By default, raw+jpg files are treated as “JPEG” by the UI and are thus indistinguishable from plain jpg files from the same camera except for a little stacked “J” icon in the upper right corner. Let’s play “spot the raw+jpg”! Those little “J” and “R” boxes are the only reliable way to find raw+jpg files in Apple Photos, since Smart Folders only finds raw files if you edit them and manually select “Usr RAW as Original”Īlthough Photos does a nice job of keeping these paired photos together, it entirely drops the ball when dealing with them in the UI. Photos treats raw+jpg images as a single entity but only accounts for the primary or “Original” source.
Note that both the jpeg and raw files are stored together in the same directory. If you import a raw+jpg image from a camera (in my case, my Leica Q uses “.dng” files for raw), it will be stored similarly, perhaps called “Masters/2017/0710-17385/L123521.JPG” and “Masters/2017/0710-17385/L123521.dng”. For example, if you take photo with your iPhone on July 10, 2017, it might be called “Masters/2017/0710-12304/IMG_2356.JPG”. Inside the library, all photos are stored in Masters/year/month/day/event/file. A macOS bundle is actually just a regular folder marked so as to be treated like a single unit in Finder. By default this lives in your Pictures folder and is called “Photos Library.photoslibrary”, though macOS hides the extension so it just looks like “Photos Library” in Finder. In macOS, Photos stores all images in a bundle. Still, Photos is pretty terrible when it comes to dealing with raw images. It’s just plain useful to have all of my photos stored together and seamlessly synced to the cloud. And there’s no way to “divorce” raw files to remove them from the library (and iCloud)! How Photos Stores Raw FilesĪlthough I don’t love the slim editing features in Photos, I’m still using it because of the excellent integration between iOS, macOS, and iCloud. Apple Photos can only detect raw files if they’re (manually) set to be “Original”. Hopefully Apple will do better in future releases. I have developed a workflow to remove raw images from Apple Photos and iCloud and thought I’d share it. But even though Photos can process and store raw images, it is severely lacking in terms of library management: Smart folders don’t properly recognize them and there’s no easy way to remove them from your library so these huge files can seriously clog up your iCloud account. To do this, quit Photos, then re-launch it while holding the Option key, which will allow you to choose any Photos, Aperture or iPhoto library on your system.Apple Photos isn’t the best application to manage a large digital photo library, but the integration with iCloud, iOS, and macOS is extremely useful. When you're ready to merge, open your Aperture library in Photos.If it's just always on, then the library will be ready whenever you are.
Technically you could certainly only turn this on when you'r ready to merge, but you'll have to wait for your entire library to upload before you can proceed. This is what you're doing today, so you can start to get familiar with Photos. Ensure that iCloud Photo Library is enabled, as this will be the key to making this work later.
Create a new (or migrate any Aperture) library in Photos.
There's no “merge” function (just like there wasn't in iPhoto), but there is a way to make this work.Įssentially, if your library is synced to iCloud, you can use iCloud to do the merge.
#Fatcat iphoto library manager full
If you're playing with Photos today but not ready to commit to it full time, maintaining a separate Aperture or iPhoto library (or libraries), you may be wondering how you will ultimately merge your old Aperture and new Photos libraries together, should you want to do that in the future.
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