I also do not want my pictures in iCloud! I feel they are doing this to force us to buy iCloud space. Very upset! All was well until…. Very long article but didnot find the solution I was looking for. No way to get photos? Years ago I moved some pics to an external drive. I was unable to have the Photos app do anything with the external drive.
The only info I had was a pic title such as img. Can one now get the Photos app to see titles on a library on an external drive? But if you dragged and dropped them into external drive, then the metadata would have been lost. Nice blog. I have learnt so many things and from your post. Its very easy trick to move our photos. I appreciate your blog. Thanks and Keep sharing.
Contemplating buy my first mac. I have them in onedrive, but could be perhaps put half on external storage and then use the other part in onedrive. Windows photo app and others just monitor a location s and add new photos when new ones are in the folder.
Is that right? Thanks for your time. The most common thing I do with all my photos is name them. Very easy so I almost never not name a photo. In Photo adding a name to more than one photo is incredibly hard. I have figured out how to do it but the next time I try I can not remember how. Also it is way harder to do. This is an example of Apple trying to dumb down all their apps so they can work on IOS.
Bad Idea in my mind. If anyone has a simple way to batch name a group of photos in Photo I would gladly switch. Does iCloud Photos Library work with iPhoto? I agree and see the same thing happening with Apple. New changes has Apple assuming what I want and what I want to do next. Let ME decide. That may not be true each and every time, but most of the time. I used to be able to connect my iPhone and do a simple drag and drop to anywhere in my phone.
How much more money does Apple need? I understand appealing to the 8 and 10 year old user to condition their loyalty, but for crying out loud Tim show some loyalty to the older money that put Apple where it is. Now select the photos you want to title. Shift-click to select a range or cmd-click to select individually.
Type the desired title into the title field in the Info window. All your selected photos will get this title. Easy Peasy. Finder also lets you rename a group of photos or other files. Select files — click Gearbox icon — Rename — Format. It also allows batch renaming photos. If I move my system photo library from one computer to an external drive, can I use Photos and icloud photo library on that computer without plugging in the external drive?
Very helpful blog. With PC, you can choose where you want your photos, create folders albums anywhere. Even on a second drive if you want to. Applications can find your photos in any location. Hi Peter, You should be able to access your Photos directly without moving them to the desktop or a temp folder. Pretty slick! Thanks for the useful article. Email Address. We use cookies to provide you with a full shopping experience, including personalized content, and to help us improve your experience.
To learn more, click here. Then open iPhoto again. Now click the Find Library button to show the program where you put the folder. Done deal! After all, it contains all the photos you import into iPhoto, which, essentially, is your entire photography collection. Chapter 14 offers much more on this file management topic.
It turns out that iPhoto meticulously arranges your photos within these numbered folders according to the creation dates of the originals, as explained in Figure Figure Behold the mysteries of the iPhoto Library. Once you know the secret, this seemingly cryptic folder structure actually makes sense, with all the photos in the library organized by their creation dates.
Albums, which are like folders for organizing photos, are described in Chapter 5. Details on sharing are in Chapter Albums folder.
You might notice that the two Data files 38 and This is how it used to look in macOS Mojave, all nicely organised into separate files by year and month. You could easily find photos if you knew when they were taken. If months were missing, it just means that you didn't take any photos that month. Then along came macOS Catalina and changed everything.
For some reason this nice, easily understood file organization was abandoned and what we now have in the Photos library is this:. All the photos are stored in the originals folder in subfolders named 0 to F. These subfolders contain files with what looks like random filenames. The dates on the files do not correspond with anything, well, actually, you will probably find that a large number of photos are the date you installed Catalina.
It seems that your whole photo collection was copied on that date, which means you cannot sort the photos by date to find one that was taken on a specific date.
It seems like Apple has done its best to prevent you from accessing photos directly by obscuring the names, dates and folder structure. To be fair, you don't actually have to have access to the photos on the disk through Finder and photos can be dragged out of the Photos app and dropped on the desktop, in a folder or into a photo editor like GIMP.
The Photos app is meant to be the way to access photos. If you still want to access photos directly on the disk, one way to do it is using a freeware utility called XnView MP. This enables it to open the Photos Library. On the right are thumbnail images of the photos. Do not open any of the folders, instead, go to the View menu and select Show files in subfolder.
You might need to leave it for five or 10 minutes the first time you do this because it scans the subfolders for photos and builds a catalog from them. Give it a minute if you have thousands of photos. It is much faster the second time you use XnView MP and it has built up and sorted its catalog. The result is all your photos shown as thumbnail images sorted by date. Select a thumbnail and the full EXIF information is shown in the bottom left corner and a larger thumbnail is in the bottom right corner.
Is it worth the effort?
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