PowerPhotos 3.1.3 is out, with new copy/move menu items and automated library upgrading
I’m happy to announce the release of PowerPhotos 3.1.3, which includes a number of bug fixes, along with two new minor features I hope will help people out.
Copy To and Move To Menu Items
PowerPhotos has always let you copy or move photos and albums between libraries by dragging them from one library to another. While this works great once you know about it, it’s not always the most discoverable feature. Version 3.1.3 adds new “Copy To” and “Move To” items to the contextual menus when you control-click on albums or photos. These menu items provide the same functionality as drag and drop, but in a more visible and accessible way. Each menu item displays a submenu showing all the other libraries in your library list you can copy to, so you can easily select a library to copy/move your photos/album to. I’m hoping this will let more folks discover the copying and moving capabilities, as well as provide an options for those for whom drag and drop operations might be difficult.
Upgrading Multiple Libraries After macOS Updates
If you’ve ever upgraded macOS and found yourself with several photo libraries that all need to be upgraded to work with the new version of Photos, you know the tedious drill: open each library in Photos, wait for the upgrade to complete, quit Photos, open the next library, and repeat. PowerPhotos 3.1.3 aims to make this process much less painful.
When you select multiple libraries in PowerPhotos’ library list, it will now automatically detect which ones need upgrading and offer to upgrade them for you. PowerPhotos will provide a simple interface where you can choose which libraries to upgrade. Then with a single button click, PowerPhotos will open each library in Photos in turn, wait for the upgrade to complete, and then move on to the next one. You can sit back and let PowerPhotos handle the tedious work of opening and upgrading each library, saving you time after major macOS updates.
PowerPhotos 3.1.3 is a free update for all registered PowerPhotos 3 users. If you’re still using PowerPhotos 2, upgrades to version 3 are available for half price by entering your existing license key when you purchase at our online store. You can download the latest version for free from the PowerPhotos website to try it out.
Full Release Notes
- Added "Copy To" and "Move To" items to the contextual menus when control-clicking on albums or photos, as an alternative to dragging the albums/photos to copy/move them.
- PowerPhotos now helps you upgrade multiple libraries at once after upgrading macOS. Select multiple libraries in the library list, and PowerPhotos will offer to upgrade any that need upgrading.
- Fixed a crash that would occur if you tried to drag an "any/all" search term to become a child of itself.
- In separate library windows, the button to toggle the inspector pane no longer has an overlaid "Hide Inspector" label on macOS Tahoe.
- You can now drag libraries onto the Find Duplicates item in the library list to add them to the duplicate search
- Fixed an issue where sometimes, selecting one of the sort menu items would sort a separate library window that was not frontmost.
- Fixed a bug where right after copying an album to a newly created library, the new album would not appear in the album list.
- Reports generated after moving photos or albums instead of copying will now use the term "move" instead of "copy" where appropriate.
- Fixed a crash that could occur after deleting photos from a library when the keyword batch editor is visible.
- Moved the controls to add and reorder search terms to the left side of the window, to make it easier to see which controls are in which row.