Help to merge libraries, please.

[Freida]

Hello everyone,

I'm still on Mojave and I think I'll upgrade to Big Sur this weekend. The only thing that I'm worried about is my Aperture library.
I don't have that much there but basically all I want to do is take all photos I have and merge them in Photos app (or export them or something like that so I have one unified place (Photos) that has everything in it.

What is the easiest and tidiest way, please?

Thank you

 

[r.harris1]

Does this help? I migrated to Photos back in 2015 or whenever they announced Aperture was going away and it was a similar process. There are a few challenges but it may be reasonable in your use case.

Migrate your Aperture library to the Photos app or Adobe Lightroom Classic - Apple Support

Aperture won't run in versions of macOS after macOS Mojave. Here's how to move your Aperture libraries to Photos or Adobe Lightroom Classic.

support.apple.com

 

[Freida]

Yes, thank you. I've done all that. My problem now is that I've imported everything from Aperture and iPhoto but as a result I have about 4 extra libraries that I don't know how to merge. Is there a way to merge Photos libraries to one?

So far I haven't found an answer

Does this help? I migrated to Photos back in 2015 or whenever they announced Aperture was going away and it was a similar process. There are a few challenges but it may be reasonable in your use case.

Migrate your Aperture library to the Photos app or Adobe Lightroom Classic - Apple Support

Aperture won't run in versions of macOS after macOS Mojave. Here's how to move your Aperture libraries to Photos or Adobe Lightroom Classic.

support.apple.com

 

[jz0309]

Yes, thank you. I've done all that. My problem now is that I've imported everything from Aperture and iPhoto but as a result I have about 4 extra libraries that I don't know how to merge. Is there a way to merge Photos libraries to one?

So far I haven't found an answer

this?

Import photos from another library in Photos on Mac - Apple Support

If you organize your collections of photos into individual libraries, you can import photos from one library into another.

support.apple.com

 

[Freida]

Yeah, I saw that one. I was hoping for something better rather than manual reexport
If I don't find anything then I guess I will have to do this
Thank you

this?

Import photos from another library in Photos on Mac - Apple Support

If you organize your collections of photos into individual libraries, you can import photos from one library into another.

support.apple.com

 

[jz0309]

Yeah, I saw that one. I was hoping for something better rather than manual reexport
If I don't find anything then I guess I will have to do this
Thank you

I don’t use Photos so have no other suggestions.
I was an Aperture user but switched to Lightroom 2 or so years ago when my aperture database crashed and restore attempts failed.
The key lesson from that experience is that I will never ever store photos on any applications database. I have my photos now in a simple folder structure (mainly year/month) and the Lightroom indes let’s me browse thru all 75k or so photos really fast… I did look at photos back then but it just wasn’t what I was looking for, but obviously it works for many people…