Mac Photos not showing up to upload?

I am having the same problem and cannot seem to find a solution anywhere!

I am using Safari and attempting to upload a photo to a website.

I am also having the same problem when attempting to change my desktop photo. Most of the pictures that I see in Photo are not available.

As suggested above I do have the "use in system photo library" option greyed out. Please help!

When I browse through the Photos program, all my photos are there and in albums, but they don't seem to show up anywhere else to post.

Did you enable your current Photos library as the system photos library?

With Photos running open the Photos > Preferences > General panel.

Click "Use as System Photos Library", if the option is not grayed out. Then restart the Mac.

Are you using iCloud Photo Library? Then see this link: If Media Browser doesn't show your entire Photos library - Apple Support

Ok - so what if the option to Use as System Photo Library is grayed out? (Which mine is when I try this).

If it looks like this, the library you are currently using is the system library. The option is greyed out to indicate, that the library is the system library.

Where does the Photos library not show? Which Browser are you using? Which MacOS X version do you have?

Hi Leonie,

I have done all steps and no solution.. I have upgraded icloud to 2TB to be sure that i have enough storage, photo application is open, conected to power so doesnt need to save energy.. still nothing working. any tips?

I have had a similar problem. Not all photos were visible for upload even though I had only one library and it was already set as the "System Photo Library." In my case it helped to create a new library just so I could switch to it as the "System Photo Library" and then switch back the original. To create a new library, or to switch between libraries I held down the option key immediately after launching Photos.

Ok - so what if the option to Use as System Photo Library is grayed out? (Which mine is when I try this). Why is it grayed out, and how do you resolve this when this is the case?

Thanks.

Did you ever find a solution to this problem?

You're welcome 🙂

I am also having the same issue and have tried everything you suggested and it is STILL not working - my option is grayed out and im using the latest versions of browsers...