My Photos are no longer showing up as an option for uploads

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My Photos are no longer showing up as an option for uploads

When uploading new work to Adobe Portfolio or Society6 or similar, on my MacBook, Photos always came up as an option to choose the images from.

Now, not having knowingly altered any settings, the photos aren’t available to upload from and I have to go in a stupid round the houses way to get them, I have to airdrop them from my iPad Photos and then choose them from downloads.

What’s happened? How can I get Photos to show up again?

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 11.1

Posted on Dec 26, 2020 1:53 PM

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TonyCollinet

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Dec 26, 2020 3:21 PM in response to Mossmiss

Hi -

There seem to be a lot of reports of this issue at the moment. Sorry, I have no solution, but a better workaround is to export the images from the photos app to a folder, and upload them to your website (or whatever) from there.

Select the photos and go to file>export

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Mossmiss Author

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Dec 26, 2020 3:24 PM in response to TonyCollinet

Thank you Tony, yes, that’s what I’ve been doing, it’s such a palaver rather than the beautifully simple way it worked before, I wish they’d sort it out!

ive looked under all the settings and preferences that I can think of and can’t find anything to change it back

thank you for replying, I hope you’re having a nice Christmas and wish you a happy new year

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Mossmiss Author

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Dec 26, 2020 4:09 PM in response to TonyCollinet

Oh yes, I see, I suppose I meant putting them in a different folder and getting them from there- usually it’s something I’ve just completed you see and it’s not yet turned up in photos on my Mac, so it’s quicker to airdrop than wait for the Photos to sync 🙂

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Dec 26, 2020 3:45 PM in response to Mossmiss

Sorry - you said you'd been airdropping them from your ipad. Much easier to export from photos on your mac. 🙂

Happy new year back to you.

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