Q: What is the difference between Photos and All Photos

Your observations on what happens while the iCloud sync is going on, are indeed interesting.  Our previous replies were referring to the stable state of the library, when the library is in sync, or is not syncing at all.  Are you using "Optimize Mac Storage"?  I do not use this option on any of my macs, and the "Photos" does always show exactly as many photos as I can see in the library in my Master folder. Photos is showing the photos that have been imported to the library, minus hidden Photos.

i agree!, my wish is for photos bring back the features use to work fine on iPhotos, now with the new photos,  i notice i take much less photos, and when i do, i gave up on organizing my photos! it is a chore, no longer a pleasure!

Cocoplum201 wrote:

 

my wish is for photos bring back the features use to work fine on iPhotos,

And exactly what features are those?

LN

and when i do, i gave up on organizing my photos! it is a chore, no longer a pleasure!

Photos is meant to free you from the task of having to organize the library by making most f the organisation automatic. Only that means, that we will start fighting Photos, if we want the organisation different. I use the predefines library items "Moments, Collections, Years", the predefined smart albums, and all other organisation I am doing is adding metadata to the photos so I can create a few additional smart albums. But I no longer bother with moving photos between library items. In iPhoto I invested a lot of work into moving photos between events, and now the collections are automatically creating this structure.