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Hi. I’ve just created a new photo album but the new album isn’t appearing in Finder and therefore isn’t syncing to my iPad. All the albums I’ve previously created appear fine and sync with no problem. Can someone help resolve this please?
Hi Tony. Thanks very much for your time with this and apologies if I’m not being clear, this is all new to me. You are right I’m syncing using finder/usb cable.
so I’ve created a new album in photos (not a new library). I’ve done this in photos using the My Albums -+ new album function. I’ve added some photos to it. All good so far.
i went to sync on my iPad so into finder. The new album does not appear in finder either in the list of albums under pictures or when I plug the iPad in and look at the photos section of the sync pane. Does that make sense?
here’s the new album 2023 in Photos
and here’s the list in Finder
it’s this same view in the sync pane.
hope that makes sense.
Hi Tony. Thanks very much for your time with this and apologies if I’m not being clear, this is all new to me. You are right I’m syncing using finder/usb cable.
so I’ve created a new album in photos (not a new library). I’ve done this in photos using the My Albums -+ new album function. I’ve added some photos to it. All good so far.
i went to sync on my iPad so into finder. The new album does not appear in finder either in the list of albums under pictures or when I plug the iPad in and look at the photos section of the sync pane. Does that make sense?
here’s the new album 2023 in Photos
and here’s the list in Finder
it’s this same view in the sync pane.
hope that makes sense.
I've misunderstood - it sounds like you are syncing your photos with finder/USB cable rather than with iCloud. Is this correct?
However, your question is still not clear - because you said the second option was correct (a new library), but then went on to repeat it is a new folder/album.
To be clear - a library is a data structure which holds all your photos and all the infrormation about them, such as edit, keywords, albums etc etc. It is normally stored in your pictures folder, and called "photos library.photoslibrary" You create a new one by holding down the option key when starting photos and then get the pane in shown below with the "create new" button.
An album is just one the part of a library. Which you create within the photos app itself and add some of your pictures to it. I am thinking it is an album you have created, not a new library. Am I correct.
Hi
Do you mean an album in the photos app? Finder isn't used to view albums in the photos app, that is what the photos app is for.
Only pictures in photos can be synced with ipad.
Or do you mean you've created a new library for photos. Only one library (your system library) can be synced with iCloud - and hence your iPad.
Thanks Tony. It’s the latter one. I’ve created an album in photos but it doesn’t appear as a folder/album when I sync my iPad ie it isn’t on the list of albums/folders to sync. Sounds like I need to sync the system library somehow to get it to be recognised?
Certain Photo albums not appearing in Finder list
