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  1. S

    iPod Recovering iPod Nano 3rd Gen photos

    My girlfriend has an old Apple iPod Nano 3rd Gen 8 GB that she bought a long time ago full of music and over 1400 photos. The musics are still there, they play fine, it even show videoclips. However, all the pictures show as black blocks. The memory usage inside [ About ] confirms there's quite...
  2. kringlelikechris

    iPhone Camera Roll has over 70,000 pics/vids synced from Photos app. How do I remove them?

    My iPhone Camera Roll has over 70,000 pics/vids that were somehow synced from my Photos app. Mind you this phone is only 64GB. Hell no it can fit all those files in there. I don't know how or why it took all my pics and vids from my Photos app from my iMac, but it definitely slows down my phone...
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    Photos.app Unsupported RAW Storage

    I'm considering buying a Canon DSLR camera that doesn't yet have RAW support in macOS. I have a few questions. I have a Mac that doesn't support Sierra and so is stuck on El Capitan. Is there any chance Apple releases RAW support updates for El Capitan at this point? I also have a Mac with...
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    macOS Program Keystrokes for Photos Editing

    Hello - I edit lots and lots of photos. I use several editing features in mac Photos all the time, such as adding a face, removing red eye, etc. I would like to create three different programs: 1) If the face isn't recognized, create the face frame. Currently one needs to use the mouse to...
  5. H

    Photos App - ´Edit with question` (Lightroom, C1 etc.)

    Hi, I hope some beta users can help me. The Photos app in High Sierra has a new "edit with" feature, to edit a photo in an external app and automatically save the edits back into photos. In all the reviews about this feature, they only mentioned apps like Photoshop, Pixelmator or Affinity. But...
  6. Sorinut

    Re-upload iCloud Photo Library?

    Something happened to my iCloud Photo Library and it lost all my albums and folders. I was able to restore a recent copy from backup, but I enable iCloud photos on it, it wipes all the folders and albums again. I tried deleting the library in iCloud with the intention of re-uploading it, but...
  7. E

    Delete old photos in an avatar cache?

    When I was in iTunes, I accidentally clicked on the playlist icon (just a default musical note) for a given playlist. It pulled up a list of options for choosing a photo. The default category that popped up was 'recents' and includes a bunch of old photos that I want desperately to delete, and...
  8. cyberblood

    Alternative of Photos?

    Hi everybody, Many of you would answer fast, but in the reality the answer is not so simple. I need a good alternative of Photos for macOS. What I need is: - nice preview of the pictures - App that will associate with all picture's extension .jpg .png .gif ... and will run when click on picture...
  9. jefferis

    New Photos, a replacement for Lightroom?

    Has anyone tested the new Photos app? I'd like to stop paying Adobe for Photoshop and Lightroom. Want to know if the new version of Photos is suitable for a replacement for Lightroom (I have Affinity Photo). Was disappointed when Aperture got dropped and Photos replaced iPhotos.... just...
  10. J

    Photo downloading issue

    so I’ve had this issue in iOS 11 beta 3 and beta 4 . When I send a non iPhone user a photo it shows fine , they receive it and everything but when I come back to it later it just shows a “downloading” image that says it’s already downloaded but never goes away . Singing out of Apple ID only...
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    iOs 10 photos keep saying 'Uploading 100,000' items....

    I have a LOT of photos in my iCloud account...Over 100,000 actually (it is a combination of photos i took with my iPhone and ones that I took with my actual camera)....However, lately it keeps saying that it is 'Uploading 100,000' photos...then over the course of the day...the number it is says...
  12. jp_noli

    Issues with time stamp on videos in Photos

    I have these family pictures taken on an old digital camera. The time on the camera was wrong at the moments of capture. For example, if the pictures were taken on June 11, 2012, but the time on the camera said Jan 1, 2009, then the picture will be time stamped as Jan 1, 2009. After importing...
  13. Strawberry Watch

    iPhone contact photos not syncing with other devices?

    Hi I am using Sync.Me on iPhone to sync stubborn photos from FB to my contacts. However on my iPad and Macbook I do not see some of my contacts photos. Is there a trick to Apple's contact sync?
  14. TDF

    Backup Archive / CrashPlan / Carbonite?

    Hey all, I am a musician and content creator with years of video, photo and music content. Some of my Photos Libraries are as big as 450GB and I have multiple others that are around 200GB. I am looking to add a cloud based storage incase I do get a lightning strike or power surge or...
  15. trumpetmercenary

    Can't share any photos once they've been added to iCloud!

    Once a photo makes it into iCloud, I'm doomed. No matter what button under 'share' I choose, I get this error: And from 'messages' when I try to send a photo from the photo reel, nothing happens. Photos are in iCloud are indicated there with little cloud icons. Happened sometimes before...
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    Migrating iPhoto library (MBP Late 2008, Mavericks) to Photos library (iMac 2017, Sierra)

    I finally replaced my old MacBook Pro Late 2008 with a 5K iMac 2017. I had added additional RAM and replaced the HDD with a 1 TB Samsung Evo 840 SSD. But, actually, I was not using the old MBP very often in the last two years. I decided to start the new iMac with its clean pre-installed MacOS...
  17. G

    Apple Photos - Sharing On Facebook

    Hello Has anyone worked out how to do this please? When you share your photos on Facebook from Apple Photos on Macbook, that it takes the data from the photo for Facebook (Description for Caption, Location, Date & Time) iPhoto used to do this - as did Picassa Many Thanks Gavin
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    Can save to folder, can't access that folder

    So I dislike using iPhoto and because of that I started a separate folder for when I cleared photos off my phone using Image Capture. When I open Image Capture it's still set to save images to that location, and will do so when I plug my phone in. However, I cannot access that folder any more. I...
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    Photos trying to re upload entire iCloud photo library. Please help!

    Hi all, I recently noticed that Photos (the macOS app) had been stuck on 'Uploading 499 Items' for a few days. Following advice I found on various forums, I unchecked and rechecked the 'iCloud Photos Library' box in Photos preferences. I thought it would resume uploading the same 499 items, but...
  20. Statusnone88

    Photos App Constantly Downloading Originals

    iPhone 7 on iOS 11 b3 constantly downloading 102 originals. Did a fill factory restore, restored from an encrypted iTunes backup, same thing. Anyone have a similar issue? If so, how’d you get it fixed? Also, I have “most compatible” turned on in the photos settings instead of high efficiency...