![]() Requires enough iCloud storage space to hold both the main library as well as the one you intend to merge.Retains both the master image and any current edits, allowing you to undo edits, or continue to perform new edits without altering the master.Able to merge image libraries while retaining all metadata, such as recognized faces, events, albums, and projects.We’ll start with the iCloud Photo Library. In this article, we’re going to look at the various methods available in the hope that at least one of them will meet your needs when it comes to merging image libraries, or even just moving a few images around from one library to another. Note: This tip works for macOS High Sierra and Mojave. Performing a switcheroo every time gets old pretty quickly, so I decided the best thing to do would be to merge the two libraries into one on my Mac. (Holding down the option key while launching Photos allows you to pick which library to use.) If you’ve done this, too, then you know you must hold down the option key when you launch Photos to choose which Photos Library you want to use, unless you’re lucky enough to have the target library open right off the bat (and that never happens). When Photos came along, I set it up to work with either library. In the past, I’ve used Aperture to store my business-related images, and iPhoto to keep my personal pictures organized. Warning: This story has not been updated in several years and may contain out-of-date information.If you’ve been working with the Mac’s Photos app (or even the older iPhoto or Aperture apps) for any length of time, there’s a good chance you have multiple image libraries to help you organize your pictures. Merging libraries in PowerPhotosīecause I wrote a book about Photos for Mac, a user group in Chicago asked me to give them a presentation about Photos, which I did earlier this week. 1 At the end of the presentation, someone asked about merging the contents of multiple Libraries together, and I had to give them the bad news: There’s just no way to do it. Less than two hours later, there was an email in my inbox from Fat Cat Software, makers of the go-to utility for merging iPhoto libraries (as well as a bunch of other iPhoto-related stuff), iPhoto Library Manager. ![]() PowerPhotos provides an actual interface for merging too choose Library > Merge Libraries to start. Fat Cat has a similar utility for Photos, PowerPhotos, but due to the limitations of the Photos app itself, it wasn’t able to merge libraries together. In the window that appears, you have four tasks: Choose source libraries. How to import multiple libraries into Aperture. You aren’t limited to merging just two libraries you can pick multiple sources. (If you don't see it, try looking in your Pictures folder. Repeat steps 2-3 for every additional library you want to import. From each set of all the found duplicates, iPhoto Library Manager will pick one to keep and do some actions to the others based on the pre-defined rules. This is the library you want to receive all the photos. Use Edit Rules to change them according to your needs. I have two machines with different users. Some of the available rules are: Move to Trash, Flag, Hide, Add to Album, or Assign Keywords. Just combined three iPhoto Libraries into one - now trying to make sure that the Photos app will be able to push the Photos Library to the iCloud in it’s full glory, and then do an import from the 11000+ image iPhoto Library to Photos, and then merge it with the iCloud Photos contents. I would like to migrate iPhoto library from a laptop to a desktop. ![]() I would also like to merge iTunes music but that is not as crucial. Is there a way to export photos from iPhoto library to a folder, then copy. It turns out that a lot of those limitations of Photos were erased with version 1.1, released with OS X El Capitan. (It’s got a bunch of other useful features, including the ability to detect and remove duplicates and to view the contents of a library as a list.) Now PowerPhotos has been updated to version 1.1, and it has added support for merging multiple Photos libraries together into one. The merge feature can bring in the edited version of your photo, or the original, but not both and manually assigned locations, faces, and projects aren’t supported. And Fat Cat has simplified the connection between PowerPhotos and iPhoto Library Manager-a single $30 license works with both apps. (Users of iPhoto Library Manager 3 can upgrade for $15.)ĭespite the limitations of this new approach, it’s good to know that there’s finally a way to merge the contents of two libraries together, short of dragging all the images into the Finder, changing libraries, and then dragging them back in.
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