Photos in Album and Recently Saved but not in Library

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Photos in Album and Recently Saved but not in Library

I moved about 200 pictures from a shared google drive into an album in my Photos app, on my Mac (Sequoia 15.6.1) . The reason that I copied them straight into an Album is that they are all of a single event and I wanted to see them as a slide show. I see the same pictures in the Recently Saved, but I was surprised when I noticed that the same pictures are not showing in my Library. I have tried some of the suggestions that I've seen on other threads. I made sure that the library is set to show "All items", I right clicked on one of the pics in the Recently Salved and "Show in All Photos" is greyed out.

When I try to sync my Lybrary, it shows that there are 204 pictures to be synced, but it has been stuck on sync for hours and with no progress.

MacBook Pro 14″

Posted on Sep 10, 2025 01:58 PM

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Answer 1

Old Toad

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Sep 10, 2025 03:07 PM in response to daniellarodrig

Control (right) - click on one of the photos in the album or Recently Saved album and select Show in Library. That will take you to the photo in the All Library view. It has to be there but being downloaded from a Shared album it may have a different date taken and not show up where you expect it.

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Answer 2

Sep 14, 2025 09:09 AM in response to daniellarodrig

daniellarodrig wrote: "Show in All Photos" is greyed out.

Wow-- I've never seen that!

I moved about 200 pictures from a shared google drive into an album in my Photos app, on my Mac (Sequoia 15.6.1) .

I'm pleased to say that I have not used Google Photos or a Google Drive. But I wonder what you mean by the above statement. If you just tried to drag them over, there's no guarantee what you got. It's entirely possible that all you got was thumbnail images, and there were no actual pictures transferred. Did you try using File>Import in Photos? Or whatever method Google suggests?

I'd try "moving" the pictures to a folder on the Desktop (or wherever) and, if that worked, use File>Import to import them to Photos.

Let us know how it goes…

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Answer 3

markwmsn

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Sep 12, 2025 09:27 PM in response to Old Toad

Old Toad, the poster said that "Show in All Photos" is greyed out.

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