- Oct 11, 2018 On your Mac: Open Photos and in the menu bar, click View Show Hidden Photo Album. In the left sidebar, select Hidden. Select the photo or video that you want to unhide. Control-click the photo, then choose Unhide Photo. You can also choose Image Unhide Photo from the menu bar, or press Command-L.
- PowerPhotos works with the built-in Photos app on your Mac, providing an array of tools to help you get your photo collection in order. Create and manage multiple libraries Instead of being limited to putting all your photos in a single library, PowerPhotos can work with multiple Photos libraries, giving you many more options for how to.
- Recover Lost Photos from Mac via Photo Library. Photo library is the database where all photo files, thumbnails, metadata info, etc. If you find the library folder but see no photos in it, then it may get corrupted. Restore iPhoto Pictures Missing after Upgrade. Photo Library First Aid is the build-in feature of iPhoto.
- Sep 17, 2014 I have 6 iOS devices, two of them with the GM installed (iPhone, iPad) with iCloud Photo library working correctly, I've installed iOS 8 public release on the other devices and that options is missing, no iCloud Photo library on any of them. Is this feature gone in the public release even if.
- Before going ahead with the steps to Access the Hidden Library Folder on your Mac, you need to be aware that /Library Folder contains important Data and Files related to Mac User Accounts. Hence, make sure that you are accessing the Library Folder for a good reason and you do know as to what you are trying to achieve.
Jul 12, 2017 How to Move Your Apple Photos Library to Another Location Matt Klein @howtogeek Updated July 12, 2017, 11:14am EDT Apple’s new Photos application was released as part of a. Mar 03, 2019 What’s Missing in iCloud Photos Family Sharing. While Apple does allow you to create shared albums in iCloud Photos, it doesn’t allow a way for families to create a single library for all of.
Photos for Mac has two modes of importing photos, managed (the default) and referenced. This is determined by the Photos > Preference > General > Importing. If you disable 'Copy items into the Photos Library', Photos will not store copies in its library but reference the photos in their original location. That can help to save storage by keeping the original photos on an external drive. See this Help page: https://help.apple.com/photos/mac/1.0/?lang=en#/pht12e7a8015
Aperture users migrating to Photos might be tempted to set up a referenced Library in Photos, since referenced libraries worked well in Aperture.
Unfortunately, the support for referenced photos is still poor in Photos. It is a little better than in iPhoto, but still cannot be recommended in Photos for several reasons:
- There is no tool to relocate the originals to a different drive, if you need to move them to a drive with more storage or you need to replace the drive, because it is failing.
- If you delete referenced photos from the library, you cannot delete the original as well automatically. It will be left behind and you have to track it down individually or have to consolidate the photos into the library before deleting them.
- Worst of all, there is no versatile tool to reconnect the referenced original files to the versions in the Photos Library, if Photos has lost the connection. Photos will just complain about a missing file and ask you to search for it, without any information about the missing file.
- And if you want to use iCloud Photo Library you cannot use referenced files, because they are not supported in iCloud Photo Library.
Therefore, risking a referenced library will mean a lot of work for reestablishing the connection between originals and the versions in the Photo Library, if you ever need to move the library, or need to replace the drive, or restore the library from a backup, and sooner ar later this will be necessary, since any drive will fail sooner or later.
And you have to manage the originals on your own. This should only be done by experienced users, not beginners just starting to use Photos. It is easy to make mistakes and accidentally delete the precious originals.
Occasionally the thumbnails in the Browser may not correspond to the enlarged image, or the thumbnails may appear to be corrupted, but the enlarged image is fine. While iPhoto and Aperture have a tool to recreate the thumbnails, such a tool is missing in all versions of Photos from Photos 1.0 to Photos 4.0.
Celebrity Photo Library
We can use this simple workaround to fix the thumbnails: To rebuild the thumbnails edit them slightly, so Photos will be forced to render new thumbnails. This is best done by rotating the photos back and forth, because rotating by 90° degrees is non-destructive and can be applied to multiple photos at once without having to open the Edit window for each photo individually.
- Select all photos that need new thumbnails at once - it does not matter if the selection includes photos that do not need repairing.
- Then rotate the selected photos back and forth by first pressing ⌘R (Image > Rotate Counterclockwise) and then back by ⇧⌘R (Image > Rotate Clockwise).
This may not suffice, if your photos are RAW photos and the corrupted thumbnails are caused by a difference in RAW processing. In that case try to reprocess the RAW files:
- Double-click a photo in your Photos library to open it, click Edit in the toolbar, then choose Image > Reprocess RAW.
Before applying this fix I'd repair the Photos library, just in case there are other hidden corruptions. Only, if your library is an iCloud Photo Library wait with repairing as the last resort. Repairing will result in uploading the complete library again and comparing the photos to iCloud. You may not want to have that happen on a slow Wi-Fi.
To repair the Photos Library:
Mac Photo Library Management
- Make a backup copy of the iPhoto Library.
- Hold down the key combination alt/options key and command key ⌥⌘ while double clicking the Photos icon.
- Click the 'Repair' button and repair the library.
This may take a while for a large library.
Update: There is now an Apple Support Document describing this fix: Fix missing or incorrect thumbnails in Photos - Apple Supporthttps://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205069
Update 2: The link above does currently not work. The document has been removed for all language versions.