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Q: Smart Albums in new Photos App (Location)

Hello,

 

I had orginized my entire library by smarts albums using "date" and "location" credentials while creating my new smart albums. The new Photos app has modified ALL my smart albums and now they do not include the "location" credential because it's not an option anymore... Now I have a completely UNORGANISED photo library and I do not know how to fix it...

 

Does anybody has the same issue? And, Does anybody know how to try to organise pictures by its GPS location as I previously had in iPhoto?

 

I do not understand why Apple has deleted this "location" option (and so many others) from the Smart Album credentials, are they coming later or something?

 

Thank you

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)

Posted on Apr 9, 2015 4:22 PM

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  • by Old Toad,Helpful

    Old Toad Old Toad Apr 9, 2015 4:41 PM in response to carjufi
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    Apr 9, 2015 4:41 PM in response to carjufi

    Don't know what Apple is thinking.  None of us do.  However, tell Apple what additional features you want in Photos via both http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html and http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphoto.html  since they don't have a feedback page for Photos as yet.

     

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  • by bewingtex,

    bewingtex bewingtex Apr 9, 2015 11:59 PM in response to carjufi
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    Apr 9, 2015 11:59 PM in response to carjufi

    I really don't understand this bonehead move either.  My library which was neatly organized by city is now a mess and I have to click back 3 layers (by year) to search for a picture by map.  I'm really not impressed by what Apple has been turning out lately...

  • by yagee_de,

    yagee_de yagee_de Apr 10, 2015 12:28 AM in response to carjufi
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    Apr 10, 2015 12:28 AM in response to carjufi

    Same problem here.

    First day like:

    "Oh that looks like on the iPhone!"

    Second day:

    "Low battery?"

    - Attach it to the Mac.

    "Had to change sychronize settings? Why?"

    "Oh where are my smart albums?"

    "Have to recreate it first?"

    "***, there is just a filter for photos that have GPS coordinates?"

     

    Thank god apple does not produce light bulbs. I had to choose then, to light all bulbs that are attached to a switch or none.

  • by DennisA,

    DennisA DennisA Apr 13, 2015 4:08 PM in response to carjufi
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    Apr 13, 2015 4:08 PM in response to carjufi

    My smart album key words got all messed up on conversion.

  • by McRoger,

    McRoger McRoger Apr 26, 2015 9:19 AM in response to carjufi
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    Apr 26, 2015 9:19 AM in response to carjufi

    Same here.

     

    I mostly used smart albums based on dates, events and rating.

     

    For dates: sometimes the range is inverted e.g. 01 April 2010 < selection and selection < 17 April 2010 has become  01 April 2010 > selection  or selection > 17 April 2010.

     

    Events: have changed names

     

    Rating: have been migrated to "keywords"  -> a selection taking all "1 Star and more" is no longer possible in the same selection...

     

    Total regression, nice user experience, with my thousands of pictures and around 30 smart albums lost, I just cannot believe it how bad Apple has managed this !

  • by Old Toad,

    Old Toad Old Toad Apr 26, 2015 9:35 AM in response to McRoger
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    Apr 26, 2015 9:35 AM in response to McRoger
    Rating: have been migrated to "keywords"  -> a selection taking all "1 Star and more" is no longer possible in the same selection...

    It is but not as easy.  Just add Keyword is 1 star, keyword is 2 star, etc.s up to 5 star with Match set to  any of the following conditions.

     

    In the meantime tell and/or keep telling Apple what additional features you want in Photos via https://www.apple.com/feedback/photos.html

  • by McRoger,

    McRoger McRoger Apr 26, 2015 10:19 AM in response to Old Toad
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    Apr 26, 2015 10:19 AM in response to Old Toad

    No.

    Because, if you do that, you end up with a mix of all events, locations etc  because of the selection schemes.

     

    As a matter of facts to solve this, one should be able to make a selection mixing "and" and "or" conditions on the keywords.

     

    E.g.

     

    Or "1 star"

    Or "2 stars"

    OR "3 stars"

    And "Trip to London 2014"

     

    But is is not possible, as you only have two selection schemes "all conditions" (AND) or "any condition" (OR)

     

    To achieve this, one should use two smart albums selection sequentially...

     

     

    So either makes it possible to make more advanced selections.

    Or they should have migrated the "star ratings" as "figures" (and no alphabetical terms).

     

    That would have allowed to continue with operators like > and <.

  • by gxtxmc,

    gxtxmc gxtxmc Apr 29, 2015 10:50 AM in response to carjufi
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    Apr 29, 2015 10:50 AM in response to carjufi
  • by McRoger,

    McRoger McRoger Apr 29, 2015 11:45 AM in response to gxtxmc
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    Apr 29, 2015 11:45 AM in response to gxtxmc

    Thanks but this just describes what we already know without proposing alternative solutions.

     

    According this these pages "this is not a bug of the migration process or a functional regression, it is a feature of Photos". 


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  • by ReganRosenfeld,

    ReganRosenfeld ReganRosenfeld May 7, 2016 12:16 PM in response to carjufi
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    May 7, 2016 12:16 PM in response to carjufi

    All you have to do is pick Text as the filter type in the smart Album and type in a word that would be in the location you wants GPS description - for example Cancun.

  • by esilvester,

    esilvester esilvester May 24, 2016 8:43 AM in response to ReganRosenfeld
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    May 24, 2016 8:43 AM in response to ReganRosenfeld

    thanks!  obvious but just couldn't see it.