrading from Monterey to Ventura, you should be able to just open Apple Photos as usual and pickup where you left off. I hope that helps! Thanks so much for watching! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you haven’t already! If you want to support my content click THANKS below or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!
Thanks for the tutorial. I have 5 photo libraries- some of them say they are copies? (eg photo library 3 copy.photos library) some have corrupted files.? Do I merge them all?
Hi @Trish Flower, If you have that amount of photo libraries, and the goal is to condense and consolidate, I would for sure merge them all. You sometimes just have to jump in and do it. Along the way, depending on how old the libraries are, there is sometimes a file that can get corrupted, but if you want to start organizing, the best thing to do to stay sane is get them all in one place and then work from there. I hope that helps! Thanks so much for watching! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you haven’t already! If you want to support my content click THANKS below or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!
You do a superb job of explaining in this and all of your videos. I'm beginning a massive photo project and appreciate your photos videos so much! Thank you!
Hi @Jennifer Media! I do have an older video that walks through steps of turning off iCloud and what happens when you do. I'll link below for reference: HELP! My iCLOUD STORAGE is FULL! - What options do I have?! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wo2JDr4afng.html Long story short, I would identify what is actually taking up space within iCloud. After that figure out if it's files you can delete or download and not keep there. If that is not an option, you would need to think about upgrading your iCloud storage amount. How much storage do you currently have? I hope this helps! Thanks so much for watching! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you haven’t already! If you want to support my content click THANKS below or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!
Looking forward tom trying this. I just purchased a new Mac Studio. Unlike my older computer I only have 512GB and cant have the Photos library taking up 50GB. I have a fast external drive and would like the option of segmenting the libary on 2 drives. Thanks for the informative video. I have not even installed Adobe Lightroom CC yet.
I hope it helps out @Howell Ls! Also very jealous on your new purchase! How's the Mac Studio been so far?! Thank you for the continued support! If you learned something new and want to support my channel, click THANKS! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! If you know someone who may benefit from this video, feel free to share it along!
So far it’s awesome. It’s a game changer with Lightroom Classic 2022 update. I decided to use the primary SSD sparingly. I have a Thunderbolt enclosure with a Samsung 980 Pro housing the Lightroom Catalog/photos and the Apple Photos library and it’s nice and fast. Thanks
Hi @Crystal Daley! So two ways to figure out which library is the Apple Photo system library... 1: If you're in Apple Photos, go to Preferences > General and look at Library location. If "Use as System Photo Library" is greyed out, it means you're currently in the Systems Library. It also tells you the path of where that library lives on your hard drive. 2: If Apple Photos is not open, hold down "Option" on the keyboard while opening it and it will show you a window of which library is the System Photo Library. I hope that helps! Thanks so much for watching! If you haven’t already, please support me by subscribing! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! If you know someone who may benefit from this video, feel free to share it along!
Hi @Pep Reo! Thanks for the kind words! If you have a bunch of Photo Albums created in and Photo Library on your old Mac, and you want it on your new mac, you can do that. You would have to most likely use an external hard drive to copy the photos from one computer to the other. This could result in having multiple libraries on the new mac, which is not necessarily a bad thing. Now if you're looking to just bring the organization of the Photo Albums over to the new Mac, Apple Photos doesn't really export or save just albums. You would have to export the photos from each album to do that. Kind of a pain. I hope that helps! Thanks so much for watching! If you haven’t already, please support me by subscribing! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! Also if you know someone who may benefit from this video, feel free to share it along!
@@Learnwithjoel thanks for the Info. Yes, it’s about bringing the organized photo Albums to the new Mac. Gonna have to recreate the manually. Too bad they can’t simply be copied 😖
Hello Joel thank you for your helpful videos. I still have one question though regarding the last chapter of the video when your merge the libraries using icloud Photos: what happen to your phone when you chose this new library as the system library ? If i understand well it should be now synchronized with your iPhone through icloud! What happen to the pictures that you had on the phone before ? Are they still on the phone AND added to the library on the Mac ? I have on my mac right now a library with a lot of albums and pictures which are not synchronised with my phone and is not the system library for some reason. My icloud Photos is also empty. That being said I would like to synchronize my Mac and Iphone together but I so scared to mess everything up Thank you again :)
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I appreciate the kind words @Peter Dingley! Thanks so much for watching! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! If you know someone who may benefit from this video, feel free to share it along!
I have several old iPhoto libraries from older laptops, etc. that I have managed to move over to my iMac. All of my libraries have been organized into folders and albums. I'd really like to keep them organized that way as I literally have thousands of photos and videos, including slideshows and cards. If I do the iCloud library merge, will those folders and albums remain intact? Will they in all of these examples for merging?
Great question @Fran Barth! Merging Apple Photo libraries with Apple built in way only combines photos. It will not bring over the hard work of the folders and albums you created! Your ticket to success is an App called PowerPhotos. It's about $30 and well worth it! PowerPhotos by Fat Cat Software www.fatcatsoftware.com/powerphotos/ I don't have a video on this yet, but I will eventually. Check out the software though, it works really well and is pretty intuitive. I hope that helps! Thanks so much for watching! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you haven’t already! If you want to support my content click THANKS below or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!
@@Learnwithjoel thanks so much for your quick response and for your detailed explanation. I’ll give the software a try. You’re a gifted teacher! Thanks for the great resources. Happy holidays to you and your family!
@@franbarth3289 I really appreciate that! I've always found it gratifying to help others with technology questions that I've previously struggled with. Might as well share the knowledge and hurdles to prevent others from headaches! I try to get to all comments, but it's hard sometimes! Happy Holidays to you and your family as well!
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LOL...Thanks @Stewart Hughes! I used to work at Apple as a trainer and I've used Apple products for a very long time and I've just learned through a lot of trial and error. Kinda the reason I started this channel, so I could share what I've learned and hopefully others can avoid some of the headaches! :-) The Library concept for Apple Photos does work pretty well, but there is also the option to organize your photos in a typical file folder structure like you do on the windows by referencing the photos, but then it can't intertwine into iCloud Photos. Thanks so much for watching! If you would like to support me and my content, please SUBSCRIBE and SUPER THANKS! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! If you know someone who may benefit from this video, feel free to share it along!
@@Learnwithjoel and don't get me started on mp3 files. Just because I refuse to use iCloud. It's a weird kind of punishment for paying the premium for Apple products, reverse marketing!?
@@stewarthughesstewart Yeah, I've never been a huge fan of iTunes and still have a hard time enjoying Apple Music. Spotify is great though. The nice thing though, iCloud is not required and users don't have to use it if they don't want to.
So with Option #4, Merging with iCloud Photos, I got a couple questions for ya. 1) Does this transfer over all of the album names & the content inside of them? 2) Does this transfer the maximum quality and original file extensions of content as well as all of the metadata, such as the edit history, locations, etc.? 3) Inside of Photos, would "Library" keep everything organized based on their creation date instead of "Recents" which would organize them based on when they were imported? I'd like to keep a chronological progression of my content like from when my dog was a puppy to grown up instead of his life jumbled around lol. Thanks in advance!
I just moved to a Silicon based Mac but one of the issues I see is that it seems that either you get metadata or you get your file folder structure. I imported nearly 15.000 photo's from my old library and it went FAST. But, I do not get folder structure and I lost my tags. And exporting in a file format seems like it might degrade picture quality.. anyway, it should be even easier than it already is.
This is a fantastic video, thank you :) I have quite the stressful project ahead of me. Had a library for many years, and today it's decided to no longer import images. I've tried all sorts of 'repairs' the the usual things, but any attempt to import images and it's telling me the file is unrecognisable. On another library, no such issue. Makes me feel I need to re-build my library. However, it's over 200gb in size and has images/videos, location tags, faces and loads of other things from the past 20+ years. It's going to be a BIG job! Your video has shown me a lot of my options. Not sure how I'll tackle it, but you've helped loads even in terms of just understanding my options.
Hi @Russ Glove! Thanks for the kind words and I wish you success with your library and trying to fix it! Have you tried using a different Mac to "repair" the library? Are you also on the latest Mac OSX and such? I would say that if you've done the repairs on the library, and it still doesn't repair, you final option may be just to recover actual photos through the package contents as you may lose some of album organization you've done, but it will still have location information and it will also have to re-build the faces database. Fingers crossed and best of luck! Hope that helps! Thanks so much for watching and if you'd like to support me by subscribing, I would greatly appreciate it!
Great video. Learned a lot about organising photos in Mac. However, I can't create a new library holding down 'option' and clicking on 'Photos'. It just opens the photos whenever I click on it like this. I'm using MacOS Monterey. What seems to be the problem? Please advise. Thanks
2023..still waiting for apple to provide a simple solution for managing icloud photos and locally saved photos without disrupting photos app. I know they're trying to pushing people to upgrading that monthly icloud storage plan - but this is absurd. The first method is what I currently use and after watching this video it's apparently still the best option for those moving photos off of their icloud to locally stored on the photos app - once you have all the pieces in place, it's not too bad. But it add unnecessary confusion and opens the door for errors. For example, I just managed to save myself from losing 25gb worth of photos and videos. I imported to my local library and noticed weeks later that they would not open. Luckily my photos were saved in my "recently deleted" folder for another 7 days. This was pure luck, bc I was cleaning up space on my mac and would have permanently deleted the "deleted recently" folder if I had noticed it was still taking up that 25gb of space. I usually backup to an external storage, but I'll have to go back and check if I did and if those are corrupted as well. Very annoying apple.
Great video! I’m curious what happens to the albums that have been created in these iPhoto/Photos libraries? So many of my imported photos don’t have the correct creation date due to old digital cameras, etc. I have thousands in correctly labeled albums (because I know when they were taken) but if all those albums go away and the photos are simply lumped together in a merge, I will lose all that organization, yes? 😕
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Thank you so much @computers dot mom! The spotlight is actually a plugin from a company called @motionvfx! In my opinion they have the BEST plugins and templates for creators! It works with Final Cut Pro and Apple Motion! Check out their website: www.motionvfx.com/ I hope that helps! Thanks so much for watching! If you haven’t already, please support me by subscribing! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! If you know someone who may benefit from this video, feel free to share it along!
Hi @David Brown! Are you looking to merge two Photo Libraries together, or merge two photos together for editing purposes? Either way a 27" iMac would for sure be able to do this. I hope that helps! Thanks so much for watching! If you haven’t already, please support me by subscribing! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! If you know someone who may benefit from this video, feel free to share it along!
Many thanks for the video @Joel!! Glad to have found an expert on this subject :-) Perhaps you also know if it's possible to merge "Projects" from different Photos libraries? Merging the actual photos seems quite straight forward with your suggestions in this video, but I have several Projects (e.g. Motif Calendars) that are unfortunately on different computers. Asked Apple the other day, and they don't know...
Great question @Björn Gent! From my experience, the projects don't merge or export well as the project themselves. They're kinda stuck in that Library. I didn't find any good reference of this being possible either. Maybe there's a hidden way within the package contents of the library, but when I looked, it did not seem like an easy way to migrate it out. My best advice would be to keep the main library and then merge photos from a different library into the one that has the most projects to keep. Thanks so much for watching! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you haven’t already! If you want to support my content click THANKS below or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!
Question: My Husband died recently and he has 43,535 photos and 469 videos, he left me as his Apple legacy contact, however this means whenever I open his laptop and/or iPhone it still asks me to sign in with his apple id and then does not recognise this. He seems to have saved on an external hard drive as well as the cloud. I have all apple products as well and pay for additional iCloud space, I also have about 12500 photos on my photos (on the cloud). What is the best way for method of those you outlined to add his photos to my photos. Obviously our whole family history is here and I am worried about losing these.
Yes there is @Hector Cordoba Tornell! The settings to toggle on Hidden Albums is within the Settings of the iPhone. Navigate to the following: Settings > Photos > Show Hidden Album I hope that helps! Thanks so much for watching! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you haven’t already! If you want to support my content click THANKS below or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!
@@Learnwithjoel Well. That actually shows a system album called -Hide album- that has all the photos hidden from several albums; but, if I want to hide those several albums, I can't have those photos organized as albums inside the hide album.
I see what you mean @Hector Cordoba Tornell! I tried to find any work around or option to hide several albums, but it just doesn't seem to be an option. Maybe in a future update or provide feedback to Apple. I do this all the time! Apple Product Feedback www.apple.com/feedback/
Hi Joel. That was a very informative video - It worked!!! Having struggled for months with three libraries I have been able to consolidate to just one!! Many many thanks!!!
Hey @Dave Redknap! I'm so happy this was helpful and you're able to find answers from these videos! Thanks so much for the kind words and support! I appreciate you watching and sharing!
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Thanks. Maybe u can help. My Library on Mac is to big, but i want to conect it with Icloud ( so i can have the new photos from the phone in the library). But i dont want the old pics from the mac to sync with the new ones. Should i move the library in an Album, and let the library free for the newer ones? Is there another way? Thanks
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Funny you say that @Patrick Llaban! Since the launch of the new Mac OSX Monterey, Apple Photos now has the ability to import another Apple Photo Library! It's about time they added this in, but it's finally an option! This would most likely be my most preferred method now as it's the easiest most fool proof. Otherwise my older favorite method would probably be method two; by grabbing all the original RAW images and importing them. My reasoning behind that I personally don't mind if I bring existing edits over and this method would be the quickest method. iCloud can sometimes take forever and using a third party tool, well requires you to use a third party too, and the import/export option from Apple is just plain silly. I hope that helps! Thanks so much for watching! If you haven’t already, please support me by subscribing! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! If you know someone who may benefit from this video, feel free to share it along!
Does it matter when downloading what format the storage drive is formatted to? Access to PC and Mac? i.e. ExFAT or another mac only format? preference or necessity?
HI Joel, great video thanks for sharing, I already use iCloud photos and have all my photos from 2009 to present day on there, I also have an old mac with older photos on dating back to 2001 - 2014 , I would really like to get these photos into iCloud too. Do i need to combine these two libraries first before I go and upload the complete new one? If so is it easy to create a new library from what i already have on icloud?
Hi @Leon Coppola! You wouldn't have to combine the first two first. It really wouldn't matter, the end goal is still the same. Now a few things to think about....After you combine all three, make sure you'll have enough storage for all three to accommodate all libraries with room to grow so you don't have to move it again! Also did you by chance upgrade to the latest Mac OSX Monterey? If you did, they finally added a feature where you can import another Photos Library directly into an existing one! Not sure why that was never possible before, but it's a feature now! Doing this would actually alleviate the need for all the other methods! FINALLY! So in the grand scheme, you really don't have to create a new library, you'll just need to combine them all together and make sure that it's set to be the System Library. I hope that helps! Thanks so much for watching! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! If you know someone who may benefit from this video, feel free to share it along!
Thank you for this great video. Very helpful! I do have a question -- If I am merging two different photo libraries, when I export the first and then import it to the "combined" library, will the metadata for the imported photos keep the photos organized chronologically?
Great question @Cristin Strong! Are you on macOS 12 Monterey? If so, they added a new "import library" option for Apple Photos! I created a video that speaks to this that I'll link below for reference: NEW PHOTO FEATURE in mac Monterey - MERGE & IMPORT PHOTO LIBRARIES TOGETHER! It's about time Apple! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-q3-8URjBErc.html Either way, whenever you merge multiple libraries, the organization won't change. You will still have the ability to organize in chronological order by date. Thank you for your continued support! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please support my channel, by clicking THANKS below, or better yet, share it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!
Hi Joel, excellent video explanation. One question, I know I have duplicate photos in different libraries…when merging will it prompt me to ask if I want to avoid merging duplicate photos?
Great question @Linda Appleby! So you would think that Apple Photos would give you options to merge the duplicates, but honestly I've had mixed results with it being consistently successful! My best advice is to merge all libraries together and then use a tool to find duplicates/similar photos. I'll link another video I created for reference below: HOW TO DELETE DUPLICATE PHOTOS in Apple Photos - IN DEPTH review of software to FIX your Duplicates! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VpQ5kDc3BvQ.html I hope that helps! Thanks so much for watching! If you haven’t already, please support me by subscribing! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! If you know someone who may benefit from this video, feel free to share it along!
Lol. Omg. I wish I had thought about doing a merge a few thousand photos and a few months ago. I’ve been using a duplicate app to scanned and delete my duplicate folders in two separate Photo libraries. These steps are way easier and save much more time.
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Great videos! Informative, concise, keep it moving, provide facts keeping separate from opinion allowing user to choose which method best suits their needs. Excellent. Thanks! Lovely family pic.
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Right on @Jeff Hirata! No wrong way to do it! I'm happy it was helpful for you! Thanks so much for watching! If you haven’t already, please support me by subscribing! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! If you know someone who may benefit from this video, feel free to share it along!
Hi @Nabil F! This video may not do you any good if you only have a Dell computer. This software is specifically made only for Apple computers. I hope that helps! Thanks so much for watching! If you haven’t subscribed already and would like to support me and my content, please SUBSCRIBE and click THANKS near the video! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! If you know someone who may benefit from this video, feel free to share it along!
My wife has 3700 photos and I want to merge them into my 57,000 photos. We have two accounts on our iMac. I tried exporting her photos onto an external drive and then importing them into my photos. They were jpeg format. When I went to import it, photos said it did not accept this format.??? Weird
Hey @Delano Castro! When you say using iCloud may be a problem, what do you mean by that? If you're syncing with iCloud Photos already, you would be using iCloud. I think you would be ok as iCloud you can pick and choose what information you're syncing on what device. I look forward to hearing back from you!
This is going to be a God-send for me. .I will use the iCloud technique ... the last one you discussed. I have everything in the cloud and I have the data storage space with no problem. I will make this work. Or I will at least do the best I can. And sometimes that's all you can do. And I sent a note to a friend of mine who is very Apple savvy, while I was listening to you in the background and spoke to how succinct and clear you are. I think you saved the day. Just like Mighty Mouse used to do when I was a little kid... so we shall see. Again it is very clear and concise. It's all we ask for sometimes in life. Peace. Gail
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Thanks for the very helpful video! Question: So switching which photo library your "system library" is pointing to won't delete any photos already in iClould from old library right?
Hi @Hal McKinney! Great question! Well, kinda...if you're don't have the photos in the current "system library" set to "download the originals" they would be removed from the Mac if they weren't fully downloaded, and then in the new library that you've made into the "system library" would just start to download everything from iCloud. So let's say you have one Photo Library on your Mac that is your current System Library and there's 100 pictures in there. It also shows the identical 100 pictures on iCloud. If the Photos library on your Mac has been set to optimize, then it's going to removed all of those photos and only keep ones that have been downloaded in that library, and then when you create a new library, it's just going to download all 100 photos anyway. Does that make sense? So it kinda deletes photos, but really everything is in the cloud, so it's downloading a new fresh copy once you make a new library and deem it as the new system library. Thanks so much for watching! I appreciate the support!
I want to watch all you videos over and over!!!! Where can I get a list? Also, When you use the import/export functions, what happens to photos that have the same name? What are HEIC files?
Thanks so much @Lillian Zelinski! I appreciate the kind words and support! Everything will be on my RU-vid channel: ru-vid.com If photos have the same name, but everything else about the photo is different, it will still import the photo. I do find that Apple Photos can be terrible at recognizing duplicate photos. That's why I do have software that finds similar and duplicate photos for future use! HEIC is Apple's new file format for photos....It's like a newer version of JPEG or JPG if you recognize that. It's designed to keep the quality of a photo, but have the file size smaller. Hope that helps! Again, thank you so much for watching! I appreciate your support!
Hey @BogdanV! Sorry for the delayed response! So they albums should stick and sync and merge with the new library as they are already there. For a safety net however, here's what you could do just in case. Select all the photos in the album and assign a keyword to them. That way if for whatever reason something doesn't sync, you can easily find them and put them back into an album! Hope that helps! Thanks so much for watching and I greatly appreciate your support!
Joel, I love your videos - excellent work! Thanks so much! Question: I have old iPhotos libraries. Do these instructions work for iPhoto libraries? or do I need to export the images to Photos?
Hi @Myra Williams Ottewell! I really appreciate your kind words! So yes, these same instructions would work. However keep in mind that if you have older "iPhoto Libraries" (not newer "Photo Libraries"), when you open them on a Mac that is updated and has Apple Photos, it will attempt to upgrade that old iPhoto Library to a new Photo Library and you result in having it duplicate the whole library on your Mac. I hope that helps! Thanks so much for watching! If you haven’t already, please support me by subscribing! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! Also if you know someone who may benefit from this video, feel free to share it along!
Thank you soooo much. I had a new iMac last July and was trying to figure out how to import my backup photos in a hard drive to the new iMac. I tried many times and finally able to do it after watching your video. You are lovely. Thank you againnnnnnn.
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Hi @Flora! Thanks so much for watching and I appreciate the support! I'll add that to the list of topics! I haven't done a backup one yet! Thanks for watching!
Eu quero, anualmente, todo início do ano (em janeiro), migrar minhas fotos do iCloud para uma biblioteca no HD externo e apagar todas as fotos do iCloud. Meu objetivo é começar o ano com uma biblioteca limpa (zero megabytes). E também manter minhas fotos em privacidade (agora a Apple vasculha suas fotos 🙁 ). Mas eu quero adicionar as novas fotos na Biblioteca antiga, no HD externo, todos os anos, no mês de janeiro. Se eu entendi corretamente, eu não vou conseguir fazer isso sem eu perder todas as edições, metadados e etc. A melhor solução é fazer upload da minha biblioteca antiga no iCloud. E depois salvar essa nova biblioteca como backup, no HD externo. É confuso, mas é a única alternativa para preservar todos os metadados. Muito obrigado por este vídeo. 🙏🏼
Hi @Gabriel Dorcino! Ok, so let me define your goal to make sure we're on the same page.... If I understand you correctly, your main goal is to use iCloud Photo on all of your Apple Devices, but each year, at the start of the year (January 1st) you want to start with a brand new fresh library with no photos in it so that you can archive the previous years individually and you only want to keep the most current year in iCloud. Does that sound correct? It sounds like you have a work around, although not the most ideal option. I do have an another approach that may work... Assuming you're on a Mac, you could create a new Photo Library. This library would be completely empty with no photos. When you do this, your other library is still connected to iCloud because within the Preferences of Apple Photos it's set to be the "System Library". So with then with the new empty library you could click the option in Apple Preferences to tell it to be the new "System Library". This would then start to download everything from icloud.com just identical from your previous library. But here's what you could do... After you select it to be the system library, go into the settings on an iPhone or iPad (assuming you have one that is using the same Apple ID) and then go to iCloud > Manage Storage > Photos and choose Disable & Delete. This should then delete everything out of iCloud and in return leave you with a new relatively empty library to start the new year with and then the previous library as your archival from the year before. Now keep in mind, this is one crazy work around that could work. If it makes sense and if you were to try, for sure make a backup copy of your library just incase! :-) I hope that helps! Thanks so much for watching! If you haven’t already, please support me by subscribing! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! Also if you know someone who may benefit from this video, feel free to share it along!
@@Learnwithjoel Wow! you really read my comment in portuguese. 💚 thank you so much for your attention. I did exactly what you said. and it worked! is the best alternative currently available. thank you so much. 🙏🏼
Exactly what I needed today! Having 2 libraries has been so annoying! I wasn’t even sure they *could* be merged with the differences between 32 bit & 64 bit systems.
You should totally be able to merge different libraries from various versions @hennahannnah. Also keep in mind that in the macOS12 Monterey the added a new feature to have an option to import libraries into one another. I'll link a video below in reference to that: NEW PHOTO FEATURE in mac Monterey - MERGE & IMPORT PHOTO LIBRARIES TOGETHER! It's about time Apple! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-q3-8URjBErc.html The only downfall is that if you're looking to keep albums and folders intact, that may not be the way to go. Check out PowerPhotos for that! Thanks so much for watching! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you haven’t already! If you want to support my content click THANKS below or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!
When I open my iCloud preferences page I do not see a photos icon. How to I add that icon so its visible like mail and calendar are? Thanks for a great video
Hi @TigerDNF! No, currently Apple provides no way to merge two Apple ID Accounts together. You can currently only change the email address that is associated with one. Below are two videos related to Apple Accounts that I'll link below for reference: How to CHANGE your APPLE ACCOUNT ID to any NEW EMAIL Address! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vBgO5huLtMQ.html How to RESET your Apple Account ID PASSWORD on your iPhone, iPad and Mac! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-66jrHpEag2k.html Thank you so much for taking your time to watch this video. It is greatly appreciated! If this video has been beneficial, I would be honored if you would consider sharing it with your social media network and expressing your gratitude for its assistance. Kindly subscribe if you have not already done so. Your continued support is greatly appreciated.
Thank you Joel. Great. All the time that I should have not wasted taking to Apple Support through 7 of their technicians in helping me out managing just one library that was growing exponentially multiplying files 14 to 24 times, and no one new how to stop it, exporting those files to an external HDD and restart the cloud library. Thank you so much for explaining it so clear and how to FEEL SAFE doing it when you are dealing with 1.9Tb of images and videos. KUDOS to you! I don't know if you are the best but you deserve the first place.
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I couldn't agree more @Stephen Scott! Family is awesome and most important! You're very welcome! Thanks so much for watching! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you haven’t already! If you want to support my content click THANKS below or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!
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