I have some specially arranged albums in Photos that I use for work that I want to separate out into a new library.
Is there any way to do this without creating a brand new library, individually importing the photos from the special albums, and then redoing all of the arranging to put them into the nice albums I have in the original library?
Isn't it possible to just import an album?
iMac 27″, macOS 13.1
Biscut wrote:
I have some specially arranged albums in Photos that I use for work that I want to separate out into a new library.
Is there any way to do this without creating a brand new library, individually importing the photos from the special albums, and then redoing all of the arranging to put them into the nice albums I have in the original library?
Isn't it possible to just import an album?
did you try the export option..?
It would seem you could select your "Album" export / then Import to a new Library...
ref: Photos User Guide for Mac - Apple Support
Thank you! Well, that method gets the photos exported but I can't seem to get Photos to retain the album structure. So I would need to rebuild all of the albums from scratch.
I have about 15 albums, all with photos arranged in a particular order. And the albums are arranged in folders to organize them. Exporting albums puts the photos in folders arranged by date—which is not helpful in this case. Exporting folders does not seem possible.
I want to keep all the folders and albums and photo arrangements within albums.
You might try this in the Photos community. The powerphotos app (fatcatsoftware.com)may be useful.
Thank you, Bruce.
Actually that's what I wanted to do in the first place. Not having been here for awhile I found the navigation options during posting a bit confusing so my post ended up here.
Copy album to new library?
