Photos upgrade on High Sierra

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Photos upgrade on High Sierra

I upgraded my iMac to Mojave. When I opened Photos it upgraded my library and now I can not open the library on my MacBook running High Sierra. Can I upgrade Photos on High Sierra without converting to Mojave?

Mac OS X (10.7.5)

Posted on Nov 16, 2018 9:18 AM

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Answer 1

Old Toad

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Nov 16, 2018 10:35 AM in response to dadpope

No. The versions of Photos is different on Mojave and High Sierra. So in order to be able to open the library from your MacBook it will have to be upgraded to Mojave.

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léonie

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Nov 16, 2018 10:41 AM in response to dadpope

No, you cannot upgrade Photos separately to Photos 4.0. Photos is part of MacOS X. It is your a wrapper for calls to system services and Photos 4.0 needs macOS 14 Mojave.

You can create a downgraded version of your Photos Library to use on on your High Sierra Mac with the help of iCloud Photos.

Let your Mojave Mac upload the Photos Library to iCloud.
Then enable iCloud Photos Library on your High Sierra Mac for a new, empty Photos Library. The library will download from iCloud to your High Sierra Mac and create a local copy that is compatible with Photos 3.0 on High Sierra.

With your Photos Library in iCloud you can use the library from Mac with different versions of MacOS X.

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Photos upgrade on High Sierra

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