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PowerPhotos Help

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
    1. Installation
    2. System Requirements
    3. Registering PowerPhotos
    4. About Photos libraries
    5. Moving from iPhoto Library Manager to PowerPhotos
  2. Managing Photos libraries
    1. Creating a new library
    2. Adding an existing library
    3. Removing a library
    4. Duplicating a library
    5. Moving a library
    6. Renaming a library
    7. Accessing a Photos library on another Mac
  3. Using your Photos libraries
    1. Opening a library
    2. About the System Photo Library
    3. Using iCloud Photos with PowerPhotos
    4. Using a digital camera with multiple libraries
    5. Storing libraries on cloud services such as Dropbox or iCloud Drive
  4. Browsing your Photos libraries
    1. Grid view
    2. List view
    3. Viewing full size photos
    4. The information pane
    5. Searching for photos
    6. Multi-library search
    7. Creating an album of photos
    8. Deleting photos
  5. Finding duplicate photos
    1. Find Duplicates overview
    2. Starting a duplicate search
    3. Duplicate comparison options
    4. Browsing your duplicates
    5. Choosing keepers with duplicate rules
    6. Criteria details
    7. Choosing keepers manually
    8. Deleting your duplicate photos
    9. Duplicate tips and tricks
  6. Copying between Photos libraries
    1. Copying albums
    2. Copying individual photos
    3. Importing new photos into a library
    4. Merging libraries
    5. Previewing your copying
    6. Handling duplicates when copying
    7. Copying limitations
    8. Copying and merging with iCloud Photos
    9. Moving photos instead of copying
    10. Log files
  7. Migrating iPhoto and Aperture libraries
  8. Frequently asked questions
    1. Restoring photos from Time Machine
    2. Storing a library on an external drive
    3. Splitting a library into smaller libraries
    4. Creating a new library using photos not already in Photos
    5. Undoing photo deletions
    6. Sharing a library between multiple user accounts on one Mac
    7. Merging libraries from multiple Macs
    8. How to merge an iPhoto library with a Photos library
  9. Troubleshooting
    1. PowerPhotos not seeing all photos for a library
    2. Reduced library size after merging
    3. Incomplete merge due to Photos crashes or other errors
    4. Find Duplicates seems to be missing some duplicate photos
    5. Allowing PowerPhotos access to your Photos libraries
    6. PowerPhotos crashing or hanging at startup (safe mode)
    7. Find Duplicates showing photos that don't look the same
  10. Preferences
  11. Support
  12. Release Notes