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Photos App Beta Discussion
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Merging Libraries
I have a question about preparing for the new Photos App.
I have cleaned up and organized my current iPhoto Libray on my Mini and would like to eventually merge my iPhoto Library from my MBPro into the one on my Mini.
I know the FatCat software to use to merge them, but my question is would it be better to merge them now before the official 10.10.3 update? Has anyone merged libraries after updating to the Photos App?
I have a question about preparing for the new Photos App.
I have cleaned up and organized my current iPhoto Libray on my Mini and would like to eventually merge my iPhoto Library from my MBPro into the one on my Mini.
I know the FatCat software to use to merge them, but my question is would it be better to merge them now before the official 10.10.3 update? Has anyone merged libraries after updating to the Photos App?
I don't recall Photos beta having a merge function. And I don't believe iPhoto Library Manager is updated to work with Photos. Maybe after the official release?
You can only use one library for synching via iCloud Photo Library if you intend to use that feature. Keep that in mind; you would probably eventually wind up with the same library, in essence, on both machines.
You could always make copies of the libraries and then merge them to see how it goes. If you need them merged, I don't see how doing that now will be detrimental in the future. But that probably depends on why you had different ones in the first instance.
I think i am right in saying if you clean up the library from your MBP then you could just open that with Photos on your MBP and turn on iCloud photo library, so it would merge your libraries in the cloud and they would be mirrored on both machines
This.
iPhoto had an option to delete already imported photos off of my iPhone.
How do I do this with Photos?
all the pictures on iPhone won't download. they have a little exclamation mark by them. Anyone else experiencing this?
So I turned off Photos for iCloud beta on my iPhone and everything is still visible??
same here. It seems like it downloads all photos, even if you tell it to delete during turn off.
I had to connect my phone to image capture and delete 35k photos.
ahh ok. strangely though over 26k of pictures is only taking up 2.6gb?
real confused. I can't even delete the picture from my iphone. even ones that were on there before I synced.
Thanks for the replies. The 2 libraries are different because one was used purely as a iPhone photo dump to get them off our phones and the other one was all photos taken with our old digital camera.
I no longer have the MBPro and am not sure if or when I'll get another one since the Mini and iPad are sufficient at the moment. Hence the reason to merge them into 1 library.
I believe I am going to go ahead and merge the 2 libraries with the iPhoto Library Manager and finish cleaning them up. Then update to the latest iPhoto that was just release to prepare for the upcoming Photos App. Thanks again for the replies.
I am running beta 10.10.3 (newest public beta) and I still have iPhoto. The question is that since my library has already been converted to Photos, do I need iPhoto or should I delete it?
Surprised it's still present after beta install.
Surprised it's still present after beta install.
Um it's probably still there since it's beta software. And iPhoto might still be necessary for some users (I certainly regret the iWorks upgrade..).
BTW, I noticed Apple just issued an iPhoto upgrade (9.6.1) that is designed to enhance compatibility with Photos when migrating libraries.
Yeah, it seems after repairing the library it doesn't sync with iCloud anymore
How do you start fresh with iCloud sync without loosing the current library? (spent quite some time slimming, tagging, organising).
I was having some oddities with number of photos reported differing on devices, so I too tried repairing the library for the hell of it. Sync is broke and it's trying to upload everything again.
Outstanding.
I know it's a beta, but this is going to be going public very, very soon, and these are some serious bugs that are still present.
so my aperture library is 300 meg as i link to the files in the folder structure i like.
i tried the same with photos (uncheck preferences -> copy items to photo library). but the library grows to ~25 gigs. why is it copying (i guess it is) files when I'm telling it not to?
i tried the same with photos (uncheck preferences -> copy items to photo library). but the library grows to ~25 gigs. why is it copying (i guess it is) files when I'm telling it not to?
One issue for me with Photos is that it's running on 3-400% CPU constantly, even when not in use. I have no iCloud services enabled for it. The library is 75 GB, not huge.
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Ok, I have to correct myself. Photos must have been doing some optimisation (for quite some time) I just let it on and now it's down to normal behaviour, idling at 0%.
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Ok, I have to correct myself. Photos must have been doing some optimisation (for quite some time) I just let it on and now it's down to normal behaviour, idling at 0%.
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Import anything that hasn't been imported and then go to Image Capture to delete all the phones from your camera roll.
i have to disable and enable photostream in the settings every time i start the Photo app for it to appear.
at least photostream seems to have fixed itself after disabling and enabling them again on all iDevices. my iPad still had like 300 pictures from early last year on it (they never got deleted after the 1000 limit for some reason) while my iPhone had random pictures from this year that in exchange did not appear on my iPad.
i am also missing the big "map view" like why is it so little or am i missing something?
at least photostream seems to have fixed itself after disabling and enabling them again on all iDevices. my iPad still had like 300 pictures from early last year on it (they never got deleted after the 1000 limit for some reason) while my iPhone had random pictures from this year that in exchange did not appear on my iPad.
i am also missing the big "map view" like why is it so little or am i missing something?
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So I tried Photos.
And I quickly restored my Aperture library from backup and decided to never launch Photos again.
What absolute tripe. "Photos" has less functions that the old iPhoto!
I can see no (even semi-) advanced photo editing tools at all.
Its not even fit to be used as a photo archiving tool, using the same basic method of iMovie and preventing manual moves.
There are no advanced functions, no levels and curves, no color correction, no RAW editing, its a real travesty.
This is the sort of thing I had expected to come out of Redmond. I had expected for Photos to be a thing in between iPhoto and Aperture, but this, this is shareware.
And I quickly restored my Aperture library from backup and decided to never launch Photos again.
What absolute tripe. "Photos" has less functions that the old iPhoto!
I can see no (even semi-) advanced photo editing tools at all.
Its not even fit to be used as a photo archiving tool, using the same basic method of iMovie and preventing manual moves.
There are no advanced functions, no levels and curves, no color correction, no RAW editing, its a real travesty.
This is the sort of thing I had expected to come out of Redmond. I had expected for Photos to be a thing in between iPhoto and Aperture, but this, this is shareware.
Synching without confirmation is just crazy. It mixed porn with my family photos.
I agree.
It surprises me as well. Makes me wonder what the rationale behind this is. What irritates me is that I can't right click a photo and open it in an external editor, like PS.
Photos is like a shareware level photo browser with cloud functionality
Going to chime in with my $0.02 since everyone seems to be having a bad time with it. Besides the initial upload, which I was lucky enough to do a 30gb upload on my Uni net (Google Fiber in AUS!), it's been good for keeping all my personal photos.
Once it was uploaded I updated my iPad Air and iPhone 5 to the 8.3 betas and switched on iCloud Photo Library and selected optimise for the iPhone and full res for the iPad (16gb and 128gb respectively). Also turned off Photostream.
What I've enjoyed so far is being able to go through my entire library and deleted/edit my photo's and then have the update automatically on my other devices without having to plug in and sync. For example when I'm out or chilling I can edit and view ANY photo on my iPhone from a 30gb library on a 16gb device. The editing is simple, yes, but I usually only want to change lighting and colouring a bit anyway.
What I haven't liked or want Apple to implement, is a GOD DAMN GEOTAG. I've sacrificed enough giving up my iPhoto Events/Albums for the "Moments" view, which I guess is ok if your photos all have the proper metadata, but if they don't I at least want to be able to add or change it. Also I hope they have made it so iCloud doesn't upload on your mobile data, because there is no setting I can find for that. They also need to add a Faces view, and in relation to changing metadata/organising, they need to make it so you can do it on mobile & mac, so then we can slowly sort out our libraries on our mobiles when we get spare time anywhere.
Overall I'm happy though and like it, I'm putting faith in that my photos are secure both privately (2 factor authentication, strong passwords, Apple protect me pls) and safely so that I don't need too worry to much about my backups, although I do keep multiple. I'd say it's more for personal use for consumers, because unless you have an awesome internet connection most of the time, uploading multiple large JPEGs or RAWs from a shoot will take forever and possibly lag your net. So I'd probably look at something like Adobe Lightroom for managing photoshoot collections and maybe just put the ones you like into Photos. As I said, I feel it's more for simple personal use anyway.
Once it was uploaded I updated my iPad Air and iPhone 5 to the 8.3 betas and switched on iCloud Photo Library and selected optimise for the iPhone and full res for the iPad (16gb and 128gb respectively). Also turned off Photostream.
What I've enjoyed so far is being able to go through my entire library and deleted/edit my photo's and then have the update automatically on my other devices without having to plug in and sync. For example when I'm out or chilling I can edit and view ANY photo on my iPhone from a 30gb library on a 16gb device. The editing is simple, yes, but I usually only want to change lighting and colouring a bit anyway.
What I haven't liked or want Apple to implement, is a GOD DAMN GEOTAG. I've sacrificed enough giving up my iPhoto Events/Albums for the "Moments" view, which I guess is ok if your photos all have the proper metadata, but if they don't I at least want to be able to add or change it. Also I hope they have made it so iCloud doesn't upload on your mobile data, because there is no setting I can find for that. They also need to add a Faces view, and in relation to changing metadata/organising, they need to make it so you can do it on mobile & mac, so then we can slowly sort out our libraries on our mobiles when we get spare time anywhere.
Overall I'm happy though and like it, I'm putting faith in that my photos are secure both privately (2 factor authentication, strong passwords, Apple protect me pls) and safely so that I don't need too worry to much about my backups, although I do keep multiple. I'd say it's more for personal use for consumers, because unless you have an awesome internet connection most of the time, uploading multiple large JPEGs or RAWs from a shoot will take forever and possibly lag your net. So I'd probably look at something like Adobe Lightroom for managing photoshoot collections and maybe just put the ones you like into Photos. As I said, I feel it's more for simple personal use anyway.
So does anybody know why my imported Photos library (from Aperture) is 50GB larger than Aperture?
Aperture 370GB
Photos 430GB
Exactly the same, non of this iCloud crap either.
It also took 48 hours of pure CPU usage to process the images after a 12 hour 'preparing your library' session... So could it be thumbnails? If so anyway to fix it?
Aperture 370GB
Photos 430GB
Exactly the same, non of this iCloud crap either.
It also took 48 hours of pure CPU usage to process the images after a 12 hour 'preparing your library' session... So could it be thumbnails? If so anyway to fix it?
I don't think so...I didn't check the menu, but I couldn't edit location at all on Photos within the application; it only displayed the existing location in the info box.