Unlock Apple Photo Library On Mac

28.05.2020

I've had a multi-Mac household pretty much since college, rocking a laptop and desktop in addition to miscellaneous iOS devices throughout the years. Dropbox and iCloud sync made most of the pains of using several Macs disappear, but iPhoto was always a problem. My laptop is tiny! My iPhoto library, not so much.

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Jan 05, 2020 If you want your Mac's photos to wirelessly sync to all your other iOS devices and computers, you want to set up iCloud Photo Library: Apple's photo sync service lets you back up your images on all your devices, as well as access them — online or offline — on said devices.If you're willing to pay for the extra iCloud storage space, you can store an incredible amount of photos and videos. Apr 22, 2015 How to use multiple photo libraries with Photos for Mac. Photos for Mac lets you work with multiple libraries. Learn how to choose a default library, open another library, and merge multiple. Aug 02, 2012 Hi, I upgraded to iPhoto 11 and now when I open the iPhoto Library I get this message: ' Caution, The Iphoto Library is on a locked volume. Reopen iPhoto when you have read/write access, or reopen iPhoto with the Option Key held down to choose another library'. Yes, Apple has decided that everything except the kitchen sink should be stored online in iCloud instead of directly on your iMac. First, it was your iTunes music library; then your Pages, Numbers, and Keynote documents; and now it’s your photographs and video clips! To turn the iCloud Photo Library feature on, choose Photos→Preferences, click.

Thankfully, Photos for Mac — paired with iCloud Photo Library's Optimize Storage feature — makes working with and syncing multiple Macs a breeze. Here's how you can do it.

How to use Photos and iCloud Photo Library with multiple Macs

To unlock iPhoto library you need to follow a few simple steps: If the iPhoto library is on a CD or DVD or other read only media like a USB stick then the iPhoto library cannot be accessed from that disk. To get rid of the problem you need to copy the library on the hard drive where you would be able to modify it and then add the copy to the.
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Jan 29, 2015 We show you more about the iCloud Photo Library, how it works and how to use it with this Simply Mac Tip & Trick.

Here's a quick, simple breakdown on setting up your Macs to support Photos and iCloud Photo Library.

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I recommend starting with your biggest iPhoto library; it'll usually be on your desktop Mac. When you open Photos for the first time, your library should import automatically; if it prompts you to create a new library, your Photos library may be stored in another location on your Mac, and you may need to manually open it.

Once you've imported your biggest library on your Mac, make sure iCloud Photo Library is turned on and syncing. You can do this by following these steps:

Launch Photos on your Mac.
Click Photos in the menu bar.
Select Preferences (or do this quicker by pressing ⌘,).
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Click on the iCloud tab.
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Check off the box for iCloud Photos.
- You can also check off the box for Download Originals to this Mac if you have the space.
- You can check off Optimize Mac Storage to save space on your Mac by only saving a percentage of images and video locally — the rest will be thumbnails that you can click on to download when you want to.
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Now, open your other Mac, and launch Photos. If you have an iPhoto library on that secondary Mac, follow the same steps as above — import your library, then turn on iCloud Photo Library. If you have duplicates of the same photo on each computer, iCloud should automatically resolve those conflicts when it syncs, providing you with just one version of your photos when the sync process finishes.

If you don't have an iPhoto library on your secondary Mac, create a new library in Photos and turn on iCloud Photo Library. If you want to save storage space on this secondary Mac, make sure Optimize Mac Storage is selected: This will save a certain percentage of images and video locally to your device, while providing thumbnails of all the others for you to download at your leisure.

After you've set up all your Macs with Photos and the sync process has finished, you're now good to go. From here on out, any time you add photos, they'll sync to every computer you've set up with Photos.

What syncs, what doesn't sync

Photos for Mac syncs a lot more than just your original photos and videos. According to a support document on Apple.com, here's what else you should expect to see sync:

All folders and albums
Smart Albums
Keywords
Memories
Searchable keywords
Key photo selections

There are a few things iCloud Photo Library won't sync, however. Here's Apple's list:

Books, cards, calendars, and slideshows
Keyword shortcuts
Unused keywords
Last imported album on the Mac in question
Names and faces in the People album

For those not using iCloud Photo Library

If you've chosen not to enable iCloud Photo Library, Apple still offers you free syncing of your last 1000 photos via My Photo Stream, which doesn't count toward your iCloud disk space.

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This will sync and download images you've imported or taken on other devices, but you won't have the option to optimize your storage or sync your albums.

Octoober 2019: Updated for macOS Catalina.

Serenity Caldwell contributed to an earlier version of this guide.

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