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Q: Photos / iPhoto

Hi, just got a couple of questions about the new Photos app:

 

I have a couple of photos that are attachments in my Inbox. How do I get them to move to Photos, I've done the obvious, ie "export to photos" and "share to photos"  and dragging but nothing seems to happen.

 

Second question is, why on earth do I need Photos and iPhoto. Which should I use, I was quite happy using iPhoto and if I can't move photos from email attachments to Photos then I may as well carry on with the old iPhoto.  Please can someone enlighten me as to why I have both and is this taking up twice as much memory on my Mac Book or are the photos just saved once?

 

Thanks guys

Michelle

MacBook Pro (13-inch Late 2011), iOS 5.1.1

Posted on May 15, 2015 12:36 AM

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  • by Cunnla,Helpful

    Cunnla Cunnla May 15, 2015 6:51 PM in response to michelle.clarke.100
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    May 15, 2015 6:51 PM in response to michelle.clarke.100

    Hi,

    In answer to your first question, there seems to be no easy way to move Mail attachments to Photos -- maybe it's a bug in Yosemite 10.10.3. However, if you click on the paperclip in the Mail message, you get the option to Save or Export to iPhoto. If you Save to a desktop folder you can then drag the attachment to Photos. Also, in Mail > File, there is the option to Save Attachments.

    If you choose Export to iPhoto, that will happen if you have iPhoto enabled. Or a window may pop up asking you to choose a photo library. Maybe if you choose the Photos Library that will work.

    As to the second question(s), you can choose to continue using iPhoto, but it will no longer be supported by Apple, so sometime in the future you could have problems.  Photos is part of OS X and cannot be deleted, so you would just ignore it. Photos has a lot of good features so it is worth giving it a try.

    You can switch between Photos and iPhoto by changing the designated library. Designate a System Photo Library in Photos - Apple Support

    The libraries do seem to be cumulative and take up disk space. I would recommend putting the ones you're not using on an external disk. http://osxdaily.com/2011/09/05/move-the-iphoto-library/

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    Cunnla Cunnla May 20, 2015 6:09 AM in response to michelle.clarke.100
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    May 20, 2015 6:09 AM in response to michelle.clarke.100

    Hi again,

    Just to straighten out the info I gave you about the photo libraries taking up disk space, which was wrong.

    Check out the article below, it's full of useful stuff, including a great gadget for upgrading old iPhoto libraries.

    Get started with Photos for OS X - Apple Support

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    michelle.clarke.100 michelle.clarke.100 May 20, 2015 10:35 PM in response to Cunnla
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    May 20, 2015 10:35 PM in response to Cunnla

    Thanks so much for your replies. Now trying to battle "Faces". Lots of the work I've done in the past on Face recognition has been undone. gggrrr

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    Cunnla Cunnla May 21, 2015 4:23 AM in response to michelle.clarke.100
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    May 21, 2015 4:23 AM in response to michelle.clarke.100

    Lots of the work I've done in the past on Face recognition has been undone

    What went wrong? All your iPhoto "Faces" data will still be in the original iPhoto library so it's not lost.

    In Photos, in the sidebar, if you click on Faces, the faces you previously listed -- in iPhoto -- should show, and at the bottom, there will be a row of "suggested faces." If you double-click on one of those, add a name in the window that appears and click continue.  A whole bunch of photos will be shown, with a circle around the person's face, so click "Add and continue."

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    michelle.clarke.100 michelle.clarke.100 May 21, 2015 12:44 PM in response to Cunnla
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    May 21, 2015 12:44 PM in response to Cunnla

    Hi again, in iPhoto I painstakingly got rid of any unidentified people. Everyone was accounted for, but now not so. There are hundreds of unidentified people (and hubcaps!!) that have not been picked up via the facial recognition. Also, there's a lot of photos in Photos that I'm quite sure I have previously deleted.

     

    Is there a quick way to sort out my faces?

     

    Kind regards,

    Michelle

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    Cunnla Cunnla May 21, 2015 10:54 PM in response to michelle.clarke.100
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    May 21, 2015 10:54 PM in response to michelle.clarke.100

    there's a lot of photos in Photos that I'm quite sure I have previously deleted.

    When you deleted them in iPhoto, did you empty the iPhoto Trash afterwards? If not they may have got carried over.

    If you go to your iPhoto library in Users/Home folder/Pictures and double-click on it you get the option to open it in iPhoto or Photos. Choose iPhoto and see if your faces are in order there. Then close iPhoto and open Photos while holding down the Option key. Choose the iPhoto library and if all your faces are there you can designate it as your system photo library. Designate a System Photo Library in Photos - Apple Support

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    michelle.clarke.100 michelle.clarke.100 May 22, 2015 1:50 AM in response to Cunnla
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    May 22, 2015 1:50 AM in response to Cunnla

    Hi, yes I constantly empty my deleted photos from the trash. There's photos on Photos that's been completely deleted for quite a long time. Spooky.

     

    I'll give your other suggestion a try.

     

    Kind regards

    Michelle