When I first updated the OS I chose not to use Photos, I liked iPhoto. Now I am trying to switch to Photos, but the importing process isn't working.
I opened Photos and went to File - Import and chose my iPhoto Library. After some time, it finished but it said that there were 1,500+ pictures that it couldn't import because of the missing meta date or file type or some such nonsense. It listed the pictures but wouldn't let me copy the list. All of the pictures in the iPhotos library were either taken with an iDevice or my Canon camera.
So now I have Photos working with 1,500 pictures not inside of it, and I don't know which ones. What the heck am I supposed to do?? I would like 100% of my pictures uploaded to Photos.
EDIT: OK< I think I corrected it by closing Photos, then pressing Option and opening it again and choosing the iPhoto library. It imported that and now it shows all pictures in Photos.
But now I have the old Photos library (with the missing pictures), the new Photos library, and the iPhoto library.
Can I deleted both the bad Photos library and the iPhoto library?
EDIT 2: So now the problem is that I have to switch the now Photos library to the "System" library. But it seems as if that will put doubles of a few thousand pictures into the iCloud Photo Library.
So just to reiterate, the first Photos library doesn't have 1,500 of the pictures I need, but that is currently the system library and it is what is being uploaded to iCloud now. I made a second Photos library (by importing a different way) which has everything, but that is not the system library so it doesn't use iCloud. I would like to make it the system library, but then it seems like it will double the images that are already in the cloud.
Any advice?
I opened Photos and went to File - Import and chose my iPhoto Library. After some time, it finished but it said that there were 1,500+ pictures that it couldn't import because of the missing meta date or file type or some such nonsense. It listed the pictures but wouldn't let me copy the list. All of the pictures in the iPhotos library were either taken with an iDevice or my Canon camera.
So now I have Photos working with 1,500 pictures not inside of it, and I don't know which ones. What the heck am I supposed to do?? I would like 100% of my pictures uploaded to Photos.
EDIT: OK< I think I corrected it by closing Photos, then pressing Option and opening it again and choosing the iPhoto library. It imported that and now it shows all pictures in Photos.
But now I have the old Photos library (with the missing pictures), the new Photos library, and the iPhoto library.
Can I deleted both the bad Photos library and the iPhoto library?
EDIT 2: So now the problem is that I have to switch the now Photos library to the "System" library. But it seems as if that will put doubles of a few thousand pictures into the iCloud Photo Library.
So just to reiterate, the first Photos library doesn't have 1,500 of the pictures I need, but that is currently the system library and it is what is being uploaded to iCloud now. I made a second Photos library (by importing a different way) which has everything, but that is not the system library so it doesn't use iCloud. I would like to make it the system library, but then it seems like it will double the images that are already in the cloud.
Any advice?
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