how can I find and review individual photos in my Time Machine Backup of my Photos Library?

how can I find and review individual photos in my Time Machine Backup of my Photos Library?

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 12.6

Posted on Mar 2, 2023 12:48 PM

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Posted on Mar 3, 2023 10:03 AM

You will have to restore the Photos Library from the Time Machine backup to some folder, where you are not overwriting your current library. Then open the restored copy in Photos to find the photos you want to retrieve.


Photos cannot dopen a Photos Library directly as a part of a Time Machine backup. and since macOS 10.15 Catalina Photos is renaming the original image files in the Photos Library package, so we can no ,oger access them directly in the package and find them by the filename.


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Mar 3, 2023 10:03 AM in response to ejnfrommn

You will have to restore the Photos Library from the Time Machine backup to some folder, where you are not overwriting your current library. Then open the restored copy in Photos to find the photos you want to retrieve.


Photos cannot dopen a Photos Library directly as a part of a Time Machine backup. and since macOS 10.15 Catalina Photos is renaming the original image files in the Photos Library package, so we can no ,oger access them directly in the package and find them by the filename.


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