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Q: Organization issues with iCloud Photo Sharing and iCloud Photos Library

The new release of Photos has resolve many organization issues for users of Aperture who migrate to Photos. My Aperture library contains 17000+ photos, the majority were scanned into the system ... date was not as key as story, title and manual sorting. The photos were organized by projects (decades) and albums for each year of the decade. Due to the improvements of the second release I was able to create the Photos library without losing the organization, metadata, photo description, etc. Each photo album is resorted by title. All the migrated photo albums show up in the Photos Library under iPhoto Events (decades) and the albums per year under each event.

I then decided to use iCloud. It took a week and a half for the building of the iCloud Library which does not accept the organization I used in Aperture and Photos. The design uses moments, collections and years to automatically organize photos and videos. This negates all the work I have done. I used the Time Machine to rebuild the Photos Library. I hope that Apple will continue to improve Photos and address this issue soon. I will not use icloud for the sharing of my photos. I'll wait for your improvements and / or wait for Zenfolio's new add on for Photos (works well with Aperture).

Tested the photo sharing capability. The organization of the album stayed the same. All looked good. One issue though: the photo description, faces information and some other metadata was not moved to iCloud. Is there a way to ensure that the photo metadata is made available in the shared album? or will you address this issue in the future?  I have 17,366 Photos, 73 Videos, 28 Folders, 200 albums. Would the sharing of the 200 albums replace the need of the iCloud Library?


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Posted on Oct 26, 2015 1:43 PM

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  • by léonie,Solvedanswer

    léonie léonie Oct 27, 2015 7:10 AM in response to rogerhermans
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    Oct 27, 2015 7:10 AM in response to rogerhermans
    The organization of the album stayed the same. All looked good. One issue though: the photo description, faces information and some other metadata was not moved to iCloud.

    Another drawback of the shared albums is, tat the pixel size of the photos is limited.  It is meant for sharing the photos, but not to create an iCloud Photo Library. The quality of the photos might be reduced.

    iCloud Photo Sharing FAQ - Apple Support

    When shared, photos taken with standard point-and-shoot cameras, SLR cameras, or iOS devices will have up to 2048 pixels on the long edge. Panoramic photos can be up to 5400 pixels wide.
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    rogerhermans rogerhermans Oct 27, 2015 7:41 AM in response to léonie
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    Oct 27, 2015 7:41 AM in response to léonie

    Leonie, I don't agree that the problem was solved. What happened to the metadata of the photos of the album moved to iCloud Photo Sharing? in particular description, faces information? Thx for your help.

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    léonie léonie Oct 27, 2015 9:28 AM in response to rogerhermans
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    Oct 27, 2015 9:28 AM in response to rogerhermans
    Leonie, I don't agree that the problem was solved.

    Then why did you mark the question as solved?  Only the original poster can press the green "Solved" button.

    What happened to the metadata of the photos of the album moved to iCloud Photo Sharing? in particular description, faces information? Thx for your help.

    As I said, the Shared Albums are meant for sharing photos with selected people - stream  the photos to friends or family, not as a permanent cloud library.  Most of the metadata are stripped from the photos before adding them to the shared albums, probably for privacy reasons.  There is no way to use shared albums to store your library in iCloud with all metadata preserved.

     

    iCloud Photo Library, on the other hand, is preserving most of the metadata and albums. The Photos.app on www.icloud.com does not show the smart albums and keywords, but if you look at the iCloud Photo Library from another Mac, you will see, that all metadata tags are there. The Faces are the one exception. Only the searchable Faces tags will sync to iCloud, but not the faces thumbnails: 

    This page explains, what iCloud Photo Library is syncing between Macs: Use Photos and iCloud Photo Library on multiple Mac computers - Apple Support