photos and iPhotos export have different size and info.

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photos and iPhotos export have different size and info.

using iPhoto on mac to access photos on iphone6p through iCloud. when exporting those photos as maximum resolution to my mac hard disk, there is no time and location information associated with it. using the new app Photo, when exporting as original, it does have time and location info. But its size is less then iPhoto.

How can I get original size with original time and location info. at the same time when exporting iphone6p photos to my mac disk?

Thank you very much

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

Posted on May 26, 2015 7:59 PM

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Yer_Man

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May 26, 2015 10:52 PM in response to Sky777

This is confusing, why are you exporting from iPhoto to access material on iCloud? Why not use Photos?

On the issue if quality: you need to separate two concepts: the Photo and the Jpeg. A Jpeg is a compression format designed for images. It's a box containing a photograph.

When you export at Original, then it's a direct copy of the photo and box as created by your camera.

When you export at any other setting a new box is created and your photo is put in it. As it's a new box, a new amount of compression can be applied to it - Maximum quality is the minimum amount of compression. That's why you can have a larger file size than your camera created.

Are you exporting from iPhoto or Photos. Can you clarify? In either case be sure to check the boxes for location information and other metadata.

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