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Capture Photo from webcam on MacOS
i know there is similar question but it was like 8 years ago,
I need an application that will take a picture with my external web camera connected to a computer via USB. I can't find anything like ...
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Album selector media browser Mac hidden
While using the media browser to add photo's to indesign, I think I accidentally dragged the album selector underneath the toolbar of the finder. Now I can't change the photo album I want to select ...
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Photo Library Organization With Catalina
What happened Photos Library.photoslibrary/Masters after upgrading to Catalina? It appears to have been replaced with originals and reorganized by uuid or something that obliterates dates in the ...
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Within Photos, delete the RAW file from a "RAW+JPEG" linked pair?
I shoot using the RAW+JPEG capture option on my non-iPhone camera.
When I import these images via Photos for Mac, the RAW+JPEG files are added to my iCloud Photos Library as a linked pair. They are ...
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The year 2018 disappeared from the Photos application on a Macbook Air
For some unknown reason, the rather important year of 2018 disappeared from the Photos application on an Macbook Air with the latest macOS.
The owner insists that nothing was deleted as far as they ...
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How to display photo albums in iOS12.4 as a list rather than an array of thumbnails?
I dislike the array of thumbnails or large icons as a user interface. Is there a way to get my iPhone XR running iOS 12.4 to display my photo albums as a list?
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How to upload photo library (of photos not taken with this iPad) from iPad to iCloud or Google Photos
I have an old iPad that has about 8,000 photos on it, most of them not taken with this iPad, but rather synced from a Mac at a time when iPhoto on Mac was still a thing (before Photos.app and before ...
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Export original HEIC/HEVC files to iOS app
I am trying to transfer the original HEIC/HEVC encoded media files from the iOS app to another app (namely, Readdle's Documents app). I would like to do this without converting the files.
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Apple Photos: can I force it to treat 'burst' photos as separate items?
I like the 'burst' feature in my iPhone for taking photos in low light conditions: it increases the chance of there being at least one photo without motion blur.
However, Apple Photos insists on ...
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Change default browser based on location?
I use Chrome for work stuff and Safari for my personal stuff (each signed into my respective email). Is there a way to easily switch the default browser based on location? In the past I've used both ...
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Force Photos to update to iCloud on Mac
Is there some way to force Photos on Mac to sync with iCloud? Many times when I import pictures they do not get uploaded to iCloud. It's very flakey. I checked my iCloud storage space and I have ...
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After resetting iPhone, photos are not accesible via cable connection
I have a 16 GB iPhone 6 and as most of you might have experienced, after a certain point in its lifetime, that amount of space gets filled in a couple of weeks or months. Previously what I used to do ...
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New Apple ID and iCloud
I created a new Apple ID on my Mac mini, but the "photos" preference, when checked asks for a password to the old account.
I can’t see where to enter my new Apple ID.
Since I don't remember the old ...
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Is there a way to import just an album from iPhone to Apple Photos?
I have selected a few photos on my iPhone and placed them into a new album.
I want to import that album only, but in Photos it doesn't look like there is a way to import just a single album. From ...
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iPhone X (unlike my old iPhone 6s+) photos not synced to Win7
I use iCloud software for Windows 7 (with the latest update).
GOOD: My old iPhone 6s+ photos are all downloaded to iCloud PC app.
PROBLEM: New iPhoneX (iOS 12.0.1) pics do not sync (few thousand of ...
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MacBook Air 2017 Photos App Not Detecting Some Photos From iPad 5
I am trying to import videos from my iPad 5 (running iOS 12.0.1) to my 2017 MacBook Air (MacBookAir7,2 running macOS High Sierra 10.13.5) through the Photos app and half of my iPad's photos aren't ...
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Does Photos upload have builtin throttling?
I have Photos creating a shared album. It seems to upload five or six photos, wait ten to fifteen minutes, then upload some more.
Judging by web search results, this is new behavior (or limited to ...
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Extracting video from iPhone Zhiyun app gimble
As my username suggests I have an iPhone with 200gb of video on it.
I’ve been using the photos app on a MacBook Pro and a usb cable to iPhone to get the video off. I’m new to Mac, only just read ...
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Can I tell Photos to please stop auto-rotating my perfectly fine pictures?
Often, when I open the crop panel for a photo that I've just recently imported, Photos helpfully rotates it all wrong for me.
I think that it tried to make the shadows straight. This is Clippy-level ...
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iCloud Photo Library takes way less space than library on disk
I use iCloud Photo Library to sync my photos and videos between multiple devices (two Macs, iPhone, iPad). One of the Macs is set to keep all original files from the iCloud Photo Library. Everything ...
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Transferring and storing Photos Libraries via SMB on ZFS
I have a FreeNAS server, with an SMB share and "Windows" dataset. I am consolidating data, including Apple Photos libraries onto the FreeNAS server. However, as I copy the libraries off of the HFS+ ...
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iPhone 7 Live Photo - MOV file with different dates than JPEG
Does anyone know why the MOV files have a create date (several days to a week after) the create date of the associated JPEG file? This is extremely frustrating for someone who likes to organize ...
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Upgrading to Photos errors "Library Version Too Old" and "Your library can open. . . "
My iPhoto app, version 9.2.1, has a grey icon with a no sign and won't open. I'm running OSX 10.10.5, and I noticed a new app called Photos (version 1.0.1). When I try to open Photos, I am prompted ...
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Getting rid of the special photo albums on iOS, e.g., People
In the Photos app on my iOS devices, there is the "People" album in addition to the "People From My Mac" album. It seems silly to have both. How can I get rid of the former?
I'd also like to get rid ...
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Apple Photos App Stuck For Days "Closing the library..."
I recently migrated my library from iPhoto to the Apple Photos app. There's probably around 13,000 photos/videos in the library. After migrating the library, I closed Photos, and it is now been stuck "...
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Managed Photos Library - Can I use app to delete originals from hard drive?
I use Apple Photo to kickstart my workflow of reviewing and tagging photos. I do "manually manage" my pictures (i.e., what some call the "referenced option) vs. copying them to the Photos library file....
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Photos & Optimise Mac Storage
I always kept all the photos on my laptop. Now my space is getting low and I decided to switch to "Optimise Mac Storage"
How can I trigger the optimisation?
The disk is full
Filesystem Size ...
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Prevent Maps from changing modes of direction
I was riding my bicycle downtown today listening to music and directions from my phone through my headphones. Since I was riding my bike I wanted walking directions but any time I started picking up ...
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How can I get iCloud Photo Library to use less storage space on my iPad?
My iPad only has 16 GB of space, and I have iCloud Photo Library switch on but set to "Optimise iPad Storage". However, my iPad is now showing "0 bytes" available, and my Photo Library is taking up 2....
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OS X Photos show old photos as new
A couple of days ago I noticed that Photos on El Capitan shows already imported photos as new photos, when I select an iOS device. The iOS devices are synced with the Photos library and contain the ...
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I can't export shared photos from Photos. Why not?
This seems like it should be the most basic of functions.
I have some shared photos in Photos. They were taken by someone else and shared with me on iCloud. I can see them all on my Mac.
But I ...
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Does iPhoto hang on to images when Optimise Mac Storage setting is used in Photos.app?
Situation:
I've migrated from using iPhoto to Photos.app on the Mac.
I am using iCloud Photo Library
I have both a MacBook and an iPhone connected to the iCloud Photo Library
Both devices have the ...
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(icloud photo sharing) Two phones, two cameras... one unified place to upload?
all I want is for photos from my wife's iPhone and my iPhone to background upload to the same place?
My preference is to stay within Apple's ecosystem, but I will happily consider anything reliable....
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Optimize Phone Storage: Underlying logic?
I've trawled the web for info on iCloud Photo Library's "Optimize Phone Storage" option on iOS, but can't figure out the exact logic applied.
From Apple:
iCloud Photo Library will automatically ...
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Is iCloud Photo Library setting on OS X device-wide or per local Photo Library?
My wife has A TON of photos and I don't want all of them getting pushed to iCloud if I have iCloud Photo Library turned on. If I have a local System Library for current photos and an archive library ...
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automatically share photos to Photos iCloud Shared Albums
I'd like to script the Yosemite Photos app so that every time I place images to a folder on my desktop, it automatically is imported into the Photos app and uploaded to a shared album. Is this ...
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Photos app - moving pictures and re-associating
I have been organizing years of photos and photo albums into Apple's new Photos app. I recently picked up a new SSD to just handle my photo collection. I moved all of the photos to that drive. Now the ...
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Are there still working photo widgets?
Under previous Mac OS's there were widgets like "Modern Moments" and "Desk Photo" to display photos on the Dashboard. I tried them under Mac OS 10.10(.1) and they do not seem to be working. I'd like ...
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Photos are suddenly duplicated between iPhoto and Aperture; any methods to de-dupe?
I have a library for iPhoto and a separate library for Aperture.
A random sampling of hundreds of events (ex: "Jun 22, 2014") which consists of thousands of photos are suddenly appearing in Aperture....
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Recover photos from iPhone with broken screen?
My girlfriend recently dropped her iPhone 4S in water. She let it sit in rice for 2 days, but the screen was still broken. However, the phone was still functional, as she could hear Siri working with ...
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Reconnect Aperture masters with different filename?
I lost a lot of data and recovered the photos that I could using Stellar Phoenix. I got a lot of the photos back, however I'm struggling to reconnect them in Aperture.
If I select a single image, it ...
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in iPhoto, how to locate photos NOT in a particular photo stream?
I've noticed that if I add the same photo to a photo stream more than once, iPhoto is apparently not smart enough to recognize that it's a duplicate, and instead goes ahead and adds the photo a second ...
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How to see your frequent location history in iOS 7.0.2?
I have an iPhone 4s and I can't see my frequent location history where it is supposed to be. I can only see the "Frequent Locations" and "Improve Maps" toggles.
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What does "unsaved photos from Messages" mean?
When I try to favorite a collection that Photos on my iPhone recommends to me, I get a message saying that I have "unsaved photos from Messages which you need to save before continuing", and ...
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How to get Photos People album to populate?
How long should it take for photo people album to populate on new iPhone 13 pro? 5 days new, iOS 15.2 and pics have finished curation but no people have populated to the people folder in Photo app.
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How to move all photos from iPhone to iPad?
I would like to move all photos from iPhone 5s to iPad Pro 10.5. I want to move them, not copy or sync. Photos in result should be stored on iPad and deleted from iPhone.
I've read this article - ...
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Share link for a photo from icloud or photos app
There used to be a way to get a direct link to a photo in iCloud and share it.
I was surprised to see this still isn't possible from the photos app so i went to the iCloud website and i still can't ...
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Photos won't let me edit anything / Same problem on Sierra
So (my mom) is trying to edit photos in OS X El Capitan's Photos app and can't seem to do so, all the options are just greyed out. This is true of all the photos in the app.
I looked around online ...
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Does Google Photos Backup keep album structure?
Will the Google Photos Backup for OS X also back up the album structure from Photos.app? That is, will albums be available as collections on Google Photos after uploading?
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App to stream photos from my Network share to SmartTV via iPhone
I have photos on my network drive. I want to stream them to a SmartTV; something like:
On my iPhone
Open network share
Find folder with pics
Stream to DLNA/SmartTV
The only app I've found so far is ...
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