picture for OS X made a big encroachment — some might say a volcanic crater . While the software has Brobdingnagian improvement in swiftness , it come with a batch of change , some bump in get started , and a few bugs . Inlast week ’s Mac 911 , I covered merging iPhoto and Photos library and a tip on pausing iCloud Photo Library sync . Jason Snell last weekalso explain how to use Photoswith Automator , the limit of geotagging , and hard link in Photos .
One update from last calendar week : Fat Cat Software has already releasedPowerPhotos 1.0($20 ) to work with new Photos libraries , but the first version does n’t let you merge depository library . The developer is thinking about adding that feature in a future discharge . For now , you need to unite iPhoto library first via the ship’s company ’s $ 30iPhoto Library Manager(includes PowerPhotos in that damage ) , or one of the other techniques described in my and Jason ’s column last workweek .
( Also tune in to the Macworld podcast this week for a discourse of Photos ’ issues with me , executive editor Susie Ochs , and even Macworld contributors Jeff Carlson and Joe Kissell . )
Photos questions
Many users enquire similar questions , which I ’ll consolidate here .
If I spell my iPhoto library into Photos , should I delete my iPhoto library?There ’s no need to , because as Jason manoeuvre out in his pillar last hebdomad , Apple apply Unix strong radio link , which allow a single Indian file to be referenced from multiple places without duplicate it on the same hard drive . So you ’re not using more storehouse for the original images , which make up the volume of a exposure subroutine library . However , deleting the iPhotos librarywon’tdelete the picture that are intemperately link to your new Photos library .
iPhoto disappeared or ca n’t be kick upstairs after I installed Photos . What do I do?Several readers noted this problem via email and Twitter . In some pillowcase , it disappear from the Dock . In others , it either had somehow been deleted from the Applications leaflet or , if out of date , could n’t be upgraded to a Yosemite compatible version . Use the Mac App Store to re - download iPhoto .
iPhoto can be re - downloaded onto a information processing system with Photos installed by using the Purchases check in the Mac App Store . ( get through to enlarge . )
Launch the Mac App Store , and click the Purchases tab , as iPhoto no longer appear as an choice in the main catalog . You may need to scroll to find it . If it ’s pronounce Install , click that . If there ’s an Open recording label next to it , dawn Open , and if it launches successfully , it ’s still available to practice . If iPhoto reject to launch , find it in the Applications brochure , delete it , and empty the chicken feed . Return to the Purchases tab and click Install . The late Yosemite - compatible version will install .
Do I have to use iCloud Photo Library?No ! You do n’t . ( You do n’t even have to instal and expend Photos . ) It ’s optional . If you do n’t enable iCloud Photo Library in Photos > Preferences > iCloud , you’re able to still maintain isolated Photos libraries on any Mac .
Wait , didMy Photo Streamdisappear?Also a no . In the same preferences dialogue , you’re able to enable or stop the feature . My Photo Stream syncs late photos ( not TV ) between all iOS and OS Adam devices logged into the same iCloud history and have the option enabled . It observe as many as 1,000 of the most late photos on iOS devices , and unlimited number in Photos for OS X. The iCloud servers keep just the last 30 days of pictures , and does n’t count these images against your iCloud storage limit .
Do I have to spell everything from an iPhoto program library into Photos?Yes . you’re able to export images or use Fat Cat ’s above - mentioned iPhoto Library Manager to pull in just specific figure of speech , but you ca n’t choose just sure albums or consequence .
I had one enumeration of photos in Aperture or iPhoto and another in Photos . How do I figure out what ’s missing?I and others definitely see change in photo count ! One reviewer say just upgrade to Yosemite changed his Aperture photo tally without Photos being necessitate at all . This may stanch from depot improvements that reckon photo more accurately or the remotion of duplicate .
The only sound way to know ? Export all your images from iPhoto or Aperture and seek to import them into Photos , which is design to recognise duplicates by characteristic — creating a kind of signature for a filing cabinet rather than look at its name and modification appointment . It ’s an ugly resolution , and it would have helped if Apple had endanger more data about a program library conversion from Aperture and iPhoto to Photos , such as stating “ 1,300 duplicates transfer ” or “ 1,000 picture not import . ”
Did Photos kill my metadata?Photos is n’t supporting the display of some metadata , such as extra fields created in Aperture . However , it does n’t modify the original files on moment , so after update that ameliorate metadata access or exportation with EXIF metadata includedshouldinclude all of your original information .
Where did the single-valued function go?While you ca n’t view a map with all your ikon any longer , you’re able to reckon any moment that contains geotagging information on a mapping . In the principal photograph eyeshot , keep clicking the left arrow at the upper leftfield to get to large group of moment until you see a place name or names next to the date range . Click that and it render any geotagged photos in that moment on a single-valued function . you may zoom all the way to the Years scene and see a year ’s deserving on a mapping at once .
About This Mac reveals how much storage OS X really mean your parkway are using . limelight can by chance deform this .
Photos say I do n’t have enough storage space , but I have passel ! What gives?According to some users , Spotlight can mess up OS X ’s useable storage deliberation , leading picture to say there ’s not enough memory . Select > About This Mac , and click the Storage tab . Does the drive ’s sum less barren space catch what the Finder says is usable ? If not , launch the Spotlight preference dose , click the Privacy tab , and drag the volume in . This will disable indexing and reports bespeak it can prepare the problem when you essay to commute the iPhoto depository library again . After importing , just delete the cause from the Privacy yellow journalism to re - enable Spotlight indexing on it .
What go on to my Smart Albums?Several readers report problems with import Smart Albums and have them fail to make for correctly ; duplicated Smart Albums ; and miss ones . We ’re still looking into that .
More specific questions
Brandon writes , “ My married woman has an iMac and I a MacBook , and we both have our own Apple IDs . presently all our photos are in iPhoto on the iMac . We only want to have / maintain / leverage iCloud space for a undivided large family photograph library . Is this a possible action with the new Photos app ? ” Michael Beatrice asked a similar doubt about using the same program library with different iCloud account .
Sadly , Apple continues to put “ kin ” in quotation marks . You ca n’t purchase a unmarried amount of iCloud storage , pool images , and sustain images with separate Apple ID ( or iCloud logins ) . you’re able to have separate library and use iCloud Photo Sharing to invite multiple people to contribute to shared record album , but you have to then choose which project to include — there ’s no automatic synchronisation .
Peter would favour to maximize his 256 GB SSD storage on his Mac and would prefer to salt away no picture there , but just practice it as an uploading conduit . He asks , “ In the iCloud option you have the ‘ Optimize Mac Storage ’ that I guess should tally my pauperism , but it says that ‘ Originals will be store on this Mac if you have enough store space . ’ … Will it fill up my 256 GB as long as there is free storage ? ”
The iCloud preference in photograph let you choose to keep back and download full - resoluteness images for any prototype in the iCloud Photo Library , or just little versions for thumbnail as blank space requires .
As far as we can differentiate , yes — yes , indeed . However , in practice , it ’s unlikely as , when you pick out to optimize , pic will dump the high - resolution version of file that have been synced as blank fills . It only downloads them again if in Photos you desire to view them at full size ( by clicking them in a perspective ) , as contradict to seeing the thumbnail in a moment , album , or search answer .
Disabling iCloud Photo Library in iOS allows you to to use iTunes to sync albums and folders from OS X to your iOS devices .
You could force this scheme by sync everything to iCloud Photo Sharing , then erase the subroutine library entirely , then allow Photos to synchronize down just the thumbnails .
Pete Roberts remark , “ I used to create albums in iPhotos and then synchronize via iTunes selected albums to our iPads . Not any more with Photos ! And I do not want to expend iCloud . ” Check that iCloud Photo Library is n’t enable on your iPads . When you get in touch an iOS machine to iTunes and select that machine , the Photos particular in the navigation bar , when selected , will also tell you that “ iCloud Photos is On . ” Disable this , and you’re able to once again synchronise .
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