How to move photo library to a different user account
I have a user account on my iMac that is having major issues. I created a new on and am migrating everything to it before I delete it. Now I need to move the Photo Library to the new user account.
Rather than exporting all 5000-plus photos then importing them to the new user, and loosing all the associated data such as albums, faces, names, and wherever else, I would like to import the entire library and retain all this data, as if I were migrating to a new machine.
How do I do that?
There are two files of the Kind "Photos Library" in my Users/Pictures folder. One is very small (about 240MBytes) and the other is large and is over 16GBytes.
I tried importing the larger file and Photos tells me that it cannot be imported because "...it may be an unrecognizable file format or the file may not contain valid data."
It is possible that this file is a legacy item from when I used iPhoto or it could just be corrupted. When I import the smaller file there are only a handful of photos, not the 5000+ that should be there.
I DO NOT store the photos on the iCloud. Not enough room there. Even if I decided to start now, with the issues there are with this account, it probably would fail.
My Mac is running MacOS 12.6.
iMac Line (2012 and Later)
