Consolidate Photos

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• Which means 'Consolidate' photos?

  I'm just starting to use the Photos on my Mac desktop app and I see an element of menu called Consolidate. There is no reference to this in the help file (thanks a lot Apple.) If you are going to make an app write a good manual for her!) What it means in the context of the app to consolidate Photos and how to use this menu item.

  Also, I see a few iPhoto events in the sidebar in Photos. I never liked events in iPhoto and they would amalgamate periodically. Is there a way to merge these events in pictures?

  Thank you.

  Consolidate is used to convert a library referenced to a managed library

  When n = migrate FRO iPhoto iPhoto events are manufactured in photo albums and are stored in a folder names iPhoto events - they are regular albums and you can merge, delete, etc. as well as any other album

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• Migration assistant will consolidate iPhoto and photo libraries

  I just bought an iMac "towards the end of 2015" to replace my iMac 2011. I'm a Mac (MacBook Pro and iMac) user since 2005 and I am aware of the installation of the Migration Wizard when you first install a new Mac. However, for some reason, I have an iphotos library and a library of photos. Can anyone tell if migration assistant will consolidate in a single library or I have to do (manually?) before migration?

  Two follow-up questions (if you're still reading this...)

  iMovie is now only opens on my iMac 2011 (part of the reason why I bought a new iMac). There are projects that must still be finalized that it contains. Speculation as to whether the data migration is likely to result in my getting access to these existing projects? Worst case scenario would be that everything that is corrupt iMovie on my current iMac is transferred to the new machine. My guess is that what stop imovie to open 2011 on the iMac is not related to the data that make up the project, so that when I migrate to the new machine, I go back to my projects. Can anyone confirm this?

  Last question (base); What are the recommendations for what should be my time machine drive? I currently have 1 Tb internal, more an external of 2 to 3 TB of disk. With the new machine equipped with connectivity Thunderbolt that I will be in the market for a new external hard drive. because the new machine has 2 TB drive internal pot and am looking to get a disc hard thunderbolt of 3 - 4Tb, should I still 5-6 to time machine as backup (assuming I get nearby using all available space my on my internal and external drive)?

  Much appreciated for your advice.

  No, it won't merge.

  Using both programs such as libraries have different content that needs merging? When Photos import iPhoto library, it creates hard links to files, not copy, so they do not all the disk space.

  I can't respond to the #2.

  Your our backup drive should be two to three times the amount of data to back up.

• Where are my files stored rates consolidate my photo library

  MY photo library is stored in the folder my pictures on an external hard drive, and my pictures are referenced from the same folder. I found out thet, I can't see my pictures on iCloud if referenced photos. If I consolidate my library by changing the managed files are the original files moved to the photo library, or are they copying originals?

  I have 200 GB of storage available in iCloud. I have an iMac 250 GB of storage available. How do I set up my system so my photo library is uploaded to iCloud pictures and photos optimized on my iMac. I'm a bit confused at the moment and need help! Perhaps Leoni

  CConsolidating will copy the refeenced files in the library.

• I have two libraries 'photos' and only want one. How Merge/consolidate their?

  I have two libraries 'photos' and only want one. How Merge/consolidate their?

  Photos has no tool to merge two libraries by importing each other.

  • You can export the photos of the smallest library and import them into the largest library,
  • or merge libraries in iCloud, if you sign up for enough storage iCloud accommodate the merged libraries.  To merge in iCloud activate one of your photo libraries as the photo library iCloud and wait for the pictures to download on iCloud, then proceed to the second library, enable this as the iCloud photo library, wait for the pictures to download. iCloud will download the pictures of the first library to the second, and you'll have a library merged in the second library.

  Or buy PowerPhotos.  This tool allows you to move photos between libraries and can help you merge some libraries. You can buy it here:

  • Powerphotos: fat cat Software

• Solution of fast backup, photos of google or iCloud photo library?

  Hey there Apple community, im in a bit of a situation difficult and need a few thoughts. My iPhone more than 6 s is fully charged to 64 GB of photos and applications. My iMac is fully loaded with photos in iphoto, Yosemite. I have 10% left in my iMac HD. It won't let me save my iphone. I know I go through my iphoto library and organize and delete some photos and consolidate the events before migrating to the new application photos and then move it to icloud photo library, but I'm very limited on time in the next few months and won't be able to do. I wrestle on a quick temporary solution for backup, but don't want to spoil or lose my precious photos and other data.

  But this is what im thinking, tell me if this would mess things up.

  I would like to either temporarily back up all my photos on Google photos for now from my iphone, and then when I'm ready, I'm going to migrate my iphoto library all on my imac to the photo library to icloud and then transfer my photo library from google to the photo library icloud (but not sure. If it works Someone at - it experience with google pictures and Mac?).

  Or I simply activate the iCloud library of photos on my phone while it backs up my current pictures on my phone last year and then optimize my storage on my phone. Then a few months starting now to migrate my iphoto library 268 GB of Photos app on my iMac running Yosemite and then migrate the library of Photos in this same icloud photos library that I opened a few months back from my phone (I understand I will pay $10 per month for the size of the library). I feel like the latest one is the best option, but I'm not sure if I do it my icloud library won't sync and consolidate properly because I started with my current pictures on my phone and then brought in my library of photos together for the last 5 years at a later date. How do you think any community?

  Why not get an external drive and move the photo library of the computer to the outside. If successful, you can then remove the library on the computer, or just keep it as a backup.

  The article is for iPhoto, but the basics are the same.

  iPhoto: move your iPhoto library to a new location

• How can I import my iPhotos library into the new application Photos?

  My iPhoto library is on an external hard drive. When I try to import into the new application of Photos on my laptop, it is said that Photos doesn't have "permissions". I can't find a way to solve this problem, please help!

  Hello. This information should help you http://www.macworld.com/article/2909654/software-photography/how-to-import-merge-and-consolidate-your-libraries-in-photos-for-os-x.html

• Storage of photos, external hard drive, Dropbox, need space

  Hi, I'm under the Photos to Mac and my computer has 120 GB. I have a lot of pictures and I also TAKE a lot of photos, and I ran out of space. So, I try to find a solution in the future. I'll write a short list of what I've tried so far and I'm subscribed to services, but I hope someone can help me create a system that works in the long term, especially so that my photos and videos are safe and I'll always have more than one backup.

  I have dropbox and download automatic camera, and I also have pictures of Google which stores the version not high resolution of all. I bought a large external hard drive today and copied my library of Photos on it, but now I think... If I connect my iPhone to my computer and it starts automatically upload all my pictures BUT my external hard drive is not connected... where are these pictures? A different photo library? How can I get the new additions on the hard drive?

  Dropbox is a solution? Just copy the entire photo library in dropbox? If so, make new additions in photos automatically the head of this dropbox folder? I have to keep this dropbox folder sync on my computer (in which case... There is not enough space on the hard drive...).

  In addition, the library of photos on the mac is 35 GB, but the mac is relatively new. My iPhotos library of before a 250 GB and I would like a way to combine all these old photos in a library of solid, but with only 120 GB on this computer, how can I manage consolidate all this?

  Finally, go ahead I intend to start using a camera DSLR and editing photos... what kind of storage solution/system I need? I think it would be awkward hanging around external hard drives with libraries on them?

  I hope that these issues are clear, and I would appreciate any input.

  Dropbox is a solution? Just copy the entire photo library in dropbox? If so, make new additions in photos automatically the head of this dropbox folder? I have to keep this dropbox folder sync on my computer (in which case... There is not enough space on the hard drive...).

  absolutely not - the photo library may not be on DropBox, as a library of operation or a backup - it may be local

  Basically, the answer is that if you want to use high-quality photos, you need a lot more storage Mac - 120 GB is tiny - if you want to make things interesting to improve your storage space

  You can use iCloud photo library with photos optimized on your computer, but can be slow to download and required Internet to make changes

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• How Photos stores libraries?

  I would like to understand how Photos stores photos. I come from a background of Picasa. Picasa, only used tags to build libraries but not to reproduce the photo itself (which I understand). However, it looks like iPhotos and Photos really build a coded library which, in a sense, duplicate photos in their own system of coded library.

  Is this correct?

  So, if this is correct, I guess that if I want to use one of the photos of, say, a document, I first need to export in the pictures folder (or somewhere) and it access?

  And, if this is correct, it raises the question of whether copies of photo outside the library can be deleted safely? What a pity that 'information' about the photos of the library do not point to their original location in the pictures folder.

  Post edited by: wizard_chef to add another question

  It looks like iPhotos and Photos really build a coded library which, in a sense, duplicate photos in their own system of coded library.

  Is this correct?

  Photos, iPhoto, Aperture, etc., are essentially applications of databases keep track of your photos and everything that changes and tags have been added to them.

  If you have iPhoto and photo libraries, they both link to the same files on your drive. the files are not duplicated, even if she looks like this in the Finder. If you remove, say, iPhoto library, you re - win very small storage space.

  Because these applications are databases, you should let them consolidate (as opposed to the use of libraries referenced) all your images and never, ever try to reorganize or rename, the files directly in the library file.

• With the help of successful library - Photos can delete originals on the hard drive?

  I have "manually manage" my Apple photo library (that is, what some call the "referenced" option).

  I created a smart photo album I want to permanently remove it from my Mac (out of focus, test shots, etc.). I'm curious to know if there is a way to use the Photo app to actually remove the vs photos through my individual files to perform this operation manually. This would be similar to iTunes when you remove the music, he asks if you want to delete the original files.

  I figured out how "reveal in finder" - but that does not let me do a single image at a time. I would rather try to make it in bulk.

  To be clear, I know how to remove pictures of pictures. I would go a little further and remove them from my Mac altogether.

  If you use a library "referenced" then it is your responsibility to delete the source files / referenced from the drive hard when you delete them from the photo library.  I have not seen any solution mentioned in these forums on how to automatically delete the source files.  One of the several disadvantages to manage a library of reference.

  If the extra work required to locate and delete the source files became too much, you can always consolidate library while it's now a "managed" and then deleting the library library will remove the files from the hard drive as well.

  

• How can I delete a photo album of the sidebar in the Photos on a MBP

  I have accumulated a number of photo albums in the sidebar and want to consolidate some and completely remove others. Simple removal or a combination of keys and delete does not remove the photo album. In the menu bar, I see I can create a new album, but there is no tab that would allow me to delete the album.

  You cannot delete system or records albums - for the user created folders, click with the right button on the folder in the sidebar and delete folder - even for albums

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• Send photos to iCloud photo library - referenced files

  I am trying to transfer photos to ICloud library and get the message error "775 files referenced in your library don't download not to ICloud photo library" when doing the research on this site I found how to make a smart file of the "referenced files" and selected "consolidate."  When I do that, it says "Allow photo to access your media" and tells me to choose a folder "sub" and where to find.   When I find the folder and select it I get the message "Cannot find the original file IMG_4515.JPG" when I go out and look for this Image and as always is a duplicate I then go back and go through the process again only so he could tell me another photo it does not remove it.  I get the sense he'll browse all 775 files in this way?  Help?  What should I do to get rid of these referenced files?  and if I find them in the photo and delete them is that going to help?  When I search the photo in the finder can't find something?  I am, once again, at a loss?  It seems that my system continues to download on iCloud, as the number of downloads is moving?

  and get the message error "775 files referenced in your library don't download not to ICloud library"

  It is not an error message, this is just a warning.  You can ignore other photos upload nevertheless.

  What should I do to get rid of these referenced files?  and if I find them in the photo and delete them is that going to help?

  If you are sure, that all of the referenced photos are duplicates, delete the photos in your smart album "referenced". I would create a copy of your photo library on a backup drive, before you do. In this way, you will be able to come back later, if you notice any missing files.

• How to import images continuously in my photo library?

  I discovered another disappointing aspect of photos. When I import images in the photos, I assumed that they would remain in the library after I deleted the temporary folder on my system. Unlike iPhoto, you can see on the pictures, but you can't do anything with them, because it looks for the original file. How to import images so that they remain in my photo library?

  Change your preferences of Photos.

  You probably disabled the option "pictures > Preferences > General: import: copy items in the photo library.

  This option must be enabled, or Photos will reference just the pictures stored outside the library in their original location.

  Make sure that this option is enabled. See Help for this Page: https://help.apple.com/photos/mac/1.0/?lang=en#/pht12e7a8015

  

  For photos that you imported earlier, which are always referenced outside the library, select all the pictures, then use the command "file > consolidate" to copy in the library. After that, Photos will manage them.

• iMac OSX ElCaptain - a few photos screen saver are zoomed - taking pictures

  I have my photos on my screensaver, but many of them are zoomed.  Also have a problem with faces in iPhoto - cannot turn off and a lot of my pictures have gone to a few faces? iMac OS X EL Captain worm 10.11.3 I pictures in iPhoto and photos and it becomes very confusing.  I wish that all my photos randomly flashes on the screen - but with pictures everywhere, I am not able to do.  I'd love to consolidate and do them all in one place

  You give little information so I'm not clear on what you have or what you want

  Basically when you are migrating from iPhoto to Photos both libraries are identical (and share the original and previews using hard links) - as move you toward the front of the changes are made only in the library you use (Photos or iPhoto) and nothing that do you in one program affects the other - if you do not have two different libraries - the two are identical except for additions and deletions you did since the initial migration

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• Library of photos on a NAS file server?

  Hi guys,.

  We are about to move to OS 10.11 and therefore immune from iPhoto in Photos.

  A NAS file server currently holds all of our image files; on our different Macs iPhoto libraries have albums and lists that refer to these images, but the original files are only on the server. We have more than 300 GB of images. iCloud is therefore out of the question for the storage of files.

  We want to continue to keep our files image centralized on the file server, accessed by our different Macs. Is this possible with pictures? We are confused by the fact that almost all the discussions of Photos mentions iCloud at one time or another. ICloud is mandatory for the Photos and if so why?

  Thanks in advance

  John / Bauatelier

  iCloud is not mandatory.  It is an option to synchronize photos between several devices that are connected to the same iCloud account.

  Although technically Photos can function as a reference library with some source files on a NAS server is not a stable configuration.  It is not nearly as robust that Aperture was referencing Server source files.  Most of the users end up with a library damaged at some point.

  If you want a reliable library then consolidate your library of Photos into a managed library and put it on your boot drive or on an external HD which is being shaped as shown in this screenshot and directly connected to the Mac by USB cable, Firewire, or Thunderbolt.

  

  If you want to use the iCloud photo library to sync with all your devices, you will need to purchase enough storage iCloud to house the library and should read these Apple before committing to the iCPL:

  iCloud Photo library FAQ - Apple Support

  http://www.Apple.com/support/icloud/photos/

  If the library is for a family, these can be interesting:

  https://www.Apple.com/icloud/family-sharing/

  Implement the family sharing - Apple Support