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User profile for user: William Mcclatchey1
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MacOS Ventura Photos app Files => Photos app on MacOS Big Sur

I feel like I am in a software/hardware version dead end. My primary Mac now uses MacOS Ventura. But my Canon Pixma Pro 1 has no Mac drivers past MacOS Big Sur (Windows drivers available for Win 11!). The MacOS photos files on Ventura don't appear to be backward compatible with Photos files on MacOS Big Sur.


I have a Mac Pro 2013 with Big Sur which I use for a number of other purposes, but how can I get images from MacOS Ventura Photos App onto the MacOS Big Sur Photos app so I can print these images on this expensive and magnificent printer?


I am sure I could individually export and import in jpg format, but what a pain.


Any help appreciated....

Mac mini (M1, 2020)

Posted on May 11, 2023 11:24 AM

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Posted on May 11, 2023 9:02 PM

The original jpg images files (jpg) are in the Originals folder inside the Photos Library.


Right click (Control-click) on the Ventura Photos Library file. Look for a large folder, it is usually called Originals (for some Libraries that came from the older iPhoto it might be called Masters). Make a duplicate of that Originals folder and then drag it to your Desktop. Then copy it to your Big Sur Mac. Then just import that entire folder into the Big Sur Photos.


By the way, my experience with my Canon MG8120 Pixma printer, which I purchased in 2011, is that it still prints and scans just fine with Ventura despite the drivers not being updated for several generations of MacOS. The last driver Canon released was for MacOS Sierra (10.12) but it still works fine with Ventura. With both Intel and M1 Macs.

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steve626
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May 11, 2023 9:02 PM in response to William Mcclatchey1

The original jpg images files (jpg) are in the Originals folder inside the Photos Library.


Right click (Control-click) on the Ventura Photos Library file. Look for a large folder, it is usually called Originals (for some Libraries that came from the older iPhoto it might be called Masters). Make a duplicate of that Originals folder and then drag it to your Desktop. Then copy it to your Big Sur Mac. Then just import that entire folder into the Big Sur Photos.


By the way, my experience with my Canon MG8120 Pixma printer, which I purchased in 2011, is that it still prints and scans just fine with Ventura despite the drivers not being updated for several generations of MacOS. The last driver Canon released was for MacOS Sierra (10.12) but it still works fine with Ventura. With both Intel and M1 Macs.

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May 13, 2023 5:46 AM in response to steve626

Thank you for your reply. It is helpful.


Most of my images are Nikon Z7 RAW, and I don't know if the Big Sur Photo App can manage the Nikon Z7 RAW profile. But easily determined.


Your big help was something I feel stupid for not trying...loading the old and unsupported Canon drivers into my Ventura Mac Mini M1 in spite of Canon discouraging, at least indirectly, doing this.


It worked! Now I can print directly from my Mini.


Problem solved!


Thanks....

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MacOS Ventura Photos app Files => Photos app on MacOS Big Sur

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