How To Create A New Mac Photo Library and Repair Your Existing Library

How To Create A New Mac Photo Library and Repair Your Existing Library. So this is kind of 2 little training videos put together. The first part is showing you how to create a new photo library. This can be really useful for anyone that wants to be able to separate your photos and videos. We also do a quick show of where the photo libraries usually live. This is the file that contains all your photos and can be located just about anywhere. The second part of the video is for those that may want to attempt to repair their photo library. This is a very useful feature if your photo library fails to open or if it is just not working the way it usually works. Hopefully, the video is useful.
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[@gregtoope]

Our first little Mac Photos training vid. We will definitely have more to come as we get into the Photos App on Mac. Let us know your questions so that we can try and answer them in a future Photos training video! Please ✅ Subscribe ✅& hit the 🔔 Notification Bell 🔔 if you're new to the channel, for more Tech Videos, Vlogs and Motorcycle related episodes coming in the next few days! Make sure to comment as well as we love hearing from you! Please make sure that your comments follow the KZbin guidelines. All comments that are abusive or portray bullying will be immediately sent to KZbin and removed from our channel.

[@floydthorne6444]

Thank you. I, for what ever reason, lost my Photos Library. I looked online and seen the "Option Command Repair" sequence and I tried to "Repair" but, my MacBook Air must have been in La La Land somewhere because it did not seem to do anything. Aftew seeing this video and doing the "Option - Photos I seen that for some unknown reason to me that there were two Libraries showing. I clicked on the other one and WALA, my Library was restored. Then for kicks, after shutting Photos down I tried the '"Option-Photos" again and ONLY one Library was showing, as it should have been. I am now a Happy Camper, thank you.

[@Dragonsongbird]

Thank you! This was SO helpful!!!!

[@Cocobean40]

Thank you so much for the clear well explained tutorial!! You saved me been trying to fix/figure this out for years!!!!

[@hogynmon]

These sessions are really helpful, thanks so much 👍👍

[@gregtoope]

You are most welcome. Let us know if there is anything that you would like to know. We are always taking notes!

[@davemccorquodale5148]

Very Helpful Greg...thank you!

[@gregtoope]

Very welcome!

[@millerliftin365]

Great video Greg!

[@JosephSanil]

Thank You ❤️

[@iamtheplayer3818]

Thanks for the video.

[@gregtoope]

Most welcome! 🙏

[@peterhitchcock3486]

Cool presentation!!!

[@gregtoope]

Thank you!

[@Princess.mimi.11]

Wowwww so helpful didn't know we could do thatttt

[@ritamustikasari]

I like your video. Thank you. I read the comments too and learn something. Regards from Indonesia.

[@gregtoope]

Thanks for watching. We hope to do more vids like this soon.

[@davidjohn9006]

Helpful. Thanks

[@gregtoope]

No worries!

[@justanotherviewer52]

Thanks for the Mac training session.

[@gregtoope]

Most welcome. If you ever use a mac you'll know so much more than most first time users!

[@justanotherviewer52]

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[@gregtoope]

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[@jschannel5563]

yes. work. thats exactly why i want a second library. nothing else

[@tandrejones747]

You are a life saver because i accidentally created a library and couldn't find my old one for weeks… dont even know how i did that

[@gregtoope]

Glad you figured it out. 👍🏻

[@TheHeraldOfChange]

I found this really interesting, thanks. One question, although I've already bit the bullet, will Repair solve issues with the Photos Import New Dialogue and ghost pictures that refuse to import? (Images that multiply like lemmings and refuse to be removed from the Import New dialogue.)

[@magnificentGS]

Hi, As you told I have been using an external since I bought M1 Mac Book. But something happened after the last update of the Mac Book and now I can not open my photo library on my external even I can not create a new library. Do you have an opinion? İs there a problem with the last macOS?

[@robertnowak1119]

Hi. I have got very old Mac mini (2011) and relatively new Macbook Air. I noticed that Mac mini with old osx (do not remember name) is not able to open photolibrary created on Macbook Air (too old Apple Photos version). It is very risky to archive photos only in photos library. What do you think?

[@johnsmetzer4030]

Can the library on a Mac be moved to a external SSD that is formatted as ExFat without an issues? Or should it be formatted with an Apple format

[@XeReXSniping]

Hi Greg Trying to resolve a Photos issue on a friend’s new M1 iMac that he recently purchased. We imported his old Photos library from his intel iMac through migration. All went fine with that. You can view, open and manipulate the photos from the new library on the M1 iMac however we are unable to import new photos from his Canon 5G Mark 4. An error appears explaining that photos is unable to read file format (not worded exactly that way but something to that effect). I’m thinking that it could be a few things due to his set up but I’m only guessing. Here are a few other variables that I am suspecting may be impacting the problem. His library is on an external SSD drive. Do you think if I reformat the external drive to “extended journaled” that this would help? Also he is connecting his camera to the M1 iMac with the standard USB cable that came with the camera. It is connected to an apple USB to USB C adapter which is in turn plugged into one of the USB C sockets on the iMac. (We also tried plugging into the thunderbolt socket too. Doing that did not change anything). We also tried accessing a copy of the library that was on the M1 iMac and the same issue occurs. Any ideas? Your help would be very much appreciated. Thanks!

[@LeeAnnBone2]

Hey Greg, question for you. I am having issues with my photo library. I click to open, it does not open. I created a new library, as you suggested, and it opened. I then followed what you had to say about repairing and it did not do anything, did not open. I keep getting these messages, "The Library could not be opened. Photos was unable to open the library "photos library." (4302) I even watched your other video about going into the photos library, clicking show package content, and clicking on the originals folder, but I do not have a originals folder. Only attachments, Masks, Masters, Plugins, Private & Resources. Is there something I am missing, something I can do on my mac, or am I out of luck for getting photos opened? Thank you in advance! Love your videos.

[@jkered]

What do you recommend to clean up iphone?

[@drew_lopes]

This is great info. I save my photos on iCloud, how does this work with my other devices if I have multiple files. Also if I upgrade my device will iCloud restore multiple photo files?

[@gregtoope]

Ill try and do a Photos in the Cloud video soon. See if I can answer those for you.

[@norajohnston1763]

The option key hold then press of photos library did not work for me. Did it change with updates?

[@Lorenzzz17]

Can you please explain how to reorganize a library? I put files in it but the order e the data are completely wrong

[@anachavez5230]

you literally save me I was crying and throwing up

[@chrisrjcox]

How best to move from an existing iCloud Photo Library which is now too big 70,000 files and start a new one and also work with my iPhone?

[@Amanda-ib8vi]

Ok, I have a photo library that I made many years ago (because my computer was full, so I made one and put it on an external hard drive). NOW, I am unable to open it on my computer now. I did the repair idea that you mentioned in this video and it still won't open. any ideas.

[@hebashunbo2934]

I have a question.. i transferred my photo library onto a hard drive after years of putting it off, but i had no more space on my computer to even upgrade my macbook. i hate using icloud, nor hard drives, so anyways i transferred it off my computer. I felt a huge load off, no pun intended :))) but now i wanted to finally transfer the thousands of photos i have on my iPhone onto photo library and then onto the hard drive, because I love the way Photo library organizes it. But when I connected my iPhone and tried to import photos it says it can't find the Photo library, it's been moved to external hard drive. What do I do now?? does this make sense? fyi, love your video, i learnt a few things, i know nothing about computers! :(

[@media6969]

Did you figure it out?

[@superpoodlehead]

I use my iPhone for street photography and am *not* on my Macbook Pro a lot. How to switch photo libraries from my iPhone?

[@wilcid4912]

How do I move photos in a library that doesn’t link to iCloud into a photos library so i can share them via the cloud

[@rebukey]

I got a new Mac and so had to switch my iPhoto library to the Photos app. I have thousands of pictures. I migrated my pictures in one swoop. Most of the information and pictures transferred, but as I'm going through my pictures in the Photos app I've noticed that not all the faces transferred and some pictures didn't transfer. I am also having an issue with the "people" thing in Photos, but that is a problem for a different day. I'm trying to think of something I can do to make sure all my info and pictures transfer without having to go through each picture one by one which would take months probably. Do you think I could create a new iPhotos library with one event or album at a time from the main library then transfer that over to my new Mac and the Photos app? Would that work?

[@robb7565]

just got a new M1 can't open photos either after update. curious if u had a fix and could explain as if I were a 2 year old LOL

[@jdot7644]

When I go to open my iPhotos library (its on an external). I get this message "Photos was unable to open the library “Photos Library 2.photoslibrary”. (5416)". I tried the repair method, it didn't work. So I should create a new iPhotos library and then drag and dump the "originals" folder from the corrupted one to the new library. That should import all the photos from the corrupted library into the new one right?

[@gregtoope]

Totally correct. Just make sure you have space for the two libraries while they are moving.

[@jdot7644]

@@gregtoope Thank you so much.

[@wilcid4912]

How to allow photo sharing on macbook pro

[@TylerPKegger]

My photos library is over 600 gigs big with over 80,000 photos and my photos app is stuck on “updating” and won’t do anything after that, and I’m using iCloud with my photos library as an extra back up for my iCloud photos.

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[@gregtoope]

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[@karunald]

No one every tells how to split the library and move photos out of main system library to new library and delete them from system.

[@jennifermarquez8974]

Help! My photo app on my 2013 mac pro glitched. I restarted it and now it pops up the choose a library start a new one thing. However when i click existing library it wont let me open it. The open button just flashes.

[@gustavobandeira1]

Actually now on Monterey you can merge Photo Libraries

[@tjongshienlalongkumer7479]

Where does he go to find those filters ohhh when he say “ if I come here “

[@anaosoriocamargo5969]

Actually, you can merge different libraries and keep the order or their albums 😀

[@gregtoope]

How? Apples actual support article says it cant be done. Here is their way of getting photos from one library to another ... "Combine libraries in Photos Use these steps on your Mac to combine photos and videos from separate Photos libraries into one library. To combine Photos libraries, open the source library and export the photos and videos that you want to keep. Then open the destination library (the one that you want to use as your main library) and import the photos and videos."

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[@gregtoope]

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