I’m hoping at the very least once it’s done uploading everything it will have the albums up in iCloud and synced with my phone and iPadĭates can cause confusion. The other issue is that the photos are showing up in the timeline for today, even though the meta-data for the photo is intact and it even shows the years that the photos are from at the top of the albums so Apple knows that these are photos from years ago but for some reason it’s still Showing them under this month in the timeline in general. First it doesn’t seem like the albums are showing up on iCloud like when I view it through the web browser even though it is showing the new photos. Right now it is sinking all of that up to iCloud. That’s the part I missing.įor the time being I decided there are only about a dozen albums that I really really want to have so I just manually downloaded those and dragged them in to Apple photos into a manually made album. I have found tutorials about how to get all my photos from Google photos to Apple photos, but I haven’t found anything that will sync the albums so that I can have my same albums in Apple photos.

This is all in the cloud and I assume like Apple photos there’s no real folders just pointers etc. Thanks, apologies I think it was a bit unclear, I use Google photos currently and I have a number of albums there. If you have lots of photos you should read about how to use the settings in Photos for “optimized storage” on your Mac. So Apple Photos are not as old-fashioned photo folder structures where the actual photo file is in a particular folder. You can also create “smart folders” which organize photos based on “keywords” and rules. And you can delete a single “pointer” (looks like deleting the photo) without deleting other pointers or the actual photo. This pointer is then used to show you the actual photo from the database.īecause you really only create “pointers” you can make more pointers so a photo can show up in more than one folder. But what actually happens is that a “pointer” to the one and only version of the photo in the database is created. You can also make “regular folders” where you drag a photo into a folder. You can make more attributes yourself with “keywords”. Think of it as a database where the individual photos have a lot of attributes. All photos are located at the same place. But be aware that there is not really a traditional folder stucture in Apple Photos.

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