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If not, we’re always looking for new problems to solve! Email yours to including screen captures as appropriate, and whether you want your full name used. We’ve compiled a list of the questions we get asked most frequently along with answers and links to columns: read our super FAQ to see if your question is covered. On performing a similar examination a few years ago, I found that I had gigabytes of videos that I either didn’t need anymore or that I could rely on having a single copy in Photos, and was able to reduce an iPhoto library tremendously. One strategy might be to move the Photos library to another drive, and then review in iPhoto what images and movies you really need to keep in the older format versus the newer. Unless he’s been importing a lot of new material into Photos, the overlap of identical material between Photos and iPhoto is fairly close, and copying might only reduce the combined total by 10 or 20 percent.

The Photos app will then upload the new library's photos to iCloud Photo Library, merging them with the photos that are already there from your first System Photo Library.įor more, join us on our tour as we explore Photos for Mac.But this copying doesn’t solve the lack of storage on Josh’s main drive. If you want to get all of your photos and videos in iCloud, however, you can designate another library as your System Photo Library and then enable iCloud Photo Library.

That is, your secondary libraries will not upload photos to iCloud to share across your iOS devices and OS X machines. If you are using iCloud Photo Library with the Photos app, it will work only with the System Photo Library. If you decide at some point you'd like to pick a different photo library as your default library for Photos, you can do so by going to the General tab of Preferences and click the button Use as System Photo Library. You can't merge libraries using Photos you can only view them separately. It will open a dialogue window before opening Photos, asking you to Choose Library or Create New. To choose a different library than the library you last opened, hold down the Option key when launching Photos. You might logically conclude that Photos always opens the System Photo Library unless otherwise instructed, but the app instead opens the Last Opened library. This becomes your default library, or the System Photo Library in Apple's parlance. When you first set up Photos for Mac, it asks you to choose a library. If you have divided a large photo library into small, more manageable libraries, Photos for Mac makes it easy to work multiple libraries. A large library like mine, however, can still be a drag on the Photos app, slowing down performance to the point where a quick edit in theory becomes frustratingly laborious in practice. In my experience so far, Photos for Mac feels snappier than the sluggish iPhoto that preceded it.