10 Best Tips to Organize Photos on Mac 2020
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- Опубліковано 3 лип 2024
- The only tips you need to know to finally have the Mac Photos Library of your dreams. Get through years of photos quickly with these ten simple steps. You'll learn great keyboard shortcuts and hot tips for handling big chunks of photos at once. TIME CODES AND TIPS BELOW:
00:00 Intro - The ten best tips to organize photos on Mac
00:30 Getting set up
01:37 Quickly marking favourites
03:23 Deleting the rejects
04:52 Deleting selfies & screenshots
05:45 Making new albums
07:46 Deleting old albums
09:19 Fixing mistakes
10:05 Searching and filtering
12:02 Fixing date order
13:30 Making slideshows & books
16:04 Troubleshooting and more...
Getting set up
1. Show Sidebar by dragging right edge of window to the right
2. Make thumbnails bigger
3. Go to All Photos area
4. Uncheck any filters
5. iCloud Photo Library - troubleshooting not explained in this video
Quickly marking favourites
1. Arrow keys to go left, right, down, up
2. Period on the keyboard to mark as Favourite
3. Spacebar to zoom in on photo
4. Command-R to rotate photos
Deleting the rejects
1. Click the one you want to delete
2. Delete key on the keyboard
3. Return key on the keyboard to confirm
4. Command-click to select multiple photos to delete
5. Spacebar to zoom in, then delete key, then return
6. Delete key within an album just removes it from the album
7. Command-delete to delete the original photo, while looking at album
Deleting selfies & screenshots
1. Look under Albums for Media Types
2. Go into Selfies section
3. Command-click the ones to be deleted
4. Delete key, then return
5. Go into Screenshots section
6. Command-A to select all, or command-click to select or deselect individuals
7. Delete key, then return
Making new albums
Deleting old albums
Fixing mistakes
Searching and filtering
Fixing date order
Making slideshows & books
Troubleshooting and more
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A very useful Tutorial, so easy to follow,. Delivered at a speed one could follow without having to constantly stop, rewind and start again! Thank you!
Thank you kindly! :)
Thanks for this tutorial. I now have the courage to start organizing my foto's in slides shows, albums, favorites. Practically everything you suggested made me enthusiastic about getting started and start enjoying this whole process.
That is wonderful news. Best testimonial ever!
- Lucas
Thank you SO much! I've been overwhelmed...until now!
Love it 😊
This tutorial was SO helpful!!! Thanks very much.
You're so welcome! :)
- Lucas
this tutorial was brilliant! Thank you, learnt quite a lot
Love it! :)
- Lucas
many thanks for the tutorial, the best one I discovered so far
Awesome! Great to hear. Thank you!
- Lucas
Incredibly helpful. Will speed up my photos work considerably.
Awesome! :)
- Lucas
Well done....good pacing and lots of quick hints and helps!!!!!
Thank you so much! This one is definitely one of my favourites. :)
- Lucas
this is incredibly helpful so thank you so much! Very well done
Thank you kindly! :)
- Lucas
Thank you so much for sharing this 💞🙏 I am very very grateful
So glad you found it! :)
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Thank you for this tutorial
You're welcome! :)
- Lucas
I LOVE the way you talk Lucas, slowly and professionally with excellent diction. I was able to learn a lot from your 10 Best tips, and will watch many times again. Many thanks for helping a retiree older person learn how to use her new macbook air + iphoto. I will work my way up to doing a slideshow with music . All the best to you!!
Aw thank you! Great to hear! And if you ever want to book a consult with me I love to do one on one consulting with people all over the world. Our seniors discount works out to about $68usd per half hour. Reach out anytime. :)
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Ditto everything "shakespearelover8: said. Lucas, you are a total rockstar!
Thank you so much for sharing this ❤
You're welcome! :)
Superb Instructions!! I’m so grateful ..
Thank you! I'm so glad it helped!
- Lucas
Brilliantly delivered! My January goal is to organize my photos - all 9,000 of them! Without this tutorial I am certain I would run away from home before attacking this mountain, now I feel confident. You rock!
Awesome, thank you! Great to hear!
If you run into any photo mountains just reach out and I can help you remotely by facetime and screen sharing! It's about 65usd per half hour. solutions@macinhome.com
- Lucas
Thanks. Great video that covered a multitude in short order. Much appreciated
Glad it helped! :)
Very helpful. Thank you
You're welcome! :)
Thank-you Macinhome!
Such a useful video, so nicely done. Thank you so much
Aw thank you! :)
- Lucas
I’ve been days trying to sort my photos out going back at least ten years, and this is the solution thank you so much!
Awesome! This is the best compliment.
What Phil said!
This video was SO helpful! Thank you!!
Awesome, I am so glad! Reach out anytime. :)
A very careful and thorough discussion. Muchas gracias
You are very welcome! Sorry for the slow reply!
Thanks for this tutorial. For me, it was very helpful and easy to follow.
Great to hear! Thank you! :)
- Lucas
Thank you, I learned lots 👍
Awesome! :)
very informative tutorial.Thanks so much.
You're welcome! :)
- Lucas
wow! i didnt know i need this video! thanks man!
Awesome! Love that feedback. :) I hope more people find it!
- Lucas
Excellent tutorial. thank you
Great to hear! :)
This was so helpful! Thanks so much. I’ll book an appointment for sure.
Awesome Emily! I will be happy to help anytime, when you are ready!
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Very helpful, thanks
You bet! :)
I am a user of Photos and I still learned tips. Thanks.
Awesome! Great to hear. :)
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Thanks a lot!!
You're welcome! :)
very good explanation.
Last year when my phone was stolen I felt somehow..relived. That way I didn't have to go through 7000 photos on it hehe
This year you video showed me I CAN DO THIS! ;)
YOU GOT THIS
Brilliant
thanks!
You bet!
Thank you for this concise yet easily understandable video! Was questioning my decision to go with Mac, but feel confident after seeing this video. Thank you!
Great to hear! 😊
- Lucas
Thanks for the advice. Usually the companies release new apps or change the actual. It happened with Apple photo app. Sometimes we take too long time organizing things and after everything change. My photos are in chronological order and have titles, it will help me to find them in the all library. I’ll follow careful your UA-cam video instruction because I think to be more practical. My urge music library is another issue, but I’ll take step by step. Thanks so much!
You are welcome - let me know if you need a hand. Yes you are right apps change but the Photos app has been the same for almost 10 years now, and I doubt it will change dramatically... you can keep your photos in folders and dates but also bring them into the Photos app so you can see them all nicely in one place.
Great I knew absolutely none of this - He is great I recommend having your pictures open and stopping him to practice what he is saying Much thanks. Now I will give it atry.
Thank you Joan! Glad my video was helpful! Reach out anytime, I'd be happy to assist.
- Lucas
great starter video with critical or "need to know" content
Thank you Carol! High praise!
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Thanks for this. I couldn't figure Photos out, having been a Linux user for about 20 years. I've been looking for a program like Shotwell to run on this iMac. Maybe now I can start using the built-in app.
Nice! Yes I think Apple has finally figured out photos and photo syncing...
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This video tutorial on Apple Photos is great. Unfortunately, I just discovered it today. Why? I was in search of something for my wife to see since she was having some difficulty. Keep in mind that I was a former Systems Engineer for Apple and worked the education market. I didn't really mess with Photos (the former iPhoto) that much since my specialty was in networking (on iApps there). So, thanks for coming to the rescue.
Hey great to hear, thank you! Apple has come such a long way since iPhoto, MobileMe, and Photo Stream... the current iteration of Photos and iCloud Photo Library is fantastic.
Email me anytime if you want a hand. lucas@macinhome.com
- Lucas
That's the best video so far, they have really complicated things since iPhoto! I'm going to have to see this video many more times! I did make a new file, but when I drag and drop it doesn't stick, same thing with a thumb drive, I'll try side bar, didn't see that before!
Nice! Happy to help more if you need!
- Lucas
Thank heavens I've found Lucas and his team who know what they are doing! I don't. This was great.
Aw thanks! Glad to help!! :)
- Lucas
easy and great information, thank you so much. wish me luck, I have 40k photos to clean up!
Woohoo great! Good luck! :)
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Lucas, Hello from a first-timer to your UA-cam channel. I just subscribed. I agree with previous comments --- you provide excellent instruction videos! Like many other folks, I am just beginning to learn Apple Photos on my Mac. Having recently retired, I now can find the long-desired time to think and act on collecting and cataloging my thousands of images. One initial aspect of using Apple Photos that I have not really seen addressed in the many videos I have seen is --- dealing with all of the initial original photos (that will be imported into Apple Photos) and how do prepare source images prior to import and then finally what to do with the source images. Prior to ever using Apple Photos, I have a very healthy computer folder system of my images, so I am working on trying to improve the folder collection before embarking on importing them into Apple Photos. One thing to note is that I have a huge amount of RAW (unprocessed) Canon images, many of which I use for processing into prints, etc, so I love having the RAW images. Now back to my train of thought --- Does Apple Photos do anything with incorporating the folder structure of the originals? Should I create more than one Apple Photos Library for major groups of photos, or just import them ALL to one Apple Photos Library? Then, what do I do with the original images that are on the base computer system outside of Apple Photos? Do I continue to maintain them, adding new originals, then importing those into Apple Photos, allowing the original computer-side image folder structure to grow and be used as an emergency duplicate of all originals (and all photos that are also in Apple Photos), or do I just delete all of the originals that are outside of Apple Photos? As I said, I really have not discovered a discussion on this facet of pre-Apple Photos photo handling and management. Thank you for your great instruction. 😃
Great to meet you! I help my clients with those exact questions all the time... so maybe it's best we schedule a one on one consult. But the short and more general version of my advice is I would import that batch of named and curated folders/photos into the Photos app. I have a specific way of doing that, that creates albums for each folder you made. So in short your folder names are preserved. Then I set the Photos app to "download originals" when syncing with iCloud, assuming your Mac has enough space. Once the photos have all synced with iCloud and you see them on your phone then you can delete the original files and folders from your Mac but I usually just say move those onto an external hard drive and label it "cold storage, original photos imported into iCloud on X date". Then you only ever interact with the photos from then on, using the Photos app and iCloud Photos. I never, NEVER recommend making multiple Photos Libraries because they are very cumbersome to switch between if you ever want to make a photo book or something like that. I would only ever recommend one Photos Library, synced with iCloud so it shows up on all your devices. Yes the Photos app now does an excellent job with RAW photos. Tons you can do with those!
For your specific needs and questions we should talk one on one. Book into my calendar if you like - anytime - from this link: macinhome.com/booking/
Cheers,
Lucas :)
Thank you so much for an unbelievably quick reply! Greatly appreciated. I will seriously consider setting up an appointment with you, which would be excellent for me. I will check out your website. Thanks again for such a prompt reply, which is so rare in today's world. Stay tuned ---
@@walterreil4001 You're welcome! Glad to help. When you import the folders into the Photos app go one at a time to start... you drag the folder from your Finder down onto the Photos app on the Dock at the bottom of your screen. Then Photos will open an import window and you'll see a checkbox in the top right for "keep folder organization" which is the one that makes albums based on your folder names.
Lucas, Again, thank you for this update. A lot to think about to begin with. I am not quite ready to start importing, so this will play importantly in my upcoming effort. So, my idea of still maintaining ALL of my original source images in my external hard drive, adding to them as I take photos, should still work, then only having to import the new photos to Apple Photos as I go. I am noodling on also syncing Apple Photos with iCloud --- I have to look at how much storage I have available in iCloud and how much storage will be required by all of my photos in Apple Photos. As I mentioned in a comment in another video of yours this morning, about death planning, I have an introductory phone call scheduled with Kadir this Wednesday at 10 AM --- when I set up the schedule, Kadir was automatically assigned for the call. Thank you.
Great tutorial, tkanks! One thing makes me wonder though... if I import photos from an externat SSD to Photos App, where they will be stored? The issue is I have very little internal storage on my Mac. Tahnks for helping and keep up the good work!
Thank you! :) When you import photos they go *inside* the Photos Library, wherever that is. You can see where the Photos Library is from Photos Preferences. If you are low on storage on your Mac and you have a bigger external SSD it can be a very good move to put the Photos Library on the external SSD. There are some technical steps you would need to do to move it there if it's syncing with iCloud currently though. Feel free to book a time with me and I will help! macinhome.com/booking/
- Lucas
How funny to see Lugano! I used to live there.'
Lugano was so beautiful! The drive in by the tracks was stunning.
- Lucas
Lucas, please tutorial how to use Magic Mouse (tips and tricks). thank you
Ok I will put it on the list! What kinds of things would you like to know?
great video! thanks 🙏 . how come some albums from my macbook are not appearing on my phone?
Sorry for the slow reply! Do you still have this issue? If so I would bet that either your MacBook or iPhone or both are disconnected from iCloud Photo Library. On the Mac you can check that by opening the Photos app, going to the photos menu in the top left -> Preferences, then under iCloud enable iCloud Photo Library. On the iPhone go into Settings, tap your name at the top, iCloud, then Photos. Enable iCloud Photo Library there too.
Hugely useful, thank you. Just to be sure: If I want to nest similar albums in one spot, I create a folder, yes? Albums go into folders?
Yes, folders contain albums. You can nest multiple albums in one folder. Similar or not. :)
- Lucas
Super helpful. Best wishes in 2024 ! ;-)
Thank you! I just finished a new one of these for 2024 so stay tuned! I will post it in the next few weeks here.
Any suggestion on looking at subsets of the photos if you do have 200K, can I select one year at a time or something? can't see how to pair down to even start
Can you explain files and smart albums?
Thanks but how do I save and share a slide show ? Thanks !
Make a video how to merge multiple photo library‘s. I have some old ones that I need to migrate to a new photos library
I probably won't do that as there are so many variables... but I would be happy to help you one on one if you need that! macinhome.com/appointment/
- Lucas
You can do it in Monterey go to your mail. Photo library import select the other photo library beware any edits won’t come over only the originals.
Nice tutorial.
Questions: how do I sort or change the order of my photos within an album? And how can I sort of change the order of my photos in a slide show?
Go to the album, then to the View menu in the top left, and Sort -> choose the one you want. If you want manual sorting just drag them around within the album.
I am brand new to Mac, enjoyed the tutorial greatly, I am currently struggling with renaming a batch of photos with long string names that look like Mac addresses. All photos are taken with an iPhone 11 Pro.
Sorry for the slow reply but this is definitely something you can use the Mac app "Automator" for. Comment here if you still need a hand and we can find a time.
Thank you, let me take a look at this app. Your videos and knowledge are so good I am confident I''ll get this with your continued help.
good clear tutorial thanks. I am interested in getting rid of duplicates. I don't know why or how but the photos app seems to have made hundreds of duplicates & also head & shoulder photos from group photos & others. I started going through the thumb nail photos & deleting one of the two but then I noticed one was poor quality, blurry , so I had to have them full size to look at the quality. can you please help me. I have over 15000 photos.
Hi Tjohn! Yes I can help with that. I have a few techniques that will save a ton of time. We can book a remote screen sharing session when convenient for you. I charge $72.50 USD per half hour. Send me an email and we can find a time!
- Lucas
solutions@macinhome.com
Can you please share info. on how to link/upload photos from iphone to mac? I am anxious to follow many of these steps, but need all my photos there first. (I know, I am bit behind.)
Hi Christina! I'm sorry for the slow reply! In case you still needed help with this I would just make sure both iPhone and Mac are using iCloud Photo Library. That usually means also paying monthly for storage in iCloud. On the iPhone you go into Settings, tap your name at the top, then iCloud. Go into Photos and turn on iCloud Photo Library. On the Mac, open the Photos app and go into the Photos menu in the top left, then Preferences, and in the iCloud section turn on iCloud Photos. If you need a hand let me know! Happy to book a consult with you. Here's my booking link: macinhome.com/booking/
- Lucas
Hello, and thanks for this awesome channel.
I recently got my first Macbook and it automatically downloaded all the photos from my iPhone through iCloud. This auto syncing is making me wonder : will importing pictures from my camera going to add them on the cloud too ? If qo, how could I prevent it ?
Yes if you import photos from your camera into the Photos app, and iCloud Photo Library is turned on, those photos will go into the main iCloud Library as well. But why would you want to prevent that?
- Lucas
Thank you for your tips. The question and problem I have now is data management. My mac and iPhone are full of images. How do you manage that? Buying a new Mac and new iPhone is not an option.
It's a good question with a not-so-quick answer. I would probably need to see your exact situation. Usually you can find some space to free up in the Mac, otherwise you can use the iCloud feature "Optimize Mac Storage" or "Optimize iPhone Storage" to help with that. Let me know if you still need a hand!
Great video! What's your best way to manage very large libraries? Say 2TB that's on an external drive? I've broken this up into 2 libraries, but feels like my machine still chokes trying to even scroll. Is it time for a new computer?
Good question... this comes up a lot. The actual problem is the hard drive type/speed. If you have a rotational hard drive (spinning platter) with a big photo library, it is always dog slow. Whether it's inside the Mac or on an external doesn't matter. Dog slow. I recommend getting a 2TB or 4TB external SSD and merging those two photo libraries again. This is something I can help you with remotely with FaceTime and screen sharing. I charge 145usd/hr. Happy to do a half hour or 1hr to set you up for success. solutions@macinhome.com
- Lucas
@@lucasmacinhome Thanks for the reply, I did just that! Purchased a new M1 Mac & a 2TB SSD to move that library. Using iCloud photos to help in the process. Works much better now!
@@ShahBrionez Awesome! Sorry for the slow reply but I am glad you got it! Did you get your two libraries merged? You can do that using iCloud Photo Library... just get one in sync then open the second library, "set as system library" which will turn off iCloud Photo Library, then turn iCloud Photo Library back on.
@@lucasmacinhome Yes, doing that now. Exported photos by year and am importing them as we go. I'm 90% complete with the project. I'm impressed how Apple handles these iCloud photos on the phone. The space is relatively small when they are stored in the cloud!
Great video! I will say though. I really wish there was a keyboard shortcut to send photos to an album (instead of dragging them)...
Totally agree!!! The only other two options are right click -> Add To, or use the keyword manager with a key assigned for a certain keyword, make a smart album for that keyword, and you can do it all much faster by using arrow keys, press the key for the keyword, then go into the smart album and command-a and add to album.
- Lucas
Great tips indeed! May I ask: if I delete a photo from my Iphone, does it delete it also on my MAC from the Photo folder please?
Normally yes it will if you are correctly setup with both Mac and iPhone connected to iCloud Photo Library. If it's not deleting then there's a disconnect. Let me know if you want a hand, I can help you remotely! macinhome.com/appointment/
- Lucas
I have ton of photos organized in many folders saved in my external hard drive. I would like to organize it in my new Mac. The video is helpful, but I have to go slow. Should I transfer all my photos or from the 2021 going back?
That's up to you... I usually recommend getting all the photos into the Photos app, and into iCloud, so you have them all in one place and you don't need to go looking for old photos in folders anymore. It's a pretty big job but you can go folder by folder and import them bit by bit into correctly-named albums. I've helped with that kind of project many times. Feel free to grab a "new client" time from my calendar anytime. macinhome.com/booking/
- Lucas
How to transfer my pictures to external hard drive
Thanks for the Tutorial. BTW, how do I empty my Favorite file once I have put them into an album? I tried to delete the Favs but it also deleted them in my album.
You can "empty" the favourites by selecting all with command-a then un-favouriting them by clicking the heart or pressing period on the keyboard.
Very helpful, thanks! I just need to mention that you start off the video with mentioning that it won't work if you sit and delete a bunch, but then you start the process by doing exactly that?
I think my point in the start was less so that it won't work if you sit and delete a bunch, and more so that you don't need to worry about it / don't need to stress about it. If you want to be a hoarder you can be a hoarder. And then I teach people how to delete photos if they want to do that! :)
- Lucas
@@lucasmacinhome , in the end I did follow your tips and my library looks organised and trimmed now. It's nice to be able to actually browse through events now, instead of having to hunt for photos
@@AdriaanPretorius That's great news! Good work making that happen!
- Lucas
Hi, Thank you this video! It is really helpful. I have a problem. I bought a new mac.I had my photo library stored on a hard drive with my old mac. When I plugged the hard drive into my new mac, it did something to my files and now I can not open PHOTOS any more on my old mac. The system keeps asking me to upgrade Photos. My old mac is a 2012 MacBook. At the moment it has a photos 5 on it. I have just upgraded the laptop to Catalina. I do not know how to upgrade PHOTOS . I do not think it is possible. Thank you!
Yes if you open the photo library from the new Mac it converts it to the new format... I don't recommend trying to use Photos on both the old Mac and new unless they can both be the exact same OS! There is a better way to do this... let me know if you want to book a time with me. I charge 145usd/hr.
- Lucas
solutions@macinhome.com
When I load raw files from my Sony a1 are they the complete file when editing - not a thumb nail or JPEG? How to cull with a constant enlargement setting. Every time I try he photo jumps back to normal size.
Not sure exactly what you mean... but the later macOS versions do handle Raw just fine. So you can be looking at and editing a raw image in the Photos app. For the other questions I would want to see what's happening on your Mac - so you can book with me as a new client if you like. macinhome.com/booking/
Thanks for the video. Just a quick question ... I have imported thousands of photos over a period of time and have partially organized them into albums. But when I look at the "Imports", the photos still show up there and I do not recognize which are the ones that are already placed in an album and which are the ones for which I need to create an album. Can you please help?
Good question... you can get around this with keywords. Go to the View menu -> Metadata -> Keywords and you'll see a little white tag on any photo that has a keyword on it. Then go into your albums and select-all with command-a, then get info with command-i, and add a keyword like "albumed" which isn't a word but hey it makes sense. Then in the Imports section you'll be able to see which ones have that little white tag.
@IEE NZ Innovative Engines & Engineering Yes, you could make a smart album where "keyword" ... "is not" ... "albumed". But you can also go to the View menu and Metadata -> Keywords to be able to see the little tag in the top right for ones that have a keyword assigned.
hi, I use time machine and it shows everything except photos ,how can I fix that? thanks
You would see the Photos Library in your Pictures folder. That's where it likes in the Mac and in the backups.
My wife does wedding photography and so when she uploads them to the iMac Pro.. they upload but not in order as when the picture was taken? Is there a way to have them organized from beginning to the end of the day? Thanks for any help!
Sorry for the slow reply! That might be an issue with her camera... is the date set correctly in the camera? Beyond that I'd like to have a look at it. You can schedule a paid consult with me anytime from here: macinhome.com/booking/ when you're ready!
- Lucas
For me those Foto Organizers are just for consuming the Fotos. I personally organize my fotos on file level naming and its raw metadata
Indeed many people prefer to manually organize photos!
Hi. I have been using a PC with Windows 10 to backup my pictures to an external hd. Instead of using the Windows photos app, I right click on the memory card, iphone, etc., then choose “import photos”. This places each day’s photos in a separate folder. I like this method rather than the iPhoto method which places all my photos in 1 folder then places in correct order and sorts by date only when viewing with iPhoto app. The problem with this is if, for instance, I copy a batch of pictures to a usb drive, dvd, etc. covering multiple dates, it makes it difficult to find a particular picture, based on the date it was taken, if I’m viewing on anything other than iPhoto! Are there any apps, programs, etc. for Mac that uses this format of saving pictures? Maybe I’m just missing something??
Yes! It’s called “image capture” in the applications folder on the Mac.
Thanks for the response! I didn’t know about the “image capture” app! Definitely closer to what I’m used to, however, I really would like something that auto creates a folder named by date for every picture or batch of pictures taken on any given day. For example, Windows import option I mentioned before will import any picture(s) taken one Jan. 1, 2021 into a folder automatically generated and named 2021_01_01 and so on. I think I can also change the date format if I’d like.
On a Mac, I can go to finder, change view options to sort by “date created”, then “show date created column” which would work, however, it only keeps the date created info on photos! For some reason all the video files (MP4, AVI, etc) are listed as created on the date they were imported even though they are imported along with the photos!?!
I do have one question. I started to organise my photos by adding them and then creating an albums from the ALL PHOTOS.
It make more difficult when I add more and more photos and the one already organised are still showing in ALL PHOTOS. Is there a way to fix it?
Adding photos to albums does not move/remove them from All Photos. When you look at All Photos, you will always see all of them in the list even if they are in albums. That's just how Photos works. There are benefits to having it work this way... if you delete a photo from All Photos, then it will delete it from any album it's in. If you do an edit to a photo in All Photos, that edit will show up in all the albums that photo is in. Etc.
why my photo and recording video is in the same files (all photo) and how to split them into two files which is all video and all photos.
You can't, sadly. But you can use filters or albums to see them separately. When you go to "all photos" you will always see everything in your library including photos and videos. If you go to "All Photos" and look in the top right, you will see "Showing: All Items". You can change that to videos or photos.
I have a question. Before Google Picasa got discontinued, it had an option to show all nested folders in the same view divided into sections. Does Apple Photos feature this?
No, not at all. When you move photos into the Photos app you are trusting that app to handle the files and folders behind the scenes, within the "Photos Library" package that lives in the Pictures folder. If you want an app more like Picasa that manages folders in the Finder then I would recommend Adobe Bridge.
Okay. Thank you for your feedback.
Is it possible to sync the Photos app with folders in Finder, or do I have to arrange each one separately?
Sadly the Photos app cannot sync with folders in the Finder. If you do have photos in a folder in the Finder, you can go into Photos app under File menu and Import... to "review for import" to see if those photos in the folder are in your Photos Library or not. Not sure what you mean by arrange each one separately?
@@lucasmacinhome Okay thank you very much! This is what I meant
Can you explain how to share photos or album if the photos are stored on an external hard drive with MacBook? Thanks in advance
When you share them to someone, what will they do with them? If you want to share full quality photos I would share them with Dropbox. Just make a folder in Dropbox and copy the Dropbox link, to send to them. If they just want to see the photos, I would import them into Photos app and then make a "Shared Album" in iCloud.
@@lucasmacinhome Thank you so much for your response.
Once a photo in All Photos is in an album, can you tell it was put in an album when looking at all photos? I am used to folders where the photos only exist in one folder. I struggle to grasp the idea of albums (which remind me of labels from gmail, except when you label and then archive, the email no longer shows in the inbox - instead it shows in All Mail). Apple photos has many perks. But idk if I can get past this albums vs folders concept.
Yeah, good questions... I just checked and I don't see a way to tell if a photo is in an album, from the main All Photos list. What are you hoping to do with those albums? I think they're a tool for grouping things, and it's so easy to delete and recreate them that they don't need to be a static or "forever" thing. I only use albums when I need to turn them into a slideshow or book, or to turn them into a shared album. So I guess my question is "why" - what are you trying to use them for? I bet there's a different way to do it.
- Lucas
Folders are a tool for organizing multiple Albums. And yeah Albums are similar to labels in Gmail... an album is just a sub-set of the "All Photos" section. There are perks to having it work that way... if you make changes or edits to a photo in the album, it does modify the original that lives in All Photos as well (and you always have the option to "revert to original" with any edits).
Ponte de Lima :)
Yes! I loved it!
I keep loosing my pics from my albums or my pictures folder. I can't figure it out. Help!!!!!
Sorry for the slow reply! Is this still happening? I would want to see it... Just grab a "new client" time from my online calendar at macinhome.com/booking anytime.
- Lucas
A few years ago Google messed up the dates of ALL my photos. Within the mess, they somehow gave many hundreds of them the year of 4501! Is there a way to bulk change the year to one approximating the era in which these photos were taken? (I know I’m asking a lot.)
P.S. I’m also avidly watching all your videos. I am only 1.5 years an iPhone user, followed by learning the basics of iPad Pro to which I shifted everything from my Windows machine and I’ve spent the last year familiarizing myself with Apple’s culture and language, shortcuts and such, and have now ventured into the latest and greatest MacBook Air with lots of storage so I can really restore my 47 years of precious photo albums to the files and folders that were lost in the transition (because Microsoft’s cloud is different from how Apple deals with photos). Your videos have been teaching me a lot! Thank you so much.
Sorry to hear that happened! It might be possible to get the original dates back… unlikely but possible. I would want to see an example of the messed up photos. You can bulk edit photo dates yes… there’s a good app for that called “a better finder attributes”. Problem is if you have some from 2005, some from 2006, some from 2007, etc… it can’t detect that so you have to first group the photos by approximate date before then using the app to fix the date in batches. I’ve done a lot of that type of work - feel free to book with me if you want a hand!! macinhome.com/booking/
- Lucas
what is period key?
Put your finger on the M key on the keyboard and move 2 to the right. :)
Is it possible to hide a shared album? I created and shared it with a friend, don't want to take that option away from her, but I don't want to see it constantly first thing on my phone. Help?
The only way to hide a shared album is to just turn off "shared albums" in your iPhone settings. You just go into Settings, tap your name at the top, iCloud, Photos, and uncheck "Shared Albums". All that does is hide them visually so you don't see them on the phone anymore.
- Lucas
I moved a ton of old photos from on old HP laptop to an external hard drive to then import them to my MAC. When I imported them they populated the photo app with the date they were moved to the external drive. So now I have many many photos out of chronological order - How do I re-order them in correct date order ? The metadata has the incorrect date. If I put them in albums by the correct date, or event, will they remain in the library out of order ?
Nevermind, I see it under "image" - thanks for the very informative video !
@@lynnsmith6221 Yes, you got it! Nice work! :)
- Lucas
I am a new macos user after 15+ years of using Windows. Can you tell me where the delete key is on my Macbook pro 13? and how do I delete the photos from the library? Because the delete key does not exist...
Hi Cenk! I definitely recommend watching my windows to Mac video, if you haven't already... the delete key on the MacBook Pro 13" should be in the top right above the backslash. Is it not there? Maybe you are talking about forward-delete? You can get that with Fn-delete (hold Fn and press delete). Deleting photos from the library, you just go to All Photos and click the photo you want to delete, and press the delete key.
@@lucasmacinhome Thank you very much for your detailed answer. Actually it was my bad that I had no idea about that keyboard spellings are different from country to country. For my case, actually Im using the Turkish keyboard which a "delete" written key does not exist in my keyboard. Because the Turkish version does not have any words on the keyboard instead it has symbols for them. So, the delete key on my mac is actually the button with the backspace symbol as in the traditional full-size keyboards. Thats why I could not find it for days... This is the same case for the other keys: tab or caps lock are also depicted in symbols but not as words. However thank you for your support !!
The into tho
Lol what about it?
A weird thing happens after I move/rearrange a photo or group of photos within a folder. I select a photo(s), move them to a new location (this often means trying to rapid scroll up or down within the folder's contents), and after closing the app (Mac photos, Version 7.0 (411.0.120)) and coming back to it a few hours/days later, the ones I've moved/rearranged (along with many other photos I didn't move), are scrambled, displaced, and not in the order I had just put them in.
I've had this problem for a long time -- years -- and it's very, very annoying. I am running the latest version of Mac OS (12.0.1 Monterey), and to make things worse, lately, when I try to grab one or a group of photos to move, I am unable to get the program to even scroll up or down automatically/rapidly like I used to. So I'm forced to move the photo(s) one screen view at a time (talk about annoying!). Another a more recent issue: when I select the photo(s) I want to move, the program then automatically selects a random photo or photos WITH my selection, so that I end moving two or more unselected photos inadvertently (very, very annoying!).
But for sure, the worst problem is seeing hours and hours of me arranging photos in the order I want them, just to come back to the folder and see them scrambled and disarranged all over again. $99 for a 30 minutes is a lot of money for me, but I'd be willing to pay you IF you are familiar with this technical issue, know how to fix it, and that I don't have to waist 15 of my 30-minute window explaining what I've outlined above.
Please let me know if you're able to help. Surprisingly, I can find absolutely NOTHING about this on UA-cam or any other tech advice I've tried to find. I'd love to know if anyone else has shared these issues and have any suggestions. Again, I'm open to your services if you understand what's going on and feel you can finally resolve this issue. Many thanks in advance.
Honestly I wouldn't bother fighting it... I've never found it to be reliable and I gave up on that as a reliable organizing method. You can only keep them in a certain order when you make a slideshow project. In your shoes if album order was that important I would rename them (command-i) and give them numbers in the front of the file name, then View menu -> Sort -> keep sorted by title. There are too many processes and automatic things in the Photos app that bounce the photo sorting back to date/name.
- Lucas
Or you can "adjust date and time" from the Image menu to set the dates and then sort by oldest/newest from that same View menu. But keep in mind if you adjust date and time the photos move up or down in the main Library chronology... it affects their main sorting date. Beyond that I would want to know the real/bigger goal and if there's a better way to achieve that goal. Why is it important to keep the order in a way other than date?
@@lucasroberts4891 ...Hi Lucas, thanks so much for your very insightful response. I can't tell you how much I appreciate it and how frustrating this has been. Even your _"I wouldn't bother fighting it. . . there are too many processes and automatic things in Photos..."_ response is helpful just in acknowledging what this is and knowing that this has to do with Photo's inner demons.
In fact, this is important to me, for example, as a psychologist, in one folder I collect photos of different psychology-related gifs. In another 'humor' folder, different gifs and photos of humorous pictures, photos, and expressions. In both cases, I acquire them over time and I like sorting and grouping specific related areas of psychology or humor in one area together for easy access when I need to reference them. (e.g., anxiety, PTSD, bipolar disorders, or 'Monday morning humor', relationship humor, etc.).
Because I accumulate these gifs over time, I like to group them together for easy reference -- and not by date. I'm actually surprised this is not a more common practice and therefore more of an issue with Photos and their lack of resolving this problem. After all, they do allow us to move a photo(s) from one spot to another, why does this become so much of a problem when wanting to group many photos over time?
So sorry about the long-winded response Lucas. Again, I appreciate your suggestions and insights. I suppose I ought to learn how to sub-divide my folders, but at this point I can't imagine how, and there are so many minor areas of reference and cross referencing of my "areas of reference" that that could be daunting. If you have any more suggestions, please feel free to let me know. I can't tell you how much I appreciate you taking the time you already have.
Many, many thanks Lucas!
@@JeddieT you’re welcome! I would actually use keywords and smart albums for what you’re describing. I should make a video about that but I haven’t yet. You can set up a keyword for each of those groupings and tag photos really quickly with simple keyboard shortcuts, then they show up automatically in smart albums set to search for each keyword term.
@@JeddieT that is something I could show you in a half hour consult if you want to book a time in my calendar for January! macinhome.com/booking/
How about explaining smart Albums in a UA-cam
I will put it on the list for sure! :)
Nice however I’ve seen everyone else using smart albums ?? Don’t u use them ? What’s the point of them really if all this works fine
Smart albums I only really use in rare cases... like if a client has an iPhone and also a Canon SLR, and they want to see only photos they've taken with the iPhone...
I think the best way to explain Smart Albums is, ‘Right Tool, for the Right Job’.
I would search UA-cam for Smart Albums. There are a lot of excellent descriptions and demonstrations showing the results.
Smart Albums is something I should use a lot more to obtain specific results, but I keep forgetting to use them!
If you create albums on your Mac, why don’t the same albums appear on your IPad?
You definitely will see them on the iPad if you have iCloud Photo Library enabled on both Mac and iPad, which usually also means paying for iCloud storage. This is something I can help with in a remote consult if you want a hand! Just look for Lucas on this page: macinhome.com/booking/
What are the odds that you have photos from Portugal.
I loved Portugal!
I am really starting to hate apple; the new soft wear is garbage. music hate it, photos hate it ... I'm trying to make photo albums, the problem I have is half the photos and none of the videos will move across to photos. is there a soft wear that just works everything just works on windows no problems. I am really thinking of turning my 5.1 mac pro into a windows computer ... advise or why is it being stubbing thanks.
This is usually a learning curve thing. If I can help you understand better what's happening under the hood then you will probably like it more.
720p in 2020???? I can't go full screen without your video becoming fuzzy and loosing details. I'm using a 27" 4K monitor.
Yeah sorry... next one will be 4K!
Good effort, but no value unless you opened the photos app for the first time in your life. Not even any mentions of folders.
Thanks for the feedback! If you have specific questions let me know and I can include them in a future video. - Lucas
why the sudden stupid music to scare us when u change your thoughts!
The goal is definitely not to scare you! Sorry about that!
Beginner stuff. Not efficient.
This was so helpful! Thank you!
You're so welcome!