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Q: Best way to manage multiple libraries?

Before we start offering third party suggestions like PowerPhotos, please bear with me for a moment.

 

I have somewhere around 55,000 photos/videos in my iCloud Library. While I would ideally like to keep everything in one library for the sake of only having to manage faces/places/locations/keywords etc in one library, I'm finding it to be a bit less ideal since it is taking up a good deal of storage space on my many iPads/iPhone which in turn slows things down especially when accessing the photos app on iOS.

 

Unless anyone knows of a way to prevent iOS Photos from taking over my storage (even on 128GB options it's too much), or a way to create a separate iCloud Library while having the faces, etc be available for both iCloud Library and the Non-iCloud Library, I'm out of ideas aside from having 2 Photos Libraries, one of which is for iCloud, the other for my aged media, and have to manage faces and all other metadata for both.

 

I can imagine now...having to build a routine just to periodically move stuff from Library A to Library B. What a nightmare. Anyhow, does anyone have any insight to any of this? Thanks in advance!

Posted on Apr 27, 2016 9:21 AM

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