Multiple photo libraries

[tkowalski]

How do I merge multiple photo libraries? iPhoto vs photo library, what’s the difference

? Why do I have multiple? Is there a good tool to deal with duplicates? Trying to clean up!

 

[glenthompson]

Don't know how you got multiple libraries but Power Photos from Fatcat Software will merge them for you as well as take care of other maintenance tasks. Just got it to clean up my wife's photos so no experience yet.

 

[Deanna Z]

iPhoto is the old Apple photo management program, it was replaced by Photos in 2014-15. Normally, you would have one iPhoto and one Photos library, but you have multiple. Were some of these created inadvertently and are empty or duplicate? Check the relative sizes of the 6 Photos and 2 iPhoto libraries. If any of these are nil, delete them. Then open the smaller iPhoto library and check whether the photos contained in it are also there in the larger iPhoto library. If yes, delete the smaller one. If they are different, combine the two iPhoto libraries. Repeat with Photos libraries, starting with the smallest and comparing it with the Photos library that you normally use. Once you are left with only one iPhoto and one Photos library, you can migrate and merge the former into the latter. Do the duplicate identification and removal as the last step - there are apps for it.

 

[tkowalski]

iPhoto is the old Apple photo management program, it was replaced by Photos in 2014-15. Normally, you would have one iPhoto and one Photos library, but you have multiple. Were some of these created inadvertently and are empty or duplicate? Check the relative sizes of the 6 Photos and 2 iPhoto libraries. If any of these are nil, delete them. Then open the smaller iPhoto library and check whether the photos contained in it are also there in the larger iPhoto library. If yes, delete the smaller one. If they are different, combine the two iPhoto libraries. Repeat with Photos libraries, starting with the smallest and comparing it with the Photos library that you normally use. Once you are left with only one iPhoto and one Photos library, you can migrate and merge the former into the latter. Do the duplicate identification and removal as the last step - there are apps for it.

Thanks. I will try this