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My photos were getting too big for my mac so I started putting them onto an external hard drive by simply dragging them across and renaming them. I would now like to merge the various libraries into one.
1. Can I do this and not loose my Events and Faces
MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)
Photos does not support to merge libraries.
You can only export the photos from one library and import them into the other library to unite your libraries.
1. Can I do this and not loose my Events and Faces
Photos does not have events, only moments, and moments will be created automatically.
If you want to safe the albums that Photos created from the iPhoto events, export the photos from each album separately and import them for each album individualy. Then recreate the album from all photos in the last Import album.
Faces cannot be transferred this way. When you export photos, you can as´dd the faces names as keywords, but you would have to recreate the faces thumbnails.
iPhoto does not have a merge feature - Aperture does and the paid version of iPhoto Library Managerdoes
Both will keep all photo metadata and faces adn events- projects can not be merged with IPLM
I will request that this thread be moved to the iPhoto for Mac forum
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Merging two iPhoto libraries into one
