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  1. martinX

    DAM Photo editor

    So, it's nearly time to move on from Aperture... There are a number of photo editors popping up, and they all look quite capable, but there's not much talk of DAM. Can anyone recommend an Aperture replacement with good DAM that can be purchased outright? It doesn't have to have PS-like...
  2. Dinierto

    How can I copy my pictures/folders from Android to iPhone?

    I've had Android phones for years and I've just bought an iPhone 8+ 256 gb. I'd like to copy my pictures from my microSD card to my iPhone. It's approximately 80 gbs of pictures and they are in various folders/albums. I'd like to retain the folder structure if possible so that they show up in...
  3. D

    iCloud photos sync deleted library!

    After upgrading to a larger iCloud family account and turning on iCloud library sync or the first time on the wife’s iMac, around 24,000 photos have vanished from my wife’s Mac. And they aren’t in iCloud either. Fortunately she’s got Time Machine, BackBlaze, and SuperDuper (but come to...
  4. P

    Combined | iCloud photo sync issues on X

    Got two phone Xs this morning, one for me and one for my wife. I setup mine as brand new, she restored a backup but neither of them download photos from iCloud. I've tried turning iCloud photos off/on, reboot etc but nothing makes it start up. I'm on WiFi. Any ideas?
  5. Tekzilla

    iPhone X Photo Sync/Backup Issue

    So I restored my X from the Cloud and while I lost everything from during the 6 hour or so Activation debacle, all else was good. Well except that I had no photos. I thought it was just taking forever, but it turns out my silly self turned off Photo sync a while back to save cloud space. I...
  6. gaggle

    Photos.app how to remove downloads?

    Hi all! Been wondering about this for a while. Photos is supposed to shrink its library automatically when "Optimize Mac Storage" option is set. But I have two users on my machine and a large library on one user does not shrink when the other user runs low on space. So, is there a way to...
  7. D

    Mac is uploading duplicates after time machine backup

    Hi everyone, I recently bought a new mbp and I used a time machine backup to copy my whole system from one machine to the other (at this moment i still use them both but will sell the other one). Yesterday I restored my Photos app on the new mbp and I see now that it says 'Uploading 13.040...
  8. G

    Merging iPhoto and Photos Libraries

    Hi, So a few years back I accidentally unplugged my external hard drive and it seemed to mess up my iPhoto library in some way...I can't really remember what exactly happened but I can't open the library any more. Now I wan't to try and merge the photos from the old iPhoto library with my...
  9. D

    What's my Photos library size and how do I get it into iCloud?

    How do I determine the actual size of my Photos library? I've got a 144GB iPhoto library and a 161GB Photos library on my hard drive, suggesting 300GB of Photos. But within the Photos app, Info says I have 113GB GB of photos. Photos uploaded 80GB of photos into my 200GB iCloud family account...
  10. R

    iPhoto... supported but for how long?

    We use iPhoto to manage our 50k+ photo library for our small business. Putting aside all of the 'you need to face change...' arguments etc the simple fact is that Photos may be useful for people who's world revolves around the iOS & iCloud but there are people like us, who have been using...
  11. G

    iCloud Photos just deleted 4300 random photos

    I switched to iCloud Photos a bit over a month ago and successfully uploaded/synced around 16000 items across my devices. Today I noticed I couldn't find a few photos that I was SURE were there a week ago, low and behold 4300 random photos had been moved to the "Recently Deleted" section and...
  12. Mr. 123

    Cloud based based alternative to Photos (with iCloud sharing)

    Hello, I use iCloud Photo Sharing for all my photos that I take with my iPhone or iPad. However I also own a DSLR that I use and I am looking for another app/service to use for my DSLR pictures. I really like Aperture, but as I use both a home computer and a laptop - cloud sharing is rather...
  13. angelofioren

    iCloud Photo Reindexed itself for no reason

    My iCloud Photo Library on my iPhone 8 Plus completely removed itself and then updated itself. It was as if I signed out of iCloud and signed back in, even though I did not. It's gone back to normal, but it there any reason this would have happened? Is this a strange iOS bug?No photos were lost...
  14. H

    Camera Roll Now Holds All My Photos

    I have an iPhone 7 Plus running the latest version of iOS 11. I recently started using iCloud Photo Library shortly before updating to iOS 11. Everything seemed to be fine however I've noticed the camera roll album in the Photos app is no longer there and when I open the camera app and open the...
  15. I

    Photos keeps showing "What's New in Photos" every time

    Photos keeps showing "What's New in Photos" every time. This is on a machine I just installed fresh High Sierra on and migrated over. Just want to use photos without the welcome screen. Anyone else have this issue?
  16. I

    iPhone iOS 11 Photos offloading WAY too aggressively

    Anybody else notice a change in Photos storage optimization since iOS 11? I have a pretty big iCloud Photos library, about 170GB, and so of course I have "optimize phone storage" turned on. It's worked really well for me in the past, and I love having all those photos available. The full...
  17. W

    High Sierra Photo Library Upgrade Time?

    Hi All, I am considering upgrading my 2013 Macbook Pro (2.6 Quad Core, 16 RAM, ITB SSD, 750M 2Meg Video Card)) to High Sierra. I keep my Photos Library on an external 2TB SD over USB 3. My Photos Library is 1.1 TB and has over 100,000 photos. Everything is synced to iCloud and I keep multiple...
  18. spyran

    Downgraded High Sierra -> Sierra - Can't restore photos?

    I finally managed to downgrade from that atrocious os that is High Sierra back to Sierra on my late 2013 15" mbp. Unfortunately i had not made a time machine backup from when i was on Sierra, however i made one from High Sierra just incase and did a clean install of Sierra. However the problem...
  19. phillytim

    Any private photos app that lets you access them from other apps?

    Do any of the private photo vault apps allow you to seamlessly access the photos from other apps? Such as: can I use an app like Kik or Snapchat to access photos in the locked vault, without having to download the photos to my Camera Roll first?
  20. G

    HEIC and photo not full resolution

    Hi, I have some issues with HEIC and my photo workflow and wondering if anyone else has seen this. Workflow: Photos I edited in the Photos app I download once a month for backup on my PC via the iCloud.com website. Now with HEIC I have the choice of "Unmodified Original"(HEIC) which is...