Comparison of Photos V8.0 vs PowerPhotos re Merging Libraries
I ran a number of tests with a 50 photo library with albums, smart albums, folders, keywords, captions, keywords and locations. I merged it into an empty library using Photos and PowerPhotos. This is what I found was imported by each;
PowerPhotos: Photos:
Albums -----------
Smart Albums (as regular albums) -----------
Folders -----------
Captions Captions
Titles Titles
Original images Original images
Edited images Edited images
Locations Locations
Favorites Favorites
Can detect and exclude Duplicates detected after import
duplicates (or not) during import
Neither method included projects.
Both methods could import older iPhoto libraries into a Photos library when the iPhoto library couldn't be migrated into a Photos library.