Q: Upload multiple libraries
Before Photos came out, I decided to split my large and slow aperture library. It was over 280GB and although should be within apertures capabilities, for me it was slow and cumbersome. I also decided to cull a large amount of the pics and vids and thought breaking the mammoth task up into yearly libraries (and months within that) Was the best idea. I exported each year into its own library. So I've been "thinning" these yearly ibraries down to about half of what I shot.
Now to import the pictures and videos into the new Photos Library.
Importing to Photos
My first attempt didn't work the way I wanted. I exported the first month (originals) into a folder and imported that into Photos. The problem with this method was that the videos were time stamped with the export time. So the videos appeared in the wrong time location within Photos (in the "moments" & "collections" tab). As an aside the photos appear chronologically incorrectly within the Albums/All Photos tab.
So the workaround I've come up with (yet to be tried) is to
Select the pictures within the year aperture library.
Export those pics/vids as a new Aperture Library.
concert that to a Photos library.
Select that new library as the "system library" for iCloud.
Allow the new library to upload to the cloud, and once this is complete, delete the new library and return to the original library.
Reselect the original library as the system library, which should then download the new photos/videos.
Is this a practical workaround?
Is there a quicker one?
The main reason for this is because of the video time stamping during an export process and the fact I want to thin the number of pics uploaded.
I'm interested in hearing opinions and ideas.
iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)
Posted on May 22, 2015 11:40 PM