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Q: Tool bar for Moments????

I keep seeing in customer support a tool bar at the top of the Moments screen that allows you to toggle between albums, collections, years and projects. This tool bar does not appear at the top of the screen as shown in app notes. Can't find anything in View to turn on. Do I need to re-install?

Mac Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)

Posted on Jun 24, 2015 3:07 PM

by Terence Devlin,Solvedanswer
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A:

Turn off the Sidebar in the View menu

Posted on Jun 24, 2015 3:25 PM

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  • by Terence Devlin,Solvedanswer

    Terence Devlin Terence Devlin Jun 24, 2015 3:25 PM in response to rdd2sf
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    Jun 24, 2015 3:25 PM in response to rdd2sf

    Turn off the Sidebar in the View menu

  • by rdd2sf,

    rdd2sf rdd2sf Jun 24, 2015 7:40 PM in response to Terence Devlin
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    Jun 24, 2015 7:40 PM in response to Terence Devlin

    Worked - thanks! Do you know if they eliminated the functionality to combine Events in this iteration? You used to be able to combine by simply dragging one Event on top of another, but that doesn't seem to work anymore.

  • by LarryHN,

    LarryHN LarryHN Jun 24, 2015 10:04 PM in response to rdd2sf
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    Jun 24, 2015 10:04 PM in response to rdd2sf

    There are no events in photos so there is no way to combine nonexistent things

     

    You can combine albums by showing the sidebar and opening an album and dragging the contents (or selected photos) to the destination album in the sidebar

     

    LN

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Jun 24, 2015 10:18 PM in response to rdd2sf
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    Jun 24, 2015 10:18 PM in response to rdd2sf
    I keep seeing in customer support a tool bar at the top of the Moments screen that allows you to toggle between albums, collections, years and projects.

    If the sidebar is showing you can switch between Moments, Collections, Years using the arrow buttons to the right of the red-gold-green traffic light buttons in the toolbar, if you are viewing the library using the topmost "Photos" view.

     

    The Albums, Shared Albums, Projects are accessible from the sidebar as well. You can collapse parts of the sidebar by clicking the hidden Show/Hide controls to the far right of the titles "Albums", "Projects". The hidden controls will show, when you hover the pointer there.

    In the screenshot below I have hidden the Shared section of the sidebar.

    Screen Shot 2015-06-25 at 07.10.39GMT.png

  • by léonie,Helpful

    léonie léonie Jun 24, 2015 10:24 PM in response to léonie
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    Jun 24, 2015 10:24 PM in response to léonie

    I forgot.

    At any time, toolbar showing or not, you can use the keyboard shortcuts to navigate to albums, collections, years and projects.

    https://help.apple.com/photos/mac/1.0/?lang=en#/pht56eafa987

     

    Screen Shot 2015-06-25 at 07.20.23GMT.png

    My library is so large, that I rarely use the Albums view.  There are just too many albums, so I keep the sidebar showing at all times. That make it easier to drag photos to albums.

  • by rdd2sf,

    rdd2sf rdd2sf Jun 24, 2015 10:54 PM in response to LarryHN
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    Jun 24, 2015 10:54 PM in response to LarryHN

    Huh? ! Click on "Show Sidebar", Larry, and you will see iPhoto Events. All of my pictures are still organized as events, and they cannot be combined using the sidebar. Are you saying that I now need to create "albums" out of all of my "events" in order to combine them?

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Jun 24, 2015 11:03 PM in response to rdd2sf
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    Jun 24, 2015 11:03 PM in response to rdd2sf
    Click on "Show Sidebar", Larry, and you will see iPhoto Events. All of my pictures are still organized as events, and they cannot be combined using the sidebar

    The iPhoto Events folder is a fake and work-around. When Photos migrated your iPhoto Library it created an album for each event, so the names of your events were preserved. But these are albums and not events. There are no events in Photos, as Larry explained.

    See this support document:  How Photos handles content and metadata from iPhoto and Aperture - Apple Support

     

    iPhoto events did partition your iPhoto library in disjoint sets of photos. Each photo was in exactly one event and you move photos between events. Albums are differently. They do not partition the library, because a photo can be used in many albums.

     

    Photos is partitioning your library into Moments instead of events.  Every photo is in one moment, but moments are created automatically and you cannot name the moments or merge them like you could with events.

  • by rdd2sf,

    rdd2sf rdd2sf Jun 24, 2015 11:05 PM in response to léonie
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    Jun 24, 2015 11:05 PM in response to léonie

    Many thanks, Leonie!

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Jun 25, 2015 12:07 AM in response to rdd2sf
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    Jun 25, 2015 12:07 AM in response to rdd2sf

    You're welcome!

  • by LarryHN,

    LarryHN LarryHN Jun 25, 2015 7:10 AM in response to rdd2sf
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    Jun 25, 2015 7:10 AM in response to rdd2sf
    ! Click on "Show Sidebar", Larry, and you will see iPhoto Events.

    Those are albums created during the migration - they have names that match the events they were created from but they are not events - they are albums

    Are you saying that I now need to create "albums" out of all of my "events" in order to combine them?

     

    Not at all - again you have no events in photos  they do not exist - you have albums which may include "event" in the name but thaat does not make them events - they are albums

     

    You can combine albums by showing the sidebar and opening an album and dragging the contents (or selected photos) to the destination album in the sidebar

    LN