photos app displays each photo event rather than just organized albums....Is there a way to get a format of my choosing when viewing thr photos app.....Thought spple tv version 4 might fix this issue
iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2012), Mac OS X (10.7.5)
Photos displays photos from your photo stream album or your shared albums. You have full control over what is in those albums, I'm not sure what it is you can't do.
on apple tv i connect to my computer and it properly displays my photos from my computer but shows each event and only shows the albums i have organized at the very end....A very long journey to get to the end....How can i format it to show only the albums
It sounds like you are using iPhoto for your photos and viewing them via the computers app.
If you don't wish to include events in what you see, deselect them in iTunes > File > home sharing > Choose Photos...
thank you for following me on this....i have had this trouble with apple tv for years...now have the latest and it continues...I understand exactly what you are saying....I just checked and the file the computer is to share is the photos file....The photos app on apple tv has never picked my full file of photos either iphoto or photos...Now the photos app on apple tv is blank and the file i get from going thru"computers" does work but it shows all the events...thousands...I cant get why the photos app doesnt just use my icloud drive saved photos...should be easy...but..
OK which photo application are you using to organise your photos on your Mac.
If you use the Photos app you will view photos from the internet, if you use the computers app you will view photos from your computer. Which one you want to use may depend on the answer to the question above.
i use the photos app...Former iphoto file is still in picture folder but not the app i use any longer...
I want to be able to use the photo app on apple tv to didplsy photo albums...I am signed in to icloud and iTunes appropriately....One issue may be i have a different apple id for itunes and icloud...A long time issue....Home sharing signs in with itunes i believe....Is tha why i get no files from from icloud based photos file...
I think the first issue is that you may still be selecting the iPhoto app as the source for your photos in iTunes > File > Home sharing > Choose Photos...
Which app do you have showing here.
i show photos....just like it shows here...i have selected "all photos"
OK, so are you saying that the Photos under the computers app on the Apple TV don't match those you have selected in iTunes.
Not really....except in format it does match.....under the computers app I am fine in terms of info but not format...l the albums are at the end of a lot of scolling.... under the photos app. i get nothing but 3 empty folders...
I'm struggling to visualise the issue a little here. I'm not sure where these events come in, there are no longer any events in Photos, there are only albums (this is why I thought you might still be using iPhoto).
Could these events actually be albums that Photos has created from your iPhoto library events when it migrated all your photos over.
exactly they are albums that started in iphotos years ago....
AS i mentioned my iphotos file is still in my imac users>pictures file...I havent deleted it cause my reseach told me that photos uses both photos and iphotos to create what i see in photos...I just got a new imac and hoped that the pre installed sftware would just make iphotos go away but it didnt...The app wont disappear from my ipad or iphone either....
mahoganyfil wrote:
I havent deleted it cause my reseach told me that photos uses both photos and iphotos to create what i see in photos...
Not quite. It uses one set of originals to create the databases for both iPhoto and Photos. Databases are small, so deleting your iPhoto library would save you very little space and you'd lose a valuable back up should you need it. I'd keep it around for a while yet.
OK I think I'm with you now. I believe there are 2 things you could look at doing.
If you just don't wish to see those events on your TV, change the settings at iTunes > File > home sharing > Choose... to selected albums and then just choose the albums you wish to see on TV.
or
If you still want the events on the TV but want them after more important photos, go back to your photos app and re-arrange the order of the albums in the side bar.
After doing this allow a little time for the order to change in the home share settings and then click on Apply.
Of course you can do be selective and manipulate the order for best results.
Beautiful...I get it....Thanks so much for sticking with me....Very helpful
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