Sonoma can't find photo albums - MacBook Pro

It has been like this since two system versions, so it looks like it is here to stay.

The Media browser (accessed via the paper clip) does no longer show the albums. We have to use the search instead of the albums to find the photos.

But in Mail you can use the Photo Browser, when you want to attach a photo. Just click the icon with the two stacked photos instead of the paper clip in the toolbar of a New Mail window to access it. The Photo Browser is showing you all the albums:

For example: To open Mail's own the Photo Browser in Apple Mail: (sorry, my screenshots are in German because it is just not convenient for me to change the system language to English)

To see the albums in Apple Mail#s Photo browser click Photos, then the disclosure triangle for Albums:

In Pages and Keynote we can use the same Photo Browser and do not have to use the limited Media Browser to select photos from our library.

Are you using Mac Mail or some other email program? Mac Mail works-- I can choose the album from a list, but many 3rd party apps seem not to have caught up with changes, which are supposed to be improvements. It's frustrating for lots of people.

I just tried it in Ventura, and it's worse than I remembered. The reason that I don't remember is that I don't use the "Photos Browser" to access pictures in email. Rather, I have Photos open, and I ⌘-c copy the picture in Photos and ⌘-v paste the picture into the email. In Mac Mail, you are given a choice of how large you want the attached picture to be. Oddly, in Message, copy and paste doesn't work, but dragging the picture in does. Go figure...

Try that out and see if it may be a reasonable way to attach pictures for you.

Seems none of the options are perfect.

When I want to send some photos with Mail, I select the photos in Photos and use the Share menu in Photos to open a new Mail with the selected photos attached. This way I can use Photos to find the photos and attach them to a new mail.

What seems awkward in the Photos Browser is that Search doesn't seem to work. I typed Bird into keyword search and I get nothing, even though Bird is a keyword that I've used a lot. I just tried it again and I got birds, but not with the keyword, so it works for category but not keyword. It also finds people, but not by keyword. It won't do ★★★★☆ or other keywords at all. On the other hand, Attach (the paper clip) works with keywords.

So it looks like you can use Photos Browser to go through albums, or you can use Attach if you want to look for specific pictures by keyword or filename or title or even caption.

I still just copy and paste....

You're welcome, gottabekarend 😊

Thank you for this workaround!