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Having problems with iCloud photos downloading VERY slowly and making duplicates?
I am having a lot of problems with my iCloud library when I edit photos or share photos ...it takes forever to download from the cloud (it keeps saying ‘Preparing...” and the circle (that indicates the download progress) barely moves. Also, when I use the ‘share sheet’ it takes forever for it to... -
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(MacOS Photos) Unable to copy library from NAS drive to local iMAC drive
Hi, I have been using Photos on my iMAC with my single photo library located in my NAS Drive. As it is quite slow to always access the NAS, I have decided to move the library to my iMAC locally, and do a backup once in a while instead. But I don't know how to get it work. I first closed photos... -
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downloading pics from a website
How can i download pictures from a website? If i recall there used to be some feature (i think in inspect elements ? ) that one could see all the photos that were used in a website and download them.- zoran
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- download photos website
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- Forum: Web Design and Development
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Best app to remove duplicates from Apple Photos library
I have a large number of duplicate photos in the Apple Photos library after regrettable selecting "consolidate photos" from the menu. It appears to have made 2 copies over every photo I had when I did that, so I have 3 of every photo in my library My research has turned up good reviews for... -
iPhone iOS 11.2.6 - iPhone Storage Wrong
I have an 8 Plus (64GB). Bizarrely, iPhone Storage in Settings is reporting that the Photos folder is 71.02GB in size. How is this possible on a 64GB device? -
Replacing image files in Photos
So for some reason years ago when I was exporting my RAW files to jpeg's, I decided to do them at varying lower resolutions since displays were not capable of much higher. Now I would like to export full resolution files. I have been doing faces and tagging in the Photos/iCloud photos. Is...- randy98mtu
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- icloud photo library icloud photos photos photos app
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- Forum: Mac Apps
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Photos App Freezing in iOS 11.2
Configuration: iOS 11.2.6, iPhone X Details: Often when I try to send photos and/or videos (regardless of send method, email and iMessage this happens) the app just hangs at the screen to enter the recipient name and the photos are attach (i.e. the TO: line). Killing the Photos app and the...- WannaGoMac
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- freezing halt ios11 iphone x photos
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- Forum: iOS 11
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iCloud photos not downloading to OSX photos app
Up until recently, all my photos were downloading to my photos app (in OSX 10.13.3). For the past few weeks, however, no new pictures are being downloaded. Details: 1) All photos show up in iCloud photos, and when I take a picture with my phone it appears in iCloud photos correctly. 2) I have...- petersw
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- icloud photos
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- Forum: Apple Music, Apple Pay/Card, iCloud, Fitness+
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Photo Upscaling Warning Retina & 4K (aka upsampling)
The following Mac Apps (Photos,Preview,Safari,Mail) are trashing display of image files on (at least) MBP's w/Retina display including when clamshell ported via HDMI to 4k display using monitor at SysPref display default scaling. Same trouble happening on a friends newer MBP w/Retina Display...- kathmandu04akit
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- 100% 4k display actual size fuzzy images photos preview retina upsampling upscaling
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- Forum: MacBook Pro
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Photos - need set-up help
Ok, Apple is giving us very little choice but to migrate to the truly crappy Photos app from iPhoto as they are slowly hobbling iPhoto so I figure I'll make the move. Problem I have is this... I tried it a while back & gave up due to the enormous number of missing features & the truly... -
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Finding unique photos in two photo libraries
I have two Mac Photo libraries which have essentially the same content bar a few hundred images. Is there a way to identify the unique images present in one library but not the other? (either using built in tools or a 3rd party app) The OS 10.11 El Capitan. The overall size of each library is... -
Resolved Help please: transfer/recover all photos from iPad 2 (2011)
Bought my Mam a new iPad (5th Gen, A1822, 2017) and wanted to transfer all her photos (thousands of photos, nearly 9 GB) to it from an iPad 2 (A1396, 2011). Problem: Neither restoring from a current Backup via iTunes (Windows10 Laptop) nor extracting photos with an additional software show and...- CoronaOrange
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- help ipad 2017 ipad2 photos
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- Forum: iPad
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iPhone 6(S)/Plus "Your Storage is Full" as size of iPhone Photos grows from 3 to 21 GB
I'd welcome any assistance in resolving an issue with my iPhone. The storage has been consumed by Photos as something has gone haywire between Photos, iCloud,and iOS. Here is a full post: http://ecrosstexas.com/blog/2018/your-iphone-storage-is-full- ecrosstexas
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- icloud ios iphone 6s photos
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- Forum: iPhone
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Mac iCloud Photos not updating using iPhone Personal Hotspot
Any ideas on this one? My iCloud photo library isn't updating when my Mac (high sierra - latest version) is connected via my iPhone 7+ (iOS 11 - latest version) using the personal hotspot connection. I also use iStat and can see there is no network activity on the Photos app. Everything else... -
Photos App has major flaws
I recently wanted to organise my photo library. I found that we had more than 60000 photos, so some organization and pruning was needed. I thought that I had found the perfect method, using Photos in combination with iCloud (I had planned to buy the 200 GB upgrade for iCloud). However, I...- frodorock
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- date export mac photos time
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- Forum: macOS High Sierra (10.13)
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Photos Mac app and iCloud issue
I recently turned off "iCloud Photo Library" to save some space on my iCloud account. I didn't realize it at the time but my wife really liked the ability to browse all of her photos on her iPhone. So I upped our storage and and clicked iCloud sharing back on....but I still get the "XX days...- Centris 650
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- icloud icloud photo library photos
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- Forum: Photography
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Lightroom CC $9.99 1TB as an Alternative for Photos
Anyone else using LightRoom CC as an alternative to Apple Photos? I have been a bit intrigued lately with decoupling from iCloud without going to Microsoft or Google. Anyone else attempting to replace photos with Lightroom. (LightRoom CC is a slimmed down version of Ads Lightroom Classic...- tekfranz
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- adobe icloud alternative iphone photos alternative leave icloud lightroom cc mac photos alternative photos photos alternative photos app
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- Forum: Apple Music, Apple Pay/Card, iCloud, Fitness+
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Photos Library, Share between Users?
We want to share a Photos Library between two Users /Logins (on the same iMac) under macOS [10.13]. Have successfully moved the [Pictures/Photos.photoslibrary] from User1 to the Shared directory. And adjusted Permissions. No problem for User1, but the same Photo Library still can't be accessed... -
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How to Optimise a Humungous 500GB Photos Library?
Hi all First time post! Hope you will be able to offer some advice My Photos library is 67,000 items and 490GB. Within that there is 545 movie clips which amount to 45 GB. I don't think there are many duplicates, but I have not checked with one of the available apps as yet. I have a new 2018...- Stevie-weevie
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- library optimisation photos
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- Forum: Mac Apps
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Photos.app performance on i5-680 with 50.000 photos..
Hello everyone My mother has an iMac mid 2010 with an i5-680. She uses it primarily for emails and for handling all her photos. When she hit the 40.000 photo mark I upgraded the internal HDD to a Samsung EVO 850 1TB SSD, to speed the system up a bit. But now she is up to 58.000 photos and...
