As I said in my recent post with the apps I have on the OS X Dock, I use Adobe Photoshop Lightroom to organize / edit photos from my DSLR but I like the app Photos native to leave everything on the iPhone / iPad, thanks to the integration with iCloud.
When I upgraded my wife's Mac to OS X Yosemite 10.10.3, which came with Photos, I did some nonsense and ended up creating two separate libraries one with the thousands of photos she imported from iPhoto, the other with the Photo Library iCloud connected. My idea was just to deactivate it in the second library and reactivate it in the first, but the system unfortunately won't let it, and since then it has been alternating between the two libraries.
Until yesterday I discovered the PowerPhotos, from developer Fat Cat Software. Built on expertise obtained by it with the old iPhoto Library Manager, the perfect new utility to manage multiple Photos libraries without problems.
With it you can copy albums and photos (with all metadata) between libraries, browse and search for images, find duplicate photos (a feature that is really missing in Photos), migrate libraries from iPhoto / Aperture, among others.
But the resource that interests me most, to solve the wife's problem, the possibility of merging multiple Fotos libraries into one. And that PowerPhotos also does, including automatically eliminating duplicate files and showing, before running the process “for real”, how to get the final result. Fantastic!
PowerPhotos requires OS X El Capitan 10.11 or higher and can be tested for free (ZIP). A license from him (which also includes iPhoto Library Manager, breaks) costs $ 30. If Apple doesn't, luckily there are those who do.
(via Six Colors)
