How to keep pictures from Photos on my Mac

How to keep pictures from Photos on my Mac

Do you mean keep from importing photos into a Photos library? Import from where and how?

With the amount of information you've provided it's impossible to offer a solution. We can't see your computer so we need to know the details of your problem and setup, i.e.:

• what system version are you running?
• what exactly is the problem, in detail?
• how much free space on your boot drive?
• how big is your library, i.e. how many photos?
• what fixes have you tried?
• where is your library located?
• did you apply any updates or upgrades just prior to the problem occurring?
• are you running a "managed" or "referenced" library?

• what type of Mac?
• have you run any "cleaning" or "optimizing" apps on your Mac?

All my pix were there OK, even the albums. However, I also want a my photos resident on my iMac.

If all your pix are there then what's the problem? Describe in detail what you setup is in Photos so we can understand what you're trying to tell us.

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all my photos are there.

Where is there?

Just to be a bit clearer, my understanding is that Photos is on iCloud therefore everything on/in it is in the cloud rather than on my Mac. Is that right?

Not at all - if you are talking about iCloud Photo Library (there are many iCloud services) then all of your photos are on all devices using ICPL - the originals are always on iCloud.com and on each device you select whether to have the originals or optimized versions

Can I make albums etc in Photos library? I am assuming it won't automatically go on to iCloud photos library.

Yes - Photos works exactly the same as always and you can make albums, edit etc - but since all devices are using the same library all changes you make on any device are made on all devices so your albums will be on all devices

Also can you change the names of a whole bunch of photos - what used to be called Batch Change in i`Photo

Depemnds on what you are calling names - there is no field called "name" in Photos (or iPhoto)

If you select a group of photos in Photos and right click and get info you can enter information in the info window and it will be applied to all selected photos (on all devices if you are using ICPL)

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The photos will not be in the cloud unless you setup your Photos library to use the iCloud Photo Library. They will be on your hard drive.

If you are using the iCloud Photo library and have the following two selected in Photos/iCloud preference pane

the full sized versions of your photos will also be in your library.

Post a screenshot of your Photos/iCloud preference pane so we can see how you've setup the library.

As for batch changing the titles that feature is not available in Photos. However, there are a could of Applescripts in the Photos for Mac User Tips for doing just that.

Application versions of those scripts can be downloaded from this tutorial page: P01 - Applescripts from Photos’ User Tips Compiled as Applications

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With these Preferences all your photos should be in your Photos Library on your Mac as well as in iCloud Photo Linrary.

And it says "Updated just now", so all photos should have finished downloading and syncing.

Also can you change the names of a whole bunch of photos - what used to be called Batch Change in i`Photo

Are you running the latest version of MAcOS X El Capitan? Then Photos can change the titles of multiple selected photos. Select all photos at once, then press the key combination ⌘I (for Get Info) and now you can change the the title, the description, the keywords, the location for all photos at once by typing it into the Info panel.