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Added new albums, but photos library date has not changed

Been tidying up photos, new albums, updating faces etc. Using Photos on a mac running Catalina 10.15.5


Just thought would be a good time to make an external backup, (Time machine running every day)

And I noticed that the photo library that I dragged into the external disk, had a date on it around the time I migrated to Catalina..... ? ? ?

Seems very odd, as I have being playing with photos for a few days now.

Is the library upto date and reflects all the new info (albums etc) I have spent time tweaking.


Is this sometime to be worried about.

iMac 27″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Jun 21, 2020 12:31 PM

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Posted on Jun 21, 2020 12:55 PM

The date modified of the Photos Library is not regularly updated since Catalina.

The Photos Library is actually a folder, bundled as a package. When Photos modifies the internal files in this package, the modification date of the enclosing folder is currently not always updated. Even the size is not always updated instantly.

But the library seems to be working as expected.


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Jun 21, 2020 12:55 PM in response to goslings

The date modified of the Photos Library is not regularly updated since Catalina.

The Photos Library is actually a folder, bundled as a package. When Photos modifies the internal files in this package, the modification date of the enclosing folder is currently not always updated. Even the size is not always updated instantly.

But the library seems to be working as expected.


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Jun 21, 2020 4:24 PM in response to léonie

Even after I have copied the library to an external drive it still says modified 28 Dec 2019, which is when I migrated up to Catalina

Something of an oversight, but as you say appears to be working ok. Just hope what I have copied is up to date as there is no way of telling as cannot see the contents

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Jun 21, 2020 4:30 PM in response to goslings

as there is no way of telling as cannot see the contents


Of course you can. You just dragged and dropped it to the external? Then just one it: Hold down the option (or alt) key and launch Photos: From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library'

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Added new albums, but photos library date has not changed

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