I lost a smart album with hundred of photos because it was conditioned on GPS location. How can I recreate the album?

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I lost a smart album with hundred of photos because it was conditioned on GPS location. How can I recreate the album?

Upgraded from iPhoto to Photos.

In iPhoto I had a smart album with hundreds of photos from a particular GPS location.

After the upgrade to Photos the smart album was gone. I still had the photographs hidden among thousands of others.

Now how do I find the photos based on GPS data and define a smart album to do that?

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3), New Photos app lost my smart album

Posted on Apr 10, 2015 12:50 PM

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Apr 15, 2015 2:23 PM in response to ClaySlayer

You can simply search for the name of the location and all the photos taken there will show up, so there seems to be no need for a Smart Album to organize by location.

If you absolutely require the Smart Albums that are not supported in Photos (yet) you can just continue to use iPhoto; your existing library will still be available under a different name, unless you manually deleted it.

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