Backstory:
I have about 23,000 pictures in my Photos library (synced to iCloud). About half of them are old photos from physical photo albums that I have scanned and added to the library. Ive gone through to change the date of each of these photos to the approximate year it was taken for sequential OCD, and I went through and manually added faces to the people, along with locations where they were taken (Photos didn't recognize a lot of the faces so it was a very manual process).
After I finished, basically some of the faces were undone, probably about 1000 pictures or so. (I know because I also used tags and created smart albums to detect anything that is off). So settings-wise, I have the option enabled to download the originals to my Mac, this is also my iCloud photo library. Every few months I fix those 1000 pictures, but as soon as I do, there are more that undo (not sure if the iOS photos app is making overrides with their automated face stuff). But so for some reason I tried to repair my library, and now several thousands of pictures had the people metadata wiped. Now going through manually adding them again, when I hit "add person" and move the balloon over their face, and type their name, the balloon jumps back to the center of the picture. Eventually getting out of the picture and back in, does have it set to the right location. But my conclusion is that this library is unstable.
Next Steps:
Instead of trying to keep repairing this library, I want to try and replace it. Is there a way that I could export all the contents of this library to a new one? But still keeping all of the tags, people, locations, smart albums, etc. Anyone have any advice on how to do this?
Or any other options or suggestions to try would be great.
I have about 23,000 pictures in my Photos library (synced to iCloud). About half of them are old photos from physical photo albums that I have scanned and added to the library. Ive gone through to change the date of each of these photos to the approximate year it was taken for sequential OCD, and I went through and manually added faces to the people, along with locations where they were taken (Photos didn't recognize a lot of the faces so it was a very manual process).
After I finished, basically some of the faces were undone, probably about 1000 pictures or so. (I know because I also used tags and created smart albums to detect anything that is off). So settings-wise, I have the option enabled to download the originals to my Mac, this is also my iCloud photo library. Every few months I fix those 1000 pictures, but as soon as I do, there are more that undo (not sure if the iOS photos app is making overrides with their automated face stuff). But so for some reason I tried to repair my library, and now several thousands of pictures had the people metadata wiped. Now going through manually adding them again, when I hit "add person" and move the balloon over their face, and type their name, the balloon jumps back to the center of the picture. Eventually getting out of the picture and back in, does have it set to the right location. But my conclusion is that this library is unstable.
Next Steps:
Instead of trying to keep repairing this library, I want to try and replace it. Is there a way that I could export all the contents of this library to a new one? But still keeping all of the tags, people, locations, smart albums, etc. Anyone have any advice on how to do this?
Or any other options or suggestions to try would be great.