Unable to download all of the Photos in iCloud Photos into my older iMac PHOTOS App.
My ICloud PHOTOS App shows 190,000 +\- Items. My iMac 27 PHOTOS App shows about 130,000 +\- Items. A couple months ago I had all 190,000 Items in my iMac PHOTOS App. I am running High Sierra, the best it will do.
On my iPhone 12 Pro Max I see all 191,161 Items.
I am running “Repairing Library” on my current iMac/PHOTOS App Library.
My wife and I have separate Apple Accounts but a couple months ago I thought I created a large PHOTOS/Album with about 50,000-60,000 Photos in it of older Photos she didn’t have. BUT…I may have possibly created a Library instead of an Album.
But when I open her PHOTOS App on her iPhone 11 she has 50,000 or so Photos that used to be on my iMac. If I try to open one of my photos on her iPhone/PHOTOS App Ft the photo has a small circle on the bottom right if the photo and it won’t open so that it can be edited. It is locked.
I don’t see a Library on my iMac that has just the 50,000 Items in it that used to be on my iMac.
I do have a lot of Shared Albums on my PHOTOS Apps, but i don’t see an Album on either iMac or any PHOTOS App that has just the 50,000 missing Items on it.
if I found the missing Library I could use my “PowerPhotos” App to rejoin the Libraries.
In my iCloud and in my iPhone 12 PHOTOS App I have a selection to view “Both”, “Personal” or “Shared” Libraries. In iCloud it is set to “Both”. But I don’t believe my iMac PHOTOS App is downloading “Both” Libraries. I do not want to tamper with iCloud.
i can’t find a way to view iMac/PHOTOS App Library’s separately on my older iMac.
I just checked my iPhone 12/PHOTOS App “Personal” Items and there are 44,366 Items. My “Shared” Library has 146,795 Items. “Both” Libraries equal 191,161 Items.
I also have an ancient iPad Air that shows the PHOTOS App with just 109,360 Items. In the “Settings”/PHOTOS iCloud is ON and set to “Optimize iPad Storage”. In Settings/General/iPad Storage I have 63GB of 128GB available and PHOTOS is currently using 32 GB (All Optimized).
THAT’S ALL FOLKS!
Any assistance would really be appreciated.
Andy
iMac 27″, macOS 10.13
