Rename Iphoto Library Mac

Moving your Photo library is a great way to save storage space on your Mac. And changing its location can help you keep your files organized the way you like. Whatever your reason for transferring your photo library, hopefully, after reading this article, you’ve seen just how easy it is to do so. To get to the Photos Repair Library tool on your Mac, follow these steps: If Photos is open, close the app. Then, while you click to open Photos, hold down the Command and Option keys at the same time. OK, then that should work. Make a folder called 'iPhoto Library' (in fact, call it whatever you want - it will be your new iPhoto Library folder) and put it wherever you want to. Then ctrl+click it and choose 'Make Alias.' Move the alias to /Pictures and rename it 'iPhoto Library.' The newer iMac doesn't have any photos on it as we've never downloaded from cameras or synced iPhones with it yet. If you have a permissions issue with your library, you might be able to resolve the issue by using the Photos library repair tool. If the volume isn't formatted APFS or Mac OS Extended (Journaled), or has been used for Time Machine backups but hasn't been erased, this checkbox will either not be present, or won't be selectable after unlocking.

Photos in your System Photo Library are available in apps like iMovie, Pages, and Keynote. You can also sync them to iOS devices and view them on Apple TV. And if you want to use your own images as your desktop picture or screen saver, the images need to be in your System Photo Library before you can select them in System Preferences.

If you have only one photo library, then it's the System Photo Library. Otherwise, the first photo library that you create or open in Photos will become the System Photo Library. If you have more than one library, you might need to designate a System Photo Library, so other apps can access the photos and videos you want them to use.

Follow these steps to designate a System Photo Library:

Quit Photos.
Hold down the Option key and open Photos. One of the photo libraries is already designated as YourLibraryName (System Photo Library).
Choose the library you want to designate as the System Photo Library.
After Photos opens the library, choose Photos > Preferences from the menu bar.
Click the General tab.
Click the Use as System Photo Library button.

If you open a second or different library in the Photos app, and you haven't designated it as the System Photo Library, other applications will use photos from the original System Photo Library. Hold down the Option key when you open Photos to see which library is set as the System Photo Library.

iCloud and the System Photo Library

You can use iCloud Photos, Shared Albums, and My Photo Stream only with the System Photo Library. If you choose a different library in Photos without designating it as the System Photo Library, the iCloud tab in Photos preferences is disabled:

If you designate a new library as the System Photo Library and then turn on iCloud Photos, the photos and videos in the new library will merge with those already in your iCloud Photos. If you want to keep the contents of your photo libraries separate, don’t turn on iCloud Photos for more than one library in Photos.

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can't rename files[edit]

All those features but it can't rename files.. Ojw 15:48, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

iPhoto name was brought from Ulead's iPhoto Express and iPhoto Plus[edit]

I've been doing some research and it turns out that the iPhoto name was brought from Ulead. Anyone care to put up the history about this. Uleads iPhoto is now the ever popular Photo Impact after the Apple buyout. --Shrimpcrackers 08:23, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Macs are easy, silly[edit]

Sure it can. It can rename the file name itself ('dumbname_001.jpg'), or you can give it a title that will be used within iPhoto. To rename the file itself, just click the image, click the 'info' button in the bottom left, and make the necessary adjustment. Of course, the file name is largely irrelevant in iPhoto. Title, keyword, date, and other meta-data i

Rename Iphoto Library Mac