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i have updates for pictures to post on Airbnb. When I click on upload, it takes me to pictures and I have to look through all my picture library for the past 2 years. Is there a way to get to my photos albums?
kitty
MacBook Pro (2020 and later)
Photos will open the last library opened. So if you manually change the library to be opened it will be the default library the next time the Photos app is launched.
Also the library to be used to upload pictures must be designated the System Photo Library in Photos' General preference pane:
You should be able to see the albums like in this screenshot:
If you're not able to see the albums give this a try:
1 - As a test launch Photos with the Option key held down and create a new, test library. Import some photos and test to see if the same problem persists. Does it? This tells us if the problem is limited to your current library or is more wide spread. Then launch your original library and see if the problem persists.
If it does boot into Safe Mode according to How to use safe mode on your Mac and test to see if the problem persists. Reboot normally and test again.
NOTE: Safe Mode boot can take up to 3 - 5 minutes as it's doing the following;
• Verifies your startup disk and attempts to repair directory issues, if needed
• Loads only required kernel extensions (prevents 3rd party kernel/extensions from loading)
• Prevents Startup Items and Login Items from opening automatically
• Disables user-installed fonts
• Deletes font caches, kernel cache, and other system cache files
Photos will open the last library opened. So if you manually change the library to be opened it will be the default library the next time the Photos app is launched.
Also the library to be used to upload pictures must be designated the System Photo Library in Photos' General preference pane:
You should be able to see the albums like in this screenshot:
If you're not able to see the albums give this a try:
1 - As a test launch Photos with the Option key held down and create a new, test library. Import some photos and test to see if the same problem persists. Does it? This tells us if the problem is limited to your current library or is more wide spread. Then launch your original library and see if the problem persists.
If it does boot into Safe Mode according to How to use safe mode on your Mac and test to see if the problem persists. Reboot normally and test again.
NOTE: Safe Mode boot can take up to 3 - 5 minutes as it's doing the following;
• Verifies your startup disk and attempts to repair directory issues, if needed
• Loads only required kernel extensions (prevents 3rd party kernel/extensions from loading)
• Prevents Startup Items and Login Items from opening automatically
• Disables user-installed fonts
• Deletes font caches, kernel cache, and other system cache files
Hi
You need to be clicking the photos item in the media section of the left hand side bar. It should look like this. If you want to make it easy to find particular pictures, you can put them in an album first. I have an album called "easy find" 🙃
Can you take a screenshot of what you are seeing?
hit cmd-shift-4 and drag a box around what you want to save as a screenshot. It will be saved to your desktop. You can upload it here with the image insert icon...
When I go to upload pictures to Airbnb, I click on photos but it doesn't show the albums. I have almost all my pictures in albums. It is a lot of work to go through the photos or pictures folders. Is there a setting that stops photos from displaying the albums? What settings are needed for my photos library to list the albums for uploading?
If I'm not trying to upload photos, the albums are displayed when I click on photos.
Hi
Are you seeing the same as my screenshot, with photos selected in the sidebar under Media? But just no albums showing? Do you see the grey bar with the dot in the middle of it, above the thumbnails?
Can you drag that down to make space for the albums, and then open the albums with the little right pointing arrow next to "albums" as shown above?
I'm seeing the photos icon under media but no albums even though there is room for them. There's only one list on the left side. Not 2 lists like you're showing. There's a carot next to media and if I click on it, the word photos below it disappears. I have spent hours dragging stuff to the desktop and that doesn't always work to post. I also took screenshots of the photo album which just shows every and anything.
This is so frustrating. I don't remember having this problem before. That's why I think I have messed up a setting.
Kitty
Now when I click on photos it only shows me the albums. Before it showed these files: documents, icloud, pictures, applications, etc which were above the photos icon. The more I work on this, the worse it gets.
Is there a reset for this?
I will try that but right now I have 2 photo libraries. One has just old content and one has the latest photos and some old. How do i merge them? My computer keeps switching the libraries.
Screenshot will help. I can't see what you are seeing, and I can't work out what is going on from what you are writing.
Airbnb posted pictures
