Q: Moving photos between libraries on different computers
Hi, the main reason I upgraded to Aperture from iPhoto is because I have a MacBook that I use when I travel, and a Mac Pro at home. I keep my photo library on said Mac Pro. When I'm traveling I will import all of my photos from SD card onto the MacBook, do a bunch of edits there, and then export the project as a new library, which I then import on Aperture on the Mac Pro. This way I can continue to refine the non-destructive edits before exporting the final album to the web.
However, it looks like Photos doesn't have this capability, or if it does, it's not advertised very well. Obviously Apple wants me to switch to using iCloud Photo Library, but that gets really expensive with the amount of photos I have (300GB+ at this point).
But, Aperture has been end-of-lifed, and it's also stopped working reliably (for example, it won't even see my SD card or iPhone when I plug them in), so I'm worried that I pretty much have to switch to Photos sooner rather than later.
Thus, my obvious question: is there a way to do something similar with Photos that I was doing on Aperture? Any way to merge all or part of one system's library to another system's library?
Mac Pro (Late 2013), OS X Yosemite (10.10.3), PreSonus FireStudio Project
Posted on May 23, 2015 12:58 AM