Multiple Photos Libraries have been created and are located on a single Mac. Instead of using the 'Option'-key at Photos starting up to select the specific Photos Library to access, you want to have all Libraries merged into one. Work through the steps at the Apple Communities article. Notes on Merging Photos Libraries, 2019 Version.
- May 21, 2019 It helps you to create and manage multiple libraries, copy photos between libraries, find duplicates, and—most important for this topic—merge libraries. Because PowerPhotos is working entirely on your Mac’s drive, it’s fast and it doesn’t require huge amounts of extra disk space.
- Merging Additional Image Libraries: 1) To merge additional libraries, launch Photos while holding down the option key, and then select the next library you wish to merge with the main library. 2) Follow steps 3 through 10, above. 3) Repeat for each image library you wish to merge with the main Photos library.
The two libraries are both on iCloud, but are attached to two separate Apple ID's. My Apple ID has one library, my wife's Apple ID has the other. Essentially we want to combine them both into my Apple ID library. I'm hoping the answer isn't to export her entire library onto a hard drive, then import those files into my library. It's my understanding that doing so will wipe out much of the metadata such as Live Photos, faces, GPS data, etc.
Multiple Photos Libraries have been created and are located on a single Mac. Instead of using the 'Option'-key at Photos starting up to select the specific Photos Library to access, you want to have all Libraries merged into one. Work through the steps at the Apple Communities article. Notes on Merging Photos Libraries, 2019 Version.
- May 21, 2019 It helps you to create and manage multiple libraries, copy photos between libraries, find duplicates, and—most important for this topic—merge libraries. Because PowerPhotos is working entirely on your Mac’s drive, it’s fast and it doesn’t require huge amounts of extra disk space.
- Merging Additional Image Libraries: 1) To merge additional libraries, launch Photos while holding down the option key, and then select the next library you wish to merge with the main library. 2) Follow steps 3 through 10, above. 3) Repeat for each image library you wish to merge with the main Photos library.
The two libraries are both on iCloud, but are attached to two separate Apple ID's. My Apple ID has one library, my wife's Apple ID has the other. Essentially we want to combine them both into my Apple ID library. I'm hoping the answer isn't to export her entire library onto a hard drive, then import those files into my library. It's my understanding that doing so will wipe out much of the metadata such as Live Photos, faces, GPS data, etc.
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Any thoughts? The main reason we want to do this is to clean up the libraries by deleting duplicates and photos we don't want. She has 40,000 photos in hers. I have 30,000 photos in mine. There is likely lots of overlap. I don't want to have to go through each library and duplicate much of the work a second time.
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Mega too many connections for this.
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Combining Two Photo Libraries On Mac
Aug 23, 2018 8:01 AM
