Thematic Index to Photos for Mac related User Tips - December 2018
The list of user tips in the ASC Communities is continually changing, when user tips are added or updated. Apple's list of Photos User Tips is currently not available with a universal link. Try to use the My Subscription view and filter it by "User Tip"
To make it easier to find back to certain user tips, I have made a list, that is sorted thematically:
A. User Tips
General Usage:
- Photos Overview
- Old Toad: Moments in Photos are the New Events
- léonie: New to Photos? Some Considerations on How to Design your First Photos Library in Photos 5.0 (February 21,2020)
- léonie: When should we repair a Photos Library? - Apple Community (February 13, 2020)
- léonie: Does a large Photos Library make Photos slow? Should we split the library? - Apple Community (September 10, 2020)
- léonie: The Drawbacks of Delete Items After Import When Importing to Photos (June 7, 2020)
- léonie: Corrupted Originals, the Insidious Danger - How to Protect our Photo Libraries - Apple Community (January 5, 2020)
- léonie: How to Split a Photos Library and Preserve the Albums, Metadata, and Adjustments - Apple Community (January 28,2020)
- léonie: Disadvantages of a Referenced Library in Photos - Updated for macOS 10.15 Catalina (April 29, 2020)
- léonie: How to use the free DNG Converter to convert RAW files that are not supported by Photos (December20, 2020)
- léonie: Raw Support Versions on iOS and MacOS - Apple Community (Jan 18,2023)
- léonie: Avoid Night Shift when Adjusting the Colors in Photos (Mar 31, 2017)
- a brody: Using Photos and iPhotos on the same Mac
- léonie: How Photos Handles Time Zones when Importing Photos in Photos 5 on Catalina - Apple Community (June 19, 2020)
- Alley_Cat: Official Apple Feedback link for Photos
- Terence Devlin: The Curse of All Files and All Images and False Duplicates… - iPhoto
- Keith Barkley: The Big Three: Setting your camera for the Best Aperture RAW Results
- Matti Haveri: Movie dates and Photos.app
- leonie: New in Photos 9 on macOS 14 Sonoma: Exporting Photos or Videos from Photos is now saving them with the date taken as the creation date (May 7,2024)
- Tony Collinet: What does Apple Photos for Mac show as a Panorama - Apple Community
- léonie: If Photos cannot play a video - Apple Community (March 17, 2023)
Versions:
- Versions:
- léonie: Changed keyboard shortcuts in Photos 4.0
- léonie: Changed Keyboard Shortcuts and Gestures in Photos 5.0 - Apple Community (December 9, 2019)
- New in Photos 9 macOS 14 Sonoma:
- léonie: New Features in Photos 9 on Sonoma - Apple Community (December 2, 2023)
- léonie: If you are seeing the error message "The Library could not be opened. The Library is on iCloud Drive… - Apple Community (December 2, 2023)
- New in Photos 8 macOS 13 Ventura:
- léonie: An Ubituary of My Photo Stream - Apple Community (July 3, 2023)
- léonie: How to check My Photo Stream in Aperture and iPhoto (July 4,2023)
- léonie: Here's how we can replace My Photo Stream with iCloud Photos… - Apple Community (July 5,2023)
- léonie: How to remove suggested Duplicates from the Duplicates album - Apple Community (February 17, 2023)
- léonie: How to search for Categories with Smart Albums - Apple Community
- How to search for Categories with Smart Albums… - Apple Community (March 6, 2023)
- léonie: Migrating an Aperture Library as a Library is no longer supported on macOS 13 Ventura - Apple Community (October 30, 2022)
- léonie: Things to consider when setting up the Shared iCloud Photos Library in Photo 8 on Ventura (October 25, 2022)
- léonie: If Photos 8 on Ventura cannot open Nikon Z9 RAW files… Tromp1's solution - Apple Community (December 24, 2022)
- New in Photos 7 macOS 12 Monterey:
- léonie: Importing photos directly from another Photos Library into the currently open Library Importing photos directly from another Ph… - Apple Community (November 9, 2021)
- How to extract a still frame from a video in Photos 7 on macOS 12 Monterey https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-250004312 (November 9, 2021)
- New in Photos 6 Big Sur
- léonie: How to extract a Still Frame from a Video Clip in Photos 6 on Big Sur… - Apple Community (December 4, 2020)
- léonie: How to Organise the Hidden Photos in Photos for Mac (macOS 11 Big Sur) - Apple Community (January 20, 2021)
- léonie: How to prevent Photos for Mac from Shortening the names to the First Name only How to prevent Photos for Mac from Shorte… - Apple Community (April 23, 2021)
- léonie: Keywords in Photos 6 on Big Sur - Discrepancy between the Search Results in Smart Albums and the Filter for Hierarchical Keywords Keywords in Photos 6 on Big Sur - Discrep… - Apple Community (April 23, 2021)
- New in Photos 5.0 Catalina:
- léonie: New to Photos? Some Considerations on How to Design your First Photos Library in Photos 5.0 (February 21,2020)
- léonie: Photos on Catalina: If the Photos View vanishes from the sidebar, check if the Mac is in Safe Mode - Apple Community (February 9,2020)
- léonie: How to prepare the Photo Libraries before upgrading to Catalina - Apple Community (December 5, 2019)
- léonie: Implications of shooting HEIF on the iPhone or iPad and How to Control the Format - Apple Community (August 15,2020)
- léonie: Batch Changing Options in Photos 5, macOS 10.15 Catalina (June 24, 2020)
- léonie: About the Duplicate Detection in Photos 5 - Apple Community (December 1, 2019)
- léonie: Changes to the handling of RAW & JPEG pairs - Apple Community (March 25, 2020)
- léonie: Changes to Searching for Text in Photos 5 Catalina (May 22, 2020)
- léonie: How to back up an optimized iCloud Photos Library - Apple Community (December 2, 2019)
- léonie: Managing Hidden Photos in Photos 5 on Catalina (May 15, 2020)
- léonie: How to Simulate Star Rating in Photos 5 on Catalina - Apple Community (May 21, 2020)
- léonie: Photos 5 to Photos 5.3: A work-Around for the changed Smart Album Rule - Person is not ... (January 9, 2020)
- themask: Change Year cover image in macOS Photos (October 13,2020)
- léonie: Problem in Photos 5.0: Referenced Photos do not show in the Places Album - Apple Community (December 23, 2019)
- léonie: Problem in Photos 5 on Catalina: Grey Filenames in the Media Browser - Apple Community (May 11, 2020)
- léonie: Limitations when Using Videos in Slideshows in Photos 5 - Apple Community (June 19, 2020)
- léonie: Photos 5 on macOS 10.15.4 Catalina does not reconnect referenced files fully after moving the originals to a different folder (April 29, 2020)
- léonie: Disadvantages of a Referenced Library in Photos - Updated for macOS 10.15 Catalina (April 29, 2020)
- léonie: Problem in Photos 5.0: The adjusted date is not correctly embedded in the EXIF when exporting from Photos - Apple Community (December 23, 2019)
- léonie: Problems with the Smart Album Rule: Album is not Any in Photos 5.0 - Apple Community (December 2, 2019)
- léonie: How to delete photos while viewing an Album in Photos 5.0 on Catalina - Apple Community. (November 10, 2019)
- léonie: How to display the Date and Time Zone in the Info in Photos in Catalina (November 2, 2019)
- léonie: How to view Moments in Photos 5.0 - Apple Community (October 31, 2019)
- léonie: How Photos 5.0 on Catalina Manages original Files and Filenames. (November 3, 2019)
- léonie: How to find all Unnamed Face in Photos 5 Catalina (November 7, 2019)
- léonie: Work-Around: What to do, when the Faces Circle is jumping around - Apple Community (April 10, 2024)
- léonie: How to use Keywords to Back Up the Named Faces in Photos and Improve the Search for People … - Apple Community (January10, 2020)
- léonie: How to view the titles or filenames below the thumbnails in Photos 5.0 - Apple Community (December 23, 2019)
- léonie: How to Correct Merged People Albums - Apple Community (December 28, 2019)
- léonie: Sorting Albums by Title in Photos - Changes in Photos 5.0 on Catalina (June 7, 2020)
- léonie:
- léonie: Photos 5.0 on Catalina: How to get a list of all albums - Apple Community (April 4,2020)
- léonie: How to find out the albums a photo is in: Jacques Rioux's Script, Monterey version for Photos 7 or later - Apple Community (September 23, 2022)
- léonie: How to find out the albums a photo is in: Jacques Rioux's Script, Catalina Version for Photos 5 - Apple Community (April 4,2020)
- léonie: Script: Find Photos not in Any Album, for Photos 5 on Catalina (May 28,2020)
- léonie: How to Weed out Legacy Media in Photos for Mac - Apple Community (July 4, 2020)
- xsedna: How to find items with missing originals in the library: http://xsedna.de/Sedna/PhotosGetMissingItems.html (I found this nice script in the German forum - removing photos with missing originals helped to get Photos syncing again with iOS devices: Big Sur 11.3 synchronisieren Fotos mit iO… - Apple Community))
- Migrating from Aperture or iPhoto to Photos
- léonie: Thematic Index to the Aperture User Tips - Apple Community
- léonie: How to access Media in iPhoto Libraries … - Apple Community (May 18,2023)
- léonie: How to access the Photos in Aperture Libr… - Apple Community (May 18,2023)
- Old Toad: Photos 4.0 vs iPhoto 9.6.1: Features and Capatibilities
- LarryHN: Links to User tips re migrating from iPhoto to Photos
- léonie: Notes on Migrating an iPhoto Library from iPhoto to Photos for Mac
- léonie: Notes on Migrating an Aperture Library to Photos for Mac, 2019 version (May 7, 2019)
- LarryHN: Details of how Photos handles the migration from iPhoto to Photos
- Barney-15E: Can't Update iPhoto because it is not available in the AppStore - Apple Community
- Browsing, Filters, Searching, Smart Albums, Keywords:
- léonie: For what purpose should we use Titles, Keywords, caption - Apple Community (March 13, 2023)
- léonie: How to view Moments in Photos 5.1 - Apple Community (October 31, 2019)
- léonie: If Photos are apparently missing from an album, check the filters (December 5, 2018)
- léonie: How to Merge Keywords in Photos for Mac (May 9, 2020)
- léonie: How to use the Filters in Photos 4.0 - Apple Community (December 5, 2018)
- léonie: How to organise the Photos by the Camera … - Apple Community (June 19,2010)
- GregBZH35's Script: Create Standard Albums from Smart Albums to Sync with iCloud to iOS Devices (February 16, 2019)
- The Photos Library and iCloud Photo Library:
- Storing the Library on external volumes:
- léonie: Where is it safe to store a Photos Library - 2019 Version (March 10, 2019)
- léonie: How to avoid the Error -36 when copying a Photos Library - Apple Community (February 3, 2020)
- léonie: APFS: How to Fix the Error: iCloud Photos is only available on macOS Standard, macOS Extended and APFS formatted volumes (June 7, 2020)
- léonie: Why is iCloud uploading my entire iCloud photo Library Again after I moved its Location? (August 10,2018)
- Using (an optimised) iCloud Photos Library:
- léonie: Using the Shared iCloud Photos Library to have two separate libraries on all devices - Apple Community (January 22, 2024)
- léonie: Three Good Reasons for Using iCloud Photos Library and when not to use it - Apple Community (May 18, 2020)
- léonie: iCloud Photos Library: Keep regular backups of your iCloud Photos Library - Apple Community (April 26, 2020)
- léonie: How to back up an optimized iCloud Photos Library - Apple Community (December 2, 2019)
- léonie: How to force Photos for Mac to Optimise the Storage Immediately (February 15, 2020)
- Repairing, Rebuilding, Downgrading, Merging, Importing:
- Old Toad: Importing a Photos Library into Another Photos Library: PowerPhotos vs Photos (May 10, 2023)
- léonie: When should we repair a Photos Library? - Apple Community (February 13, 2020)
- léonie: How to Repair a Specific Photos Library in Photos for Mac - Apple Community (May 9, 2020)
- léonie: How to Rebuild Thumbnails in a Photos Library (December 16, 2018)
- léonie: Rebuilding a Photos Library by downloading a new Copy from iCloud - Apple Community (February 15, 2020)
- léonie: Downgrading a Photos Library to a Previous Version of Photos with the Help of iCloud Photos (December 16, 2018)
- léonie: Notes on Merging Photos Libraries, 2019 Version, (March 3, 2019)
- coffee donuts: How to recover missing albums from the SQLite files https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251758161?answerId=253497024022#253497024022
- iCloud Photos Library on Several Devices
- léonie: How to keep the iCloud Photos library small and archive other photos locally on a Mac… - Apple Community (August 12, 2023)
- léonie: How to check, which Items are currently being uploaded to iCloud Photos - Apple Community (March 25, 2020)
- léonie: Use Photos and iCloud Photos on multiple Mac Computers (December 1, 2018)
- gail from maine: Clearing up some iCloud and Photos Questions
- léonie: If iCloud Photo Library cannot be turned on again because of lack of cloud storage after moving or restoring a Photos Library (December 16, 2018)
- léonie: Some Notes on iCloud Photo Library on a Mac (October 24,2018)
- gail from maine: iCloud Deconstructed - Apple Community
- Storing the Library on external volumes:
Scripting Photos
- Batch Changing: Scripting Date and Time
- léonie: Script: Batch Change the Date and Time to a Fixed Date (December 16, 2018)
- léonie: Script: Lift and Stamp all Metadata from one Photo to All Other Selected Photos (Dec 14, 2018)
- Steven Weyhrich's Script: ApplesScript to batch change date of scanned photos based on filename - reformatted (May 29, 2020)
- PhillipU: Script to automate setting dates in Photo from the Filename - Apple Community
- Batch Changing: Scripting the Title
- Old Toad and léonie: Script: Batch clear the Title of selected items - Apple Community (June 12, 2023)
- léonie: Script: Batch Change the Title of selected Photos to the Description/Caption - Apple Community (January 3, 2021)
- léonie: Script: Batch Changing the Title to the Capture Date 2018, old version: Script: Batch Changing the Title to the Capture Date (December 23, 2018)
- Old Toad: Batch Change Title to Capture Date-Description-Padded Sequential Numbers
- léonie: Batch Change Title to Capture Date-Location-Description-Padded Sequential Number (July 7, 2020)
- Old Toad: Batch Change Title to Text w/Padded Sequential Numbers
- léonie: Script: Batch Changing the Titles to the Filenames with Extension (Dec 19,2018) (old version: Script: Batch Changing the Titles to the … - Apple Community)
- léonie: Script: Batch Change the Title of a Photo to the Filename Followed by the Existing Title (May 25,2020)
- Ken: Script: Changing the Title to the Filename without Extension
- léonie: Script: Batch Change the Titles to a Given String
- Old Toad: Append Keywords to Title Field - Léonie's Script
- Batch Changing: Scripting the Description/Caption
- léonie: Script: Batch Change the Description to the Title plus the Current Description (Caption) (July 7, 2020)
- léonie: Script: Batch Change the Descriptions - Apple Community
- léonie: Automator Service: Photos: Batch Append Text to the Description of Photos
- léonie: Script: Batch Append Text to the Description of Photos
- Niko Silver and Michele Percich: Script for setting the date from the filename: Script requested for changing dates - Apple Community
- Scripting GPS Locations:
- léonie: Script: Assign the Same GPS Coordinates to Several Selected Items in Photos (Nov 23, 2020)
- léonie: Script: Assign GPS Coordinates to an Item in Photos (Nov 23, 2020)
- severinsen: Severinsen's Script: Interpolate Location Between Photos Using an Apple Script
- léonie: Script: Extract the Numerical GPS Values using an Apple Script 2018 (Dec 14, 2018, old version: Script: Extract the Numerical GPS Values … - Apple Community)
- léonie: Script: Copy GPS tags from one Photo to Other Photos (Dec, 14 2018, old version: Script: Copy GPS tags from one Photo to O… - Apple Community)
- Aardvark_Phlegm: Script: Interpolate GPS locations between… - Apple Community
- léonie: Major circles of Latitude: Searching for … - Apple Community
- léonie: Script: Split a set of selected photos by the Altitude Exif Tag into two albums - Apple Community
- xsedna: sedna's script to set the GPS coordinates to the originals as well (when I enter a location for a picture, Ph… - Apple Community): PhotosSetCoordinates
- Scripting EXIF tags with Finder Quick Actions in MacOS 10.14 Mojave or newer:
- léonie: Quick Action: How to add the HDR Media Type Badge to Photos with ExifTool on Catalina (May 14, 2020)
- léonie: Quick Action: How to change the dpi tags with exiftool, 2019 version (March 1, 2019)
- léonie: Modifying EXIF tags of Originals Using exiftool: camera, lens, gps
- VikingOSX's Script: Scripting exiftags of image files by calling Swift Hander from an AppleScript… - Apple Community (January 14, 2023)
- Writing Metadata to a file:
- léonie: Apple Script: How to write Photos Metadata to a text file - Apple Community (September 21, 2020)
- Scripts for Searching:
- léonie: Script: How to Find Photos Without any Keywords (January 29, 2019, old version: Script: How to find photos without any keywords)
- léonie: Script: Sort Panoramic-Landscape-Portrait-Square Photos 2019 Version (February 17, 2019, old, deprecated version: Script: Sort Panoramic-Landscape-Portrait-Square Photos)
- léonie: Script: Sort Landscape-Portrait-Square Photos 2019 version (February 17, 2019, old, deprecated version: Script: Sort Landscape-Portrait-Square Photos)
- léonie: Script: Search for Photos by the Dimensions in Pixel Size, 2019 version (May 14, 2019) Old version: Script: Search for Photos by the Dimensions in Pixel Size
- léonie: Script: How to find videos and photos by file size 2019 version (January 19, 2019) (old, broken version: Script: How to find videos and photos in your Photos Library by size)
- léonie: Script: Find all items in Photos for a given day and month (February 16, 2021) - do no longer use this older version, the formatting has been broken old, broken version: Script: How to search for photos from yearly recurring events
- Léonie: Script: Find all Photos Taken at a Certain Hour (February 21, 2021)
- léonie: Script: On this Day - Find all Photos (June 7, 2020)
- Scripting Albums:
- léonie: Script: Find Photos not in Any Album, for Photos 5 on Catalina (May 28,2020)
- léonie: Photos 5.0 on Catalina: How to get a list of all albums - Apple Community (April 4,2020)
- léonie: How to find out the albums a photo is in: Jacques Rioux's Script, Catalina Version for Photos 5 - Apple Community (April 4,2020)
- léonie: How to find out the albums a photo is in: Jacques Rioux's Script, Mojave version 2019, January 21, 2019 (old, broken version: How to find out the albums a photo is in: Jacque Rioux's Script)
- Old Toad: Export Albums to Folders - Jacques Rioux's Script
- Old Toad: Import Folders of Image Files into Library as Albums
- léonie: Script: Search for albums with a certain phrase in the name and combine them into a new calbum
- 4711c: How to add Album name to keywords
- léonie: Photos for Mac: An example for an Apple Script to Search for Keywords and Add Keywords to Selected Photos (August 12, 2020)
- léonie: A variation of the script above: Script: Add the Album Name as a keyword t… - Apple Community (March 10.2019)
- GregBZH35's Script: Create Standard Albums from Smart Albums to Sync with iCloud to iOS Devices (February 16, 2019)
- Scripting Slideshows:
- léonie: Script: A Slideshow With Titles and Locations And Dates in Photos (February 11, 2020). (old Version Script: A Slideshow With Titles and Locations and Dates in Photos)
- léonie: Script: Shuffle Photos for an Instant Slideshow 2018 (December 29, 2018)
- léonie: Script: A Randomly Shuffled Slideshow in Photos with Titles as Notifications (August 23, 2019)
- léonie: How to turn an Album into a Slideshow and preserve the Sorting, 2019 Version (April 12, 2019)
- Videos:
- Matti Haveri: Movie dates and Photos.app
- léonie: If Photos cannot play a video - Apple Community (March 17,2023)
- Compiled versions of the scripts are here: http://www.oldtoad.net/TT/No.P01.html
Importing and exporting, Printing.
- Importing:
- léonie: Automator Service for an Auto Import Folder
- thunderzzz: How to Change Screenshot Save Location
- léonie: Photos for Mac: Importing Raw and JPEG pairs, Catalina Version (April 26, 2020)
- léonie: Photos for Mac: Separating raw+jpeg files
- léonie: How Photos Handles Time Zones when Importing
- Exporting, DVDs
- Karsten Schlüter: How to create a video-DVD? (Macs without iDVD)
- Klaus1: Why is there no iDVD on my new Mac?
- Printing:
- léonie: How to Print Multiple Copies of the Same Photo on One Sheet of Paper, December 15, 2018
Faces and Places:
- Faces:
- léonie: How to create a custom People album that can be sorted - Apple Community (May 7, 2022)
- léonie: How to Reset the Named People Album in Photos
- léonie: How to use Keywords to Back Up the Named Faces in Photos and Improve the Search for People … - Apple Community (January10, 2020)
- léonie: If the Add Faces Button seems to be unresponsive - Apple Community (September 21, 2020)
- léonie: Photos for Mac: Why is it only showing the first names for some people
- léonie: Searching for all unnamed people in Photos 3.0 and 4.0 (December 15, 2018)
- léonie: How to find all Unnamed Face in Photos 5 Catalina (November 7, 2019)
- léonie: Photos 5 to Photos 5.3: A work-Around for the changed Smart Album Rule - Person is not ... (January 9, 2020)
- léonie: How to Correct Merged People Albums - Apple Community (December 28, 2019)
- Places and Maps:
- léonie: How to open the location where a photo has been taken in Maps - iOS version… - Apple Community (April 12, 2024)
- léonie: Photos for Mac: How to view the Locations of Photos as Pins in the Maps.app (December 14, 2018)
- léonie: How to copy a GPS location from one Photo to other Photos using the Maps.app (December 14, 2018)
Editing, Extensions, External Editors:
- Editors, extensions:
- Old Toad: External Editors in Photos Are Here
- léonie: Photos Project Extensions Are Here
- léonie: Photo Editing Extensions for Photos for Mac
- léonie: How to search for third party application that offer extensions for Photos 2019 Version (February 27, 2019)
- léonie: How to Use the Google Nik Collection With… - Apple Community
- léonie: How to check your External Editors for 64-compatibility … (February 3, 2019)
- Effects:
Print projects
- Photos 4.0 or newer:
- Photos 3.0 or older:
Trouble Shooting
- Photos Problems:
- léonie: Bug: Exporting Images with "Filename: Use Title" can export invisible files
- LarryHN: Photos Bug causing multiple photos to have their description changed when you change one
- léonie: Bug: Locations not showing in the Year View (Photos 1 to Photos 4) (November 3, 2019)
- léonie: How to Fix the Error: iCloud Photos is only available on macOS Standard, macOS Extended and APFS formatted volumes (June 7,2020)
- léonie: If Photos keeps crashing or Hanging - Trouble Shooting (June 7, 2020)
- How to trouble shoot "Photos keeps crashing or hanging on a Mac with fusion drive Community
- What to do, if a Live Photo is Silenced and the Sound is missing - Apple Community (April 27, 2024)
- Mobile Devices:
- léonie: Photos iOS 17: If the time displayed for a photo is different from the time we adjusted (May 2, 2024)
- léonie: If you cannot download some media files from the iPhone into Photos for Mac - Apple Community (July 7, 2020)
- léonie: Things to Consider before using Optimise Storage on the iPhone or iPad for Photos (October 10, 2020)
- léonie: Implications of shooting HEIF on the iPhone or iPad and How to Control the Format - Apple Community (August 15,2020)
- léonie: How to back up an iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch be able to Recover Accidentally, Permanently Deleted Photos - Apple Community (July 31,2020)
- MrHoffman: How to Unlock an iPad or iPhone? - Apple Community
- Dogcow-Moof: iPhone Photography and Depth of Field iPhone Photography and Depth of Field - Apple Community
- léonie: How to change the key photo on the Places album on iOS17 or later… (April 12, 2024)
- Videos:
- AJL: If Videos wan't play: Import video to Aperture library on Mount… - Apple Community
- System wide issues:
- Tesserax: Mac Basic Startup Troubleshooting Steps - Apple Community
- Kappy: A Troubleshooting Procedure that may Fix Problems with El Capitan Or Later
- a brody: iTunes/Mac OS/iOS compatibility - Apple Community
- a brody: System cache cleaning - when is it safe, and when not? - Apple Community
- Urquhart1244: How to test an issue in another user account… - Apple Community
- MrHoffman: Scam Pop-ups, Scam Viruses, Scam Receipts… - Apple Community
- Other User Tips:
- Photos for iOS devices:
How Tos
- léonie: How Photos Handles Time Zones when Importing Photos
- léonie:How to get a list of the known categories for P... | Communities
- How to Simulate Star Rating in Photos 5 on Catalina - Apple Community (May 21, 2020)
- léonie: How to Simulate Star Ratings in Photos 1 to 4
- léonie: How to create an "All Photos" Album sorted by the Capture Date in Photos on the Mac
- léonie: How to Rebuild Thumbnails in a Photos Library
- léonie: How to Reset the Named People Album in Photos on High Sierra and iOS 11
- léonie: How to Extract Still Frames from a Live Photo in Photos for Mac
- léonie: Photos: How to Move a Master-Version Pair between Photos Libraries
- léonie: How to Access the Info Panel While Working on a Book
- léonie: How to create an album from the photos used in a slideshow
- léonie: Dealing with the Inconsistency of Keywords Case Sensitivity in Photos for Mac
- léonie: Deleting RAW files from RAW&JPEG pairs in Photos for Mac
B. Useful user Guides and Knowledge Base articles:
- User Guides and Support:
- Photos 5.0 User Guide for Mac - Apple Support
- Photos 4.0 User Guide for Mac - Apple Support
- Photos 3.0 User Guide on the wayback machine: (Apple's Photos 3.0 guide link is now pointing to Photos 4.0) https://web.archive.org/web/20180910110840/https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide /photos/welcome/mac
- Photos 2.0 Help: https://help.apple.com/photos/mac/1.2/?lang=en#/
- Photos 1.0 Help: https://help.apple.com/photos/mac/1.0/?lang=en#/
- Support Page for Photos: Photos - Official Apple Support
- Trouble Shooting: Get help with the Photos app on your Mac - Apple Support
- Raw Support:
- Photos 8.0 Raw Support (macOS Ventura, iOS 16, iPadOS 16)Digital camera RAW formats supported by iOS 16, iPadOS 16, and macOS Ventura - Apple Support
- Photos 7.0 Raw Support (macOS Monterey, iOS 15, iPadOS 15)Digital camera RAW formats supported by iOS 15, iPadOS 15, and macOS Monterey - Apple Support
- Photos 6.0 Raw Support (macOS Big Sur, iOS 14, iPadOS 14): Digital camera RAW formats supported by iOS 14, iPadOS 14, and macOS Big Sur - Apple Support
- Photos 5.0 Raw Support (macOS Catalina, iOS 13, iPadOS 13): Digital camera RAW formats supported by iOS 13, iPadOS 13, and macOS Catalina - Apple Support
- Photos 4.0 Raw Support (Mojave, iOS 12): Digital camera RAW formats supported by iOS 12 and macOS Mojave - Apple Support
- Photos 3.0 Raw Support (High Sierra, iOS 11): Digital camera RAW formats supported by iOS 11 and macOS High Sierra - Apple Support
- Photos 2.0 RAW Support (Sierra, iOS 10): Digital camera RAW formats supported by iOS 10 and macOS Sierra - Apple Support
- Photos 1.1 Raw Support (El Capitan): Digital camera RAW formats supported by OS X El Capitan - Apple Support
- Get help with the Photos app on your Mac - Apple Support
- iCloud Photos (www.icloud.com): https://help.apple.com/icloud/?lang=en-us#/mm8b32f3ae27
- iCloud Help: https://help.apple.com/icloud/#mmd0558ce3
- MacOS X User Guide: Welcome to macOS - Apple Support
- System Information: Welcome to System Information on Mac - Apple Support
- Video Tutorials:
- Full List of Playlists: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYFQ33UIPERYx8-ZHucZbDA/playlists
- Photos for Mac Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIl2EzNYri0fcECWGwTIlzZfrAm4hadvc
- MacOS X Playlists: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIl2EzNYri0ft32loZqEkeI9A6kqVmGqW
- Knowledge Base Articles
- iCloud Photo Library:
- If your iCloud Photos aren't syncing to your device - Apple Support
- If you can't connect or sign in to iCloud - Apple Support
- iCloud: Use iCloud Photo Library on your Windows computer
- Check the status of your library in Photos for macOS - Apple Support
- Wayback machine version: Use Photos and iCloud Photo Library on multiple Mac computers - Apple Support (User Tip: Use Photos and iCloud Photos on multiple … - Apple Community)
- Wayback Machine: How Photos handles content and metadata from iPhoto and Aperture https://web.archive.org/web/20190515155043/https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204478
- Keep your photos safely stored and up to date on all of your devices - Apple Support
- Get help with iCloud Photos - Apple Support
- Get help with your iCloud Photo Library - Apple Support
- iCloud Photo Library FAQ- Apple Support
- iCloud storage plans and pricing - Apple Support
- Archive or make copies of the information you store in iCloud - Apple Support
- What's the difference between device storage and iCloud storage?
- Photo Library:
- Updating from iPhoto to Photos for macOS (archive copy) (broken link: Updating from iPhoto to Photos for macOS - Apple Support)
- Migrate your Aperture libraries to Photos or Adobe Lightroom Classic - Apple Support
- Find your pictures or albums after you migrate a library to Photos - Apple Support
- How Photos displays Smart Albums from iPhoto or Aperture https://web.archive.org/web/20160702021201/https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204487
- Control access to your photos on Mac https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/control-access-to-your-photos-on-mac-mchl244f2895/mac
- Restore a library from Time Machine in Photos on Mac - Apple Support
- Back up the library in Photos on Mac - Apple Support
- Combine libraries in Photos - Apple Support
- Get help with the Photos app on your Mac - Apple Support
- If Photos can't create, upgrade, or open your library because of file system issues - Apple Support.
- If Photos can’t copy or create a library - Apple Support
- How to use the Photos library repair tool - Apple Support
- Sharing photo libraries among multiple users - Apple Support (Archived 2016-09-24)
- (Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20190212080805/https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204476) (no longer available: Photos saves disk space by sharing images with your iPhoto or Aperture libraries - Apple Support)
- Using third-party apps to remove duplicate photos might damage your Photos for macOS library - Apple Support
- Get help with missing photos - Apple Support
- Using the iPhoto Library Upgrader tool - Apple Support
- RAW Support
- How the Photos app and iCloud Photos handle RAW images - Apple Support
- Digital camera RAW formats supported by iOS 13, iPadOS 13, and macOS Catalina - Apple Support
- Digital camera RAW formats supported by iOS 12 and macOS Mojave - Apple Support
- Digital camera RAW formats supported by iOS 11 and macOS High Sierra - Apple Support
- Digital camera RAW formats supported by iOS 10 and macOS Sierra - Apple Support
- Digital camera RAW formats supported by OS X El Capitan - Apple Support
- Digital camera RAW formats supported by OS X Yosemite - Apple Support
- Aperture 3 - RAW Formats - Technical Specifications
- Sharing and Formats
- Videos
- https://web.archive.org/web/20240123090939/https://support.apple.com/en-us/102232 deprecated link: About legacy media in iMovie for macOS - Apple Support
- If you can't play videos in Photos on your Mac - Apple Support
- Play HDR video on Mac: Play HDR video on Mac – Apple Support (UK)
- QuickTime Player converts legacy media files before playing them - Apple Support
- About Apple ProRes - Apple Support
- External Drives:
- Move your Photos library to save space on your Mac - Apple Support
- Checking the format of a drive: How to choose between APFS and Mac OS Extended when formatting a disk for Mac - Apple Support
- Reformatting a drive: Erase a volume using Disk Utility on Mac - Apple Support
- Print Products:
- Use Project Extensions to order print products in Photos after September 30, 2018
- Create and order print products in Photos with Project Extensions Create and order print products in Photos with Project Extensions - Apple Support
- Photos 3.0 Version of Check and review a project before you order using Photos on Mac - Apple Support
- Archived version of HT201504 "Preview a print project in Photos or iPhoto to avoid issues": https://web.archive.org/web/20170614002828/https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201504
- Archived version of HT201882 "Details about books, cards, and calendars ordered in Photos for OSX and iPhoto): https://web.archive.org/web/20170614002846/https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201882
- Turn off the auto-fill option in Photos projects - Apple Support
- System Services:
- Spotlight: Search with Spotlight on Mac - Apple Support
- Time Machine: Back up your files with Time Machine on Mac - Apple Support
- Windows->Mac Terminology: What’s it called on my Mac? - Apple Support
- System Problems:
- Revert your Mac to a previous macOS version - Apple Support
- 32-bit app compatibility with macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 and later - Apple Support
- Resolve issues caused by changing the permissions of items in your home folder (wayback Machine); dead link: Resolve issues caused by changing the permissions of items in your home folder - Apple Support
- How to rebuild the Spotlight index on your Mac - Apple Support
- Get help with video issues on external displays connected to your Mac - Apple Support
- About macOS Recovery - Apple Support
- Use safe mode to isolate issues with your Mac - Apple Support
- https://web.archive.org/web/20200401214326/https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204443 (broken link: Isolating an issue by using another user account)
- Graphics performance limited in macOS Recovery, safe mode, or Guest User mode
- How to test an issue in another user account on your Mac - Apple Support (August 14,2020)
- macOS Sierra: Set up users, guests, and groups on your Mac
- What is 'Other' and 'Purgeable' in About This Mac? - Apple Support
- How to free up storage space on your Mac - Apple Support
- See used and available storage space on your Mac https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/system-information/syspf9b375b9/11.0/mac/11.0
- If you can’t move or copy a file or folder on Mac - Apple Support
- Resolve issues caused by changing the permissions of items in your home folder - Apple Support (archived version)
- See how apps affect Mac performance, battery runtime, temperature, and fan activity - Apple Support
- About legacy system extensions – Apple Support
- About incompatible media in iMovie for macOS - Apple Support
- Detailed and Effective Bug Reporting - Apple Community
- Feedback - Photos - Apple
- Resetting the Mac when it is misbehaving
- Importing from an iOS device:
- Use iCloud Photos on iPad iPadOS13- Apple Support
- Use iCloud Photos on iPhone iOS13 - Apple Support
- Transfer photos and videos from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support
- Photos says unlock iPhone when trying import in Photos and then No Photos show
- If iTunes doesn't recognize your iPhone, iPad, or iPod - Apple Support
- iTunes/Mac OS/iOS compatibility | Communities
- If you can't import photos from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to your computer - Apple Support
- Resolve issues between iTunes and third-party security software - Apple Support
- Use Continuity Camera on your Mac - Apple Support
- Scan images in Image Capture on Mac - Apple Support
- Clear Other storage on your iPhone or iPad - Apple Support
- If your iPhone is stuck on the Apple logo
- iOS update and restore errors
- If your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch won't turn on or is frozen
- If you see error 9, 4005, 4013, or 4014 when you restore your iOS device - Apple Support
- Syncing with iTunes:
- Sync your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with iTunes on your computer using USB - Apple Support
- Sync your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with iTunes using Wi-Fi - Apple Support
- iTunes: Unable to sync photos - Apple Support
- Ports and Services: About macOS, iOS, and iTunes server host connections and iTunes background processes - Apple Support
- About the iPod Photo Cache folder - Apple Support
- About the 'Trust This Computer' alert on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support
- My Photo Stream and Shared Albums
- My Photo Stream - Apple Support
- Get help with My Photo Stream - Apple Support
- My Photo Stream and Shared Albums limits - Apple Support
- How to share albums in Photos on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac How to share albums in Photos on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac - Apple Support
- Use Shared Albums in Photos - Apple Support
- If Shared Albums aren't working - Apple Support
- Security Issues and AppleID:
- Personal Safety User Guide for Apple devices
- Avoid phishing emails, fake 'virus' alerts, phony support calls, and other scams - Apple Support
- If your Apple ID is locked or disabled - Apple Support
- Find My iPhone Activation Lock - Apple Support
- Activation Lock for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch - Apple Support
- Set up Family Sharing – Apple Support
- What to do before you sell, give away, or trade in your Mac - Apple Support
- Report a lost or stolen Apple product - Apple Support
- Checklist: If you want to see if anyone else has access to your device or accounts
- Checklist: If you want to stop sharing with someone whom you previously shared with
- If you want to make sure no one else can see your location
- If you think your Apple ID has been compromised - Apple Support
- Subscriptions and Billing: Subscriptions and Billing - Official Apple Support
- FullScreen Mode, Function Keys, Touch Bar:
- Desktop Wallpaper:
- iCloud Photo Library:
- User Tips in the German Communities:
- Aperture user Tips:
- Old Toad's Tutorials: www.oldtoad.net/TT/No.P01.html
The previous version of this user Tip with the old links is here: Thematic Index to Photos for Mac Related … - Apple Community
