So from what I understood, if I have Apple Photos on my Mac set up with iCloud it will upload Photos to iCloud and only store a representation locally, thus free local disk space. I have now importet a bunch of folders and my disk only has 112 MB of free space, so I’d assume … Read more
Running Catalina with plenty of internal drive space and external drive space. Photos will download thumbs of images and, if opened, the large version, but not the complete (eg) Live Photo etc. What can I do to convince Photos to download all my iCloud Photo content to my local library? I do not have Optimise … Read more
I love the face detection in Apple Photos, but it is a bit frustrating to never know which Person has been updated and needs confirmation. Currently, I always have to go through each one and even then, sometimes there is a clear “Review” option that appears in a banner at the top, but sometimes there … Read more
I have seen multiple scripts to import files into Mac application Photos organising photos in folders and albums. Like This 2010 (folder) 2010-01-01 (album) 2010-01-02 (album) … 2011 (folder) 2011-01-01 (album) … But I can’t get or change a script to organize my existing pictures like this, by date taken… (no importing only working with … Read more
I upgraded to Big Sur several weeks ago, and since realized that my Photos library was not set to sync with iCloud. I’ve toggled it back on, but the library is a little over a month behind. Unlike earlier versions of Photos there’s no indication of where it is in the syncing process. Earlier versions … Read more
When I connect my phone (Fairphone 3+ with Android 10) to my Macbook (with Catalina) and choose “PTP” in the phone’s USB settings, the phone appears as “FP3” in the Devices section of Photos, but when I click on it Photos shows “No Photos” even though there are photos on the phone (that show up … Read more
I’ve found this piece of script online to automatically duplicate a smart album in a folder (with a name containing <!>) to a normal album in a folder ‘SmartAlbums’ (so it can sync to iPhone & iPad). Unfortunately this script seems to work only for smart albums sitting at top level folders with the name … Read more
I want to transfer my entire photos library from my MacBook to a Windows 10 PC. I am using an external hard drive to transfer, since there is large number of photos (~8k). Is there any way to do this and keep all of the the “Favorite” pictures appropriately tagged? I tried going to File … Read more
Until a couple of months ago, this feature of Apple Photos worked fine on my MacBook Pro. But now whenever I try to let photos find new photos of any person, it immediately says that there is no additional photo to confirm. When I run the same feature on my iPhone, it works just fine. … Read more
Error text: The content of the iPhoto library “iPhoto Library – transfer” has already been migrated to Photos. Open Photos to view your library or use a compatible version of iPhoto to open this iPhoto library. I can’t find the Photos library that was migrated. How can I open this? Answer AttributionSource : Link , … Read more
