Is it possible to start a Photo photobook on my home iMac and then continue with the same photobook on a (yet to be purchased) MacBook Air when outside and, for example, recontinue the same photobook back at home on the iMac?
iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)
Not really - you would have to move the entire Photos library to the machine you want to use and then back
suggest to Apple - http://www.apple.com/feedback/photos.html
LN
Here's one way you might do what you want:
1 - create a new library just for the book.
2 - identify those photos you want and might want in the book and export from your working library to a folder on the Desktop.
3 - open the Book library and import those photos.
4 - obtain a flash drive with enough storage for your Book library and format OS X Extended (journaled) with ownership set to be ignored:
5 - drag the library onto the flash drive and take it between Macs to work on. If you find additional photos you want to use in the book repeat Steps 2 and 3.
Thanks, OT - that's helpful. That's broadly the only option I could think of bar some Apple or iCloud magic/synch function, but the tip re "ignore ownership" was something that would have stumped me!
I have 2 follow-up qs, one directly related, one not:
1) If I do as you suggest and create a new photobook on the MacBook Air (now ordered!), is there a way to copy the finished product back to my iMac so that all our photobooks are eventually in the same place?
2) After updating to Yosemite a while back, I just notcied that some of our old photobooks don't seem to have successfully transitioned to Photos from iPhoto. They first showed as a blank book icon with a cloud symbol in the bottom right corner, which I clicked expecting the photos to magically appear (about 60% of our old photobooks have popped up with images intact) but 2 days later, still nothing. The title, captions and layout are there, but no images. So my questions are:
a. is there any 'automatic' solution to get these to download to Photos properly?
b. I have (thankfully) been diligently backing up via both Time Machine and Carbon Copy Cloner. I have actually never used software to recover files/systems before, so wanted some tips on what would be the easiest way to recover the "missing" photobooks (hopefully they are in the back-ups, I upgraded several months back now), and what are the actual steps to achieve this and get the photobooks back into the Projects tab under Photos (again, so that everything is in one place).
Thanks again in advance for any help.
Not all photo books can be migrated from iPhoto to Photos. It will depend on the theme. Photo Books with unsupported themes will migrate as albums, see this help text:
How Photos handles content and metadata from iPhoto and Aperture - Apple Support
Some photo books and calendars, made with themes that are no longer supported in Photos, migrate to Albums.
And photo books are not stored in iCloud Photo Library. They are only locally available on the Mac where you created them. See: Use Photos and iCloud Photo Library on multiple Mac computers - Apple Support
I would finish the photo books you started in iPhoto and back up the old iPhoto Libraries, together with the current iPhto 9.6.1 application. Even if the photo books migrated to Photos the layout will have slightly changed, beause the new themes are dufferent. And create PDF versions of your older iPhoto books and save the finished PDF.
Thanks, Leonie.
I have now found my old Photobooks - still intact - in my iPhoto Library folder. Do you know how I can import those Photobooks into Photos? I would note that the copies in iPhotos (intact) and in Photos (no images but tiles, layout etc still exist) have the same project names. Do I need to do anything to old or new copies to ensure smooth import? Thanks!
Using multiple devices
