OSX Photos "keep folder organization" on 2nd import issues

I have about 100GB+ worth of photos neatly tagged and organized in folders by year/event etc. Lets say the top level Dir is called "MyPhotosDir". I start with a completely empty Photos app, import MyPhotosDir and check the "keep folder organization" during import and life is good.


Assume a month later, I added some photos to MyPhotosDir. I created some new folders corresponding to the past few months. I also found some photos for older years/months and added them to already existing photos folders. I then reimport "MyPhotosDir" and the new photos DO get added. But in Photos, if I look at the left side, there are now 2 instances of "MyPhotosFolder". The 1st one lists all directories/folders, the 2nd one lists just the ones that changed between the 1st import & 2nd import.


My goal is to keep syncing "MyPhotosFolder" into Photos, keep the folder organization, but only have one instance of "MyPhotosFolder". How do I do this?


I do NOT want to delete everything from Photos and start all over again! That looses all the face detection etc that has already happened.


Please help!

MacBook Pro 15”, macOS 10.15

Posted on May 2, 2020 6:43 PM

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May 3, 2020 2:16 AM in response to goldie288

It is easier to build the albums and folders in Photos instead of in the Finder. And then occasionally export your new photos to your archive of originals outside the Photos.app, if you want to have an additional backup of your originals. I am exporting the new photos occasionally with the export preset "Subfolder format: use Moments" and ". This will give me folders named by the date and the location. One advantage of exporting from Photos would be, that we can include sidecar files with the IPTC metadata and we will save the keywords and locations as well.

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