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Fully supported: photos and videos, keeping keywords, descriptions, titles, dates, favorites, locations, bursts, and Live Photos intact albums, folders, and moments. It will migrate the metadata (but not the faces) and the albums. You can easily browse libraries in turn and move photos and videos between libraries (not bursts). Merge the libraries with PowerPhotos 1.62 or newer: PowerPhotos is a tool to manage Photos Libraries.Photos 2.0 on Sierra can read the sidecar files on import - so exporting with XMP files will transfer the metadata to the new library.īut you will have to recreate the albums and smart albums as well. So there is no help for it but to export both, the originals and the edited versions, and to deal with the duplicates. Your metadata will be gone, unless you export the edited versions as JPEGS. On Yosemite or El Capitan - even if you export the originals with XMP sidecar files to preserve the IPTC metadata, the metadata from the sidecar file will not be applied to the originals when reimporting. You would have to export the edited versions and the originals separately and they would no longer be paired. ( Combine libraries in Photos - Apple Support) This is the most tedious way and only feasible for very small libraries. Merge the libraries by exporting the photos (edited versions and originals) from one library and reimporting them into the other library.Photos 1 and 2 cannot sync the named faces, but Photos 3 and 4 can sync them.

To sync the faces names with iCloud Photo Library, I apply keywords with the names of the persons to all photos in a people album.

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The download will be like to a different Mac, see: Use Photos and iCloud Photos on multiple Mac computers That is why I recommend to start with the smaller library. The merge will not include the Faces albums and projects from the first library you uploaded. The merged library will sync back to your larger Photos Library. This library will be merged into the library in iCloud too, creating a merged library in iCloud. Now enable the larger library as your iCloud Photo Library. Photos will merge the the library into the library that is already in iCloud.

Wait for all photos to upload that can take a very long time, a week ore more, depending on the size of the library.

To merge in iCloud enable the smaller of the two libraries as your iCloud Photo Library.

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My library with 40000 photos took a full week to upload.

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It is the best way to migrate libraries you invested much work into, but uploading large libraries to iCloud requires a paid subscription for more storage than the free 5GB - for at least a month, and it is slow. Photos will scan for duplicate original files while merging and resolve conflicts between duplicate originals. The searchable faces names will upload (only on Photos 1.5 or older, not on Photos 2.0), but not the faces thumbnails and albums. All edited images will be paired with their originals, so you can undo the edits and revert to the original. Your albums and folders will migrate, keywords, titles, and other metadata.

Merge the libraries in iCloud by uploading them to the same iCloud Photo Library: Merging in iCloud is the only way to preserve the master-version pairs, so you can revert edited photos to the original versions.

Make backup copies of the libraries before you try that.

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If you are planning to migrate your photo libraries from Aperture or iPhoto to Photos and own Aperture 3.6, merge your libraries in Aperture before the migration while you still can use Aperture as described here:Īperture 3.3: How to use Aperture to merge iPhoto libraries (wayback machine) Photos 2.0 or older will not sync the faces with iCloud.

There is no lossless merging of Photos Libraries other than iCloud Photo Library, and even the merging in iCloud will not include the print products. There is currently no completely lossless way to merge Photos Libraries, because Photos does not support importing one Photos Library into another library. (this applies to Photos 5.0 on Catalina as well) Written for Photos 4.0 on macOS 10.14.4 or older: The products (books, cards, calendars, slideshows) should be migrated.All metadata, including the faces labels should be migrated.The library structure with albums, smart albums should be preserved in the merged library.The original photos and the edited versions should be merged into the merged library as master-version pairs, so it will be possible to revert edited photos to the original.When merging two photo libraries we usually want a lossless merge: