What will not be present is what I might term the sub-album - from example above - dogs, birthdays, views. The meta data will be there for each photo. The sample batch will now appear in Library (Monterey) or Photos (Catalina) - Apple changed the names, the concept is unchanged - they will also appear in Imports - still only stored once. ![]() Next logged in either as user test or the user with the larger number of photos, this time File / Import and highlight the small batch of photos. Specifically - select the photos - try a small batch first, which is where test user comes in handy - then go File / Export and select the external device. Then using a USB stick, NAS drive or attached storage, logged on as the original user, having worked out which block of photos is the smaller, then export these to one of the storage devices. This will enable you to experiment to give you hands on experience. Next, you can set up an additional user (user test in this example) on iMac in Settings/User & Groups - just remember to give them admin rights to make life easy. Those albums, IIUC, are unique to the user, while the metadata is unique to the individual photo. If there are 10 photos in dogs, 15 in birthday and 5 in landscapes - there are still only 20 photos, even if the total of the three albums contain 30 photos. Imagine taking twenty photos, inserting them into iPhotos from an iPhone and next creating three albums: dogs, birthday and landscapes. IPhotos stores each and every photo once - with what I think is being referred to here as metadata - date, time and if switched on, location. So iPhotos, Apple treats each user of an iMac as so to speak, unique, so photos don’t reside on a machine, they reside with the Mac user. It is different and each have their supporters, but once used, it is fairly straightforward to exist in the Mac universe. That makes no difference, my background for a very long time was MS, but I will assume a clean sheet.īest to avoid trying to get MS concepts or mindset to figure out Apple. ![]() I’m guessing from your original post, Mac is not familiar territory for you. ICloud does not need to feature - I only use for notes and calendar, not iPhotos. Incidentally one is on Monterey, the other on Catalina - I update when I see a need, not as of rote. I have a couple of iMacs and I have already tried the following suggestion. Hi Richard, long time apple user so I’ll attempt to answer this.
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