Hey guys, I currently have Big Sur installed, but when I tried to downgrade to Catalina I couldn't transfer my Photos library. I get an error saying The library is from a newer version of Photos. How can I downgrade to an older version of MacOS while keeping my Photos library?
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Photos from Big Sur to Catalina
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export the BigSur (if they are in time machine) to your computer using iCloud (if they were stored on iCloud).
hopefully im not being captain obvious, if this wont work- search for a different version of "Photos" on catalina
i had to import Mojave photos to Mountain lion just this saturday as jpgs and that is what i did
hopefully im not being captain obvious, if this wont work- search for a different version of "Photos" on catalina
i had to import Mojave photos to Mountain lion just this saturday as jpgs and that is what i did
Open Photos.app in big sur, File -> Export... -> Export Unmodified Original... -> Export, then reimport all of the exported images in catalina's Photos.app