Drag and drop from Photos? Nope.

You are welcome - The Photos Application or the media browser is the only way to access your Photos library and while it was possible to go directly into the iPhoto library it was not supported adn was not the correct way to do it

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Wrong assumption? Since decades of Windows and MacOS dragging and dropping any item means copy and paste.

But never when dragging photos in macOS from any Photo Library.

Photos in iPhoto, Aperture, Photos are not files. They are photos that need to be rendered as an image file according to the adjustments you applied, when you need a file of the current version of the photo. When you export a photo from Photos you have to specify the format and the resolution of the image file you want to create. Dragging and dropping from iPhoto, Aperture, or Photos is a shortcut for using the current preview as the file to be exported, the same you would get when using the Media Browser. The dragged file can be the original file, if it small and you did not yet apply any adjustments to the photo, but that is not guaranteed.

I never used that too, it's a strange thing to navigate through all of your photos library via this tiny and uncomfortable windows looking file browser.

Why use that when you already have a nice photo app for browsing and selecting called photos. I don't get the idea of this unintuitive workflow.

Sorry, i meant copying because there is a little plus icon like when you drag with finder plus alt (?). What I was wondering about the fact, that only lowres copies of the photo is copied rather than an exact copy like it is used to be in all other UX cases.

I thought photos like iphoto should be a simple and nothing to learn about app for handling your photos library.

Since I am learning some much specialities and around the corner tricks for simple tasks and many other people who are irritated how to get along with their basic needs i must be wrong.

First time I hear that, I thought it's just as simple as it looks. Like in other Photo libraries as Windows photos or Googles Picasa I used for years.

Thanks for the enlightenment. How could someone know that, apple is not telling that when you start the program. And it's nothing to expect as a user.

What I was wondering about the fact, that only lowres copies of the photo is copied rather than an exact copy like it is used to be in all other UX cases.

It's not a "lowres" copy, it's a lower resolution copy. And it is not the same as any other UX cases, you just assume it is.

The problem is that you've not grasped the nature of iPhoto, Photos, Aperture (and indeed, Lightroom). These databases make vast use of virtualisation - that is, they make all changes virtually - the original file is never changed - and that's why you can go back to the original image at any time. So the image is a different thing from the file, particularly if there have been any edits on it. The only time a change is committed to a file is when it's exported.

Exporting is tedious to do if you do a lot of it. There are a lot of options in the export panel, and to have to reset them each time is boring. So, for those situations where a 'good-for-most-things' version of the image will do - if you're dropping into a Word Processing document, an email or so on - they use the Preview. It's convenient. It's easy. And, frankly, it works for most people in most cases. In fact, you didn't even notice the difference.

If you want to edit the original in another app then each of these offer ways to do that without exporting - external editors in iPhoto, Aperture and Lightroom, extensions in Photos. They allow you to round trip from the database to the other editor and back.

Finally, then you can simply export, in a variety of formats and qualities from each of these apps.

All that's happened here is that you've made a guess at how these apps work and you've made an error.

The problem with 'Show In Finder' is that it's dangerous to the Library. As we saw on here, literally thousands of times, users damaged their library by moving or renaming items. That was bad enough with iPhoto, where you only trashed your own library. But with Photos making those kinds of changes risks not only trashing the library on the local machine but also the iCloud Photo Library and the libraries on any linked devices as well. So the potential for catastrophe is enormous.

Plus, given all the other ways to access the image, why would you need it? Tell su what you're trying to do, which version you're hoping to get, and perhaps we can suggest a workflow for you.

how about something as elemental as 'show in finder!?' I'm growing angrier by the moment.

You can use SHow in Finder for referenced photos, because these photos will not b stored in iCloud. But managed photos may be stored only in iCloud, and there is would be nothing to reveal int he Finder.

I am exporting a large-ish (30) batch of reference images captured with an iPhone from Photos.

Drag and drop to finder works occasionally- IF I select fewer than 5 images. Memory and processing/bus speed shouldnt be an issue on late '13 Mac Pro with 64gigs of RAM (closed all other applications). My major gripes are a lack of any indication that the application is processing, export duration is prohibitively long, and functionality is uncertain - no error messages are displayed.

Implementing a progress bar for exports - at the very least - should be remedied. Exports take so long that I thought the function was broken - I even checked permissions on the destination.

Given that hey have proven problematic in Lightroom, m

ight my export (and drag and drop) issues stem from the 'live' feature of iPhone images? Previously I had avoided similar issuesa with iPhoto by 'show in finder.' I apprecIate thereference of the decision to remove this functionality, though with its removal, and the indifference developers have shown to UX in this iteration of Photos, I'll increase my reliance upon The Adobe suite of apps for my personal photography - though I'll miss the conveinience letting separate apps delineate the personal/professional boundary for me.

wow. 'It just doesn't work' is Apple's new slogan. Iphotos: drag a photo to Mail, you're good. Photos: Its just doesn't work. Nothing to do with if its a 3rd party product: Apple have lost basic functionality in their own core software. This is a massive insult to users as evidenced by hundreds of comments here.

don't get me started on the other crass limitations of Photos like inability to view as list.

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Yep, works for me too, I wonder why people embarrass themselves like this with online tantrums rather than taking a little time to think before posting.

My theory is that they enjoy (whether they could admit it or not), the feeling of righteous indignation. Having indulged in that feeling once or twice, I do understand its (very short term) satisfaction. But then, yes, I usually feel like an idiot.

Winston Churchill wrote:

I don't particularly think that getting annoyed about something and having a bit of a rant about it is all that embarrassing.

I find it a bit embarrassing if I do it in public. But the problem is, once you build up a head of steam about something, you stop looking at it rationally. So, I agree, investigate first.

Most are multiples of the same person posting more than once, many of the remaining numbers are actually users like I that are actually disagreeing with you, the handful of people who are actually complaining about Photos are complaining about a different matter to you and in actual fact the number of people that claim not to be able to drag photos into Mail is just one, which is you.

Absolutely to the point. As for drag and drop from Photos to Mail, it works perfectly, I must do it 3 or 4 times a day every day on various Macs, it's so straight forward I don't even believe you anymore.