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rbenen Author

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Photo library heic in Sierra and Big Sur

We just installed Yosemite on a 2012 MacBook Pro so we can run a 32 bit application (Final Cut Pro 7). Our photo library in iCloud contains many photos in heic format that do not work on Yosemite. Since we can't upgrade the os on that computer, is there any way to convert the photos in photo library to jpg?

I know I can export them as jpg and then import them again, but that gives me thousands of duplicate files. Any suggestions, please?

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Jan 28, 2021 2:08 PM

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Old Toad

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Posted on Jan 28, 2021 2:48 PM

rbenen wrote:

I know I can export them as jpg and then import them again, but that gives me thousands of duplicate files. Any suggestions, please?

You won't have duplicates if you export the HEIC photos as JPEGS to a folder and delete them from the library before importing the new jpegs back into the library.

That's the only way to do what you want.

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