Over the years I created several iphoto libraries and saved them to my time machine when I ran out of storage on my MacBook. Now I subscribe to iCloud Photos and have a larger iMac and would like to merge all the libraries into iCloud. Anyone have advice on how to get this done?
MacBook, macOS High Sierra (10.13.3), null
If you have Aperture installed in addition to iPhoto, you could merge the iPhoto Libraries using Aperture, before migrating them to Photos (Aperture 3.3: How to use Aperture to merge iPhoto libraries). It will save time, if you only have to upload one library to iCloud. And merging in Aperture will take care of duplicates between the libraries.
If you have Aperture installed in addition to iPhoto, you could merge the iPhoto Libraries using Aperture, before migrating them to Photos (Aperture 3.3: How to use Aperture to merge iPhoto libraries). It will save time, if you only have to upload one library to iCloud. And merging in Aperture will take care of duplicates between the libraries.
Migrate them to Photos and successively make each one the system library and let it upload to iCloud which will merger them - this gives more detail - Notes on Merging Photos Libraries
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Thank you! I ended up using the PowerPhoto option to save on time. I appreciate your help!
Then I would keep the original iPhoto Libraries as a backup, because PowerPhotos cannot merge the iPhoto Libraries completely - the originals and edited versions will no longer be paired.
Yes I will, thank you very much!
You're welcome 🙂
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