Andreas Isenmann

Q: Move a Photo Book from MacBook to iMac

In my workflow I'm used to create photo books on my MacBook Air. When the work is done I'd like to review the book on my iMac before order the book.

 

In the past I did transfer the whole iPhoto database to achieve this.

 

How should I do this now having all photos in sync through iCloud?

 

 

Books don't get synchronized and I didn't find a export / import function...

MacBook Air, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3), iCoud Fotostream

Posted on Apr 17, 2015 3:50 AM

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  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Apr 17, 2015 5:53 AM in response to Andreas Isenmann
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    Apr 17, 2015 5:53 AM in response to Andreas Isenmann

    I'd create the book in a separate Photos library, that is not the System Photo Library and not synced to iCloud. Import just the photos you want to use for your book into this library and copy the book library to to other Mac, when done.

     

    To create a second Photos Library launch Photos while holding down the alt/options key. This will bring up a library chooser panel.

  • by Andreas Isenmann,

    Andreas Isenmann Andreas Isenmann Apr 17, 2015 8:21 AM in response to léonie
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    Apr 17, 2015 8:21 AM in response to léonie

    Well, this might be interesting for some people but in my case this won't help.

     

    My big photo library is organized in a Adobe Ligthroom database but I loved iPhoto to just make beautiful Books and Calendars. So my full workflow is to export only my best shots to Apple Photo to create something with it.

     

    If I can't use iCloud to sync all photos including my Books and have to take some USB drive to exchange different libraries instead, then I can quit iCloud Photostream and save the money for iCloud every month. I really hoped to get rid of this copy task that I'v used in the past...

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Apr 17, 2015 8:30 AM in response to Andreas Isenmann
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    Apr 17, 2015 8:30 AM in response to Andreas Isenmann

    Have you seen this document?

    Use Photos and iCloud Photo Library on multiple Mac computers - Apple Support

     

    The books do not transfer between Macs, so you will have to transfer the library on a sneaker drive.

     

    I tried to copy a library, that is synced with iCloud to an external drive, to use it on another Mac, but that never succeeded, because the copied library could not be opened. Trying to open it, got stuck on trying to download items from iCloud.  I could only copy libraries, that are not the system photo library.

  • by Andreas Isenmann,

    Andreas Isenmann Andreas Isenmann Apr 17, 2015 8:56 AM in response to léonie
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    Apr 17, 2015 8:56 AM in response to léonie

    Yes I did find this document - after I activated iCloud Photostream, of corse... ;-)

     

    To be honest: I never thought that Apple could ever offer such a poor solution. They talked about hands off in email and other apps and I only saw that Photo now syncs the library to all devices. Of course it's clear that I might work on a photo book using my iPad (by the way -- why not ??) but I surely expected that the whole library and not just only parts of it get synchronized.

     

    I'll wait a couple of months to see if it gets better with some future software updates and if not I will cancel my iCloud memory and share my libraries using USB drives again.