Since the new update from iPhotos to Photos, I now can't seem to simply drag and drop photos from Photos to another folder or straight into Photoshop. Am I doing something wrong is this now not possible? It's very frustrating and not an improvement if this can't be done. Any ideas?
iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)
If you upgrade your system to Sierra so you can get Photos 2.0 which is part of the system you can use any 3rd party image editor of your choice from within Photos. All you need to do is purchase the 99¢ External Editors For Photos from the App Store. This user tip shows how: External Editors in Photos Are Here
It is not a problem of Photos, but of older applications like Word or Powerpoint. You can drag and drop to Mail, to Pages, Keynote.
Photos is a completely new designed application, written for the newest MacOS X version Yosemite 10.10.3. All code has been written new from scratch, using the new frameworks developed for Yosemite. But that means hat older software is not fully compatible with Photos and needs to be updated.
Consider to use iPhoto, if you need to use older applications like the current MS Office software, until compatibility updates are available for Word or Powerpoint. When installing major system upgrades older software may become incompatible or at least no longer fully supported, because required services of the operating system may have changed.
For MacOS X 10.10.3 install iPhoto 9.6.1, it is working well with Yosemite. If you did not yet update to version 9.6.1, see this user tip:
Get iPhoto 9.6.1 if you didn't update before OS... | Apple Support Communities
You cannot drag and drop from Photos to older applications that have not yet been updated to be fully compatible with Photos and MacOS X 10.10.3. You will have to wait for an update fore Word, Powerpoint, etc, to make them fully compatible.
Hi Leonie,
Not really the sort of answer I was looking for. I'm only using Apple products, nothing Microsoft at all. I simply want to drag photos from Photos to a folder in Finder and I can't even do that. I used to be able to drag photos into Photoshop to edit them and that can't be done either. It's very frustrating as the only way I can do it is to download them and save them into the new folder individually. Very time consuming. I hope you get what I mean.
Cheers,
Cathie
Dragging to a folder in the Finder should work. Select the photos in a moment or in an album and drag to the folder.
But you cannot yet drag from Photos to Photoshop, until Photoshop will have been updated.
That is the problem with system upgrades, when the system has been completely rewritten and the way the applications interact changes. The upgrade from MacOS X 10.6.8 to MAcOS X 10.7 brought similar massive changes and made many applications incompatible.
Thanks Leonie,
I understand now. I'll try the Finder folder thing again and see it that works. I was trying to do it by dragging to a folder in Adobe Bridge, rather than Finder. Guess that was the problem. I'm literally updating all my Adobe products right now so hopefully they will have undated their software to cope with this.
Cheers,
Cathie
This doesn't solve anything for me. I liked the drag & drop function not only to open up photos in Illustrator, Photoshop & InDesign, but also to post things to various news sites, facebook, twitter, ebay, amazon, etc etc etc. I also can't just drag & drop into my email. SO ANNOYING.
Just realized it's not even iPhoto anymore...it's Photos...how can I just go back to before I did this STUPID update?
I know I can drag to the desktop & then drag it from there to my program, but why make me go thru that extra step, Apple?
Give me a workaround please. There has to be a way I can turn this function back on.
I did find iPhoto & am going to continue to use that. Thank goodness it didn't delete it!
Just realized it's not even iPhoto anymore...it's Photos...how can I just go back to before I did this STUPID update?
iPhoto is probably still in your Applications folder. Drag it back to the Dock and launch it. When you see a warning that your iPhoto Library has been migrated to Photos, click the "Open iPhoto" button. If the iPhotos icon is crossed out, update to iPhoto 9.6.1, the last compatibility update for iPhoto.
Apple stopped selling iPhoto, so it is a bit tricky to update. You will neither find an update on the Updates page of any App Store nor can you purchase iPhoto any longer. The update message, when you try to launch iPhoto is sending you on a wild goose chase. The only way to update is by reinstalling iPhoto, if you already own iPhoto and your purchase is associated with your AppleID at the Mac App Store
Barney-15E's user tip explains how to update to iPhoto 9.6.1 by reinstalling your purchase. Get iPhoto 9.6.1 if you didn't update before OS X 10.10.3
this is driving me nuts too. What used to take 4 seconds to do is going to take me hours... what a pain?! they MUST change this back to the way it used to be
I hope you are all sending feedback with a feature request to Apple to let them know in no uncertain terms that the ability to drag-and-drop items between applications is essential to the look-and-feel of a Mac. Having to copy and paste or go through menus is so clumsy compared to a simple drag and drop.
The feedback form is here: Apple - Photos - Feedback
Thanks Leonie,
I've just left feedback! Let's hope enough of us do, so Apple do something about it.
Cheers,
Cathie
I hope Apple and Adobe will work together on this.
I have the same problem with Adobe premiere. I have Adobe premiere pro cc and a Macbook Pro version 10.10.5.
It only lets me drag into a folder but not into Adobe Premiere 😟
My adobe premiere pro cc is from 2014 I wonder if it will work properly with Sierra.
I'm using Photoshop C3 from much earlier than 2014 with Sierra so I would imaging the 2014 CC version would work. Check with RoaringApps.com to see if the 2014 CC is compatible.
Why can't I drag and drop photos from Photos into Photoshop or another folder?
