- #Powerphotos iphoto library mac os#
- #Powerphotos iphoto library update#
- #Powerphotos iphoto library software#
#Powerphotos iphoto library update#
So I have a few questions if there is anyone here who understands how Apple Photos works.įirst, does anyone know why it is taking so long to update the library? I get that there are a lot of photos (4.7 terabytes worth, which would be tens or hundreds of thousands of individual photos) but taking weeks to load seems excessive. Then the toaster tripped the power switch and we had to start over. We waited a month, and it got up to 68% loaded.
#Powerphotos iphoto library software#
In the first couple of days of this process we called Apple support several times and asked for advice but all they could tell us, after ensuring that we had the latest available system software for the computer, was to just leave it going and it would load up eventually. When we opened the Photos app and told it open the photos library on the external drive it went to a loading screen which told us what percentage of the photos library had loaded. The photos library is some 4.7 Terabytes in size on the external drive.
We then brought it home and plugged it in to the external photo storage hard drive to open up the photos library.
We took it to the local Apple store and they were able to reinstall the operating system and restore files from the Time Machine backup. Recently there was a problem, and the iMac did not boot up. When the photo collection started getting too large for the internal hard drive (which is one terabyte) we moved it to an external USB hard drive which is 6 terabytes in size. The computer is an older iMac - a 21.5 inch slim body iMac from 2015 I think. My wife ( ) is the main nature photographer and iNaturailst user of the family, and uses an Apple iMac computer to manager her extensive photo collection. It does however affect my wife’s ability to post observations on iNaturalist and I wondered if someone here might be able to help. How is this acceptable to Apple's leadership? This feels like a monopoly situation on my most important digital assets, my family photos.This isn’t a specifically iNaturalist question so apologies if it doesn’t fit on these forums. I have 30,000 images over a 10 year span. I confirmed this with Apple Support today (10:30am PDT - James - 17:58min hold time) and they're recommendation was to not use any 3rd party app as they will likely corrupt the Apple Photo Library.Īpple support recommends importing all photos and going through them manually. This means Apple Photo will recognize a photo as a duplicate during an import if it has the same file name even when it's a different photo. So you will invariably end up with multiple photos with camera assigned names like IMG_0001 but they are different photos (with the same name). This issue I and I'm sure many others have is that the automatic image naming that various camera's use is often the same.
#Powerphotos iphoto library mac os#
Submit Enhancement Request using Apple Mac OS "Photos" app feedback formĭo you or anyone else on the thread know if any of the 3rd party apps mentioned above actually look at the images visual characteristics when determining if it's a duplicate?
Submit Enhancement Request using Apple IOS "Photos" app feedback form Please log a "Photos Feature Request" or "Photos Enhancement Request" using Apple "Photos" app feedback form below to help resolve this problem Please log a "Photos Feature Request" or "Photos Enhancement Request" using Apple "Photos" app feedback form below to help resolve this problemĪpple support "photos" specialist confirmed following :ġ) The new Photos app and old iphoto app had a way to search for duplicates on import this does not work once the duplicate photos are imported into library (by error or otherwise)Ģ) Apple photos has no way to search for duplicate photos, they suggested that users "manually search for duplicate photos".ģ) Apple support do not recommend third party apps to remove photos as they can damage the library.Ĥ) They acknowledged this approach is less than ideal when you have 20,000+ photos (or in my case 80,000 + photos) and suggested that all users who have concerns should log a new feature request using apple feedback form (URL below for IOS and OS Mac Photos feedback form). All, I spoke to Apple support today () and they confirmed that as of today Photos App has no way to identify or find duplicate photos in your photo library or icloud library.
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