Ventura Behavior Changed: Photos Upload Dialog - Can't See Folders and Albums, only the entire Library.

When I attempt to upload photos to Smugmug via its Web interface, I click "browse this computer" and a Finder-ish dialog pops up. Prior to Ventura, when I click on "Photos" under "Media" in the left side pane, it would bring up a new pane that had at the top, the Apple Photos color-wheel icon, with a dropdown that showed my Apple Photos Folder and Album structure. I could navigate to a Photos Folder / Album, select the photos from that album I wanted and they would upload. Now in Ventura, the behavior changed. In Ventura when I click "browse this computer" on the same Smugmug interface, the Finder-ish dialog pop-up still shows "Photos" under "Media", but I do not have the option of navigating through my Apple Photos Folders and Albums. I only see a view equivalent to Library / Photos in Apple Photos. There is a blue folder saying Photos at the top, no color-wheel, and no Folder/Album structure, and no way to navigate to a particular Album in Apple Photos. I want to see the Folder / Album information so I can easily find the photos I have already organized into albums and not have to pick through my entire library. I have tried Safari and Chrome with the same result. How can this functionality be restored in Ventura?

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Posted on Nov 7, 2022 9:56 PM

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Posted on Jan 30, 2023 3:02 PM

I was told by Apple today it's not going to be "fixed", that they have purposely removed it. They had me fill in a request asking to consider reinstating it. For those of us running businesses this is crazy. Saving them to a file or sharing still does not fix as it won't allow to set the order of the photos. I am searching for an app to add.

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