Q: transfer photos with files?
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Sep 12, 2016 10:03 AMby Icetime15,My old system, I used Adobe CS4 with Bridge to edit and view the photos, so they have never been in the mac photo library. In Finder there is a Photo main file with all photos there within subfiles. I was hoping to not purchase a secondary software as I no longer need something like Adobe for editing - the basic functions of Photos in my macbook will do fine if I can get the photos to move there with the files.
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Sep 12, 2016 10:19 AMby léonie,Are you saying you want Photos for Mac to show the folder structure you are currently having in the Pictures folder on your old Mac?
You can recreate the folders in Photos for Mac as albums.
If you select one folder at a time to import to Photos and then open the Last Import album, you can use the command "File > New album" and create an album for all currently selected photos.
Do that for each of the folders in your Pictures folder.
Alternately have a look at Old Toad's User Tip: Import Folders of Image Files into Library as Albums
It describes an Apple Script by user code!z that will automatically create an album for each imported folder of photos.
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Sep 12, 2016 11:18 AMby Icetime15,This sounds like a solution I can work with - as long as the "albums" can have albums inside them. Example, my current filing system has the year as the main file then each "event" as a subfile inside (school photos, Christmas, vacation, football season, etc). Does the Photos program work like this?
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Sep 12, 2016 11:25 AMby léonie,Does the Photos program work like this?
Yes. Only you have albums cannot have albums inside, but you can create folders with albums inside, and the folders can be nested.
This will work best, if you are viewing the folders ans albums in the sidebar of the Photos Library.
For example, my albums with travel photos look like this in Photos's sidebar . many nested folders with albums and smart albums inside:
