Question: what am I supposed to do with a lifetime of photographs locked into Library files of PHOTOS?
How to download iCloud Photos keeping metadata (date, time, etc.) to an external hard drive?.I tried the Export button on the Photos App in macOS but I have some problems with that tool:-sometimes it does not export at all (it does it and then the folder is empty)-sometimes it exports everything except a couple of photos/videos, without knowing which one (it does show the name of the file. In addition to moving your multi-gigabyte iTunes library to an external drive, a significant amount of Mac storage space can be freed up by moving your photo libraries onto a separate drive. If you take a lot of pictures with a DSLR camera or your iOS devices and import them in Photos, you’ll fairly quickly run out of free space on most Macs. Apr 23, 2015 How to import, export and share photos with Photos for Mac. Importing and exporting photos is nearly the same with the new Photos app as it was. The title of your question asks how to export photos in full quality, whereas your last sentence asks how to recover your original photo. @JaimeSantaCruz is absolutely correct that you can Export Unmodified Original, which will give you a full-quality copy of your original.However, if you've made edits to the photo, they will be lost with that command. Nov 09, 2018 Open the Pictures folder and there you will find the Photos library. TIP: In order to see how much storage your photos have taken, just Ctrl+Click on the photos library icon and click on Get Info. Now you can make sure that you have enough storage in your external hard drive. You can delete the Photo Library from your Mac computer. I’m new to mac, and I’ve put a huge number of pictures into iPhoto. Now all of my old and new jpeg files exist in the iPhoto Library in Finder. If a few years down the road I get a Windows laptop, will I be able to transfer my iPhoto Library to my Windows “My Pictures” and still be able to access the files?
They are not locked in the Photos library. Photos is a database driven DAM (digital asset management) system. This user tip for iPhoto is also applicable to Photos: How to Access Files in iPhoto. You can get your original files out of the library any time you'd like by following rkaufman87's directions.
If you select all of the photos in the library and export the originals
you can opt to have them saved in folders corresponding to the Moments in the library, i.e. each moment is for a give date the photos were taken.
Or you can just export them all into one folder - your choice.
Hi! I’m in the midst of some confusing computer issues.
I’m new to mac, and I’ve put a huge number of pictures into iPhoto. Now all of my old and new jpeg files exist in the iPhoto Library in Finder.
If a few years down the road I get a Windows laptop, will I be able to transfer my iPhoto Library to my Windows “My Pictures” and still be able to access the files? The Windows computer wouldn’t have iPhoto, so does that mean it wouldn’t be able to view them? I’m really nervous about losing the ability to access my pictures.
Would it be safer not to use iPhoto? I really like the program, but I don’t want to lose accessibility if I need to use Windows. I have two external hard drives that I frequently use to back up my files, and both are Mac/Windows compatible. The issue is just if the iPhoto Library will be transferable or not.
Thank you SO much in advance for any help! Sorry if I was repetitive – I’m trying to wrap my head around this!
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iPhoto is a bit tricky. You will find iPhoto Library in your pictures folder. You need to get the pictures out of that. Right click (Command click) on it and select “Show Package Contents” In there you will see a folder with the originals. From there you can drag them to a external drive. They will open without a problem on a Windows machine.
@thisisfun Thank you for your help!! I love the idea of being able to get the pictures out of iPhoto. I followed through and did the Show Package Contents, then clicked on the Originals folder. However, the Originals folder was only 4KB big (and I have about 200GB of pictures) – and didn’t contain pictures. Does this mean iPhoto doesn’t have the originals?
Thank you, again!!
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@hellolulu No, it doesn’t nessesarily mean that. If you’ve edited a photo, it puts the original version of it in the original folder. If you haven’t touched it up or anything, it wouldn’t be in the original folder.
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