How do I update a 2021 iMac running Monterey 12.0.1 from Photos Version 7.0 to whatever the latest version is? I try doing System Updates, but Photos doesn't go to a newer version. I think the Photos version that was on the previous very old iMac ported over and I can't get it to update. Please help. Thanks.
Upon further review, Photos on the new iMac is up to date at Version 7. Another Mac user tried to send two shared albums on Photos, but when we click on the notice to subscribe, we get the following message:
This line in the warning message is a bit misleading and naming very old versions from 2012, the first system version OSX Mountain Lion and the first applications to support shared albums at all: "A Mac with macOS 10.8.2 or later and iPhoto 9.4 or Aperture 3.4 or later". Aperture and iPhoto are no longer developed by Apple. You can neither run a full version of iPhoto nor Aperture any longer on a Mac with macOS 12 Monterey.
You may not be able to enable "Shared Albums" in the Photos Preferences > iCloud, if your current Photos Library is not your System Photos Library and is stored on an unsupported volume. Where are you keeping your Photos Library? It should be in your Pictures folder or on an external volume prepared like this:
We signed into iCloud as noted above, in both locations. It appears that the Photos Library is in the right spot, see below, but we still can't get the Shared Album subscription to turn on (same "error" message). Any other guidance?
You may have an outdated link to an older version of Photos in the Dock or on your Desktop. To launch the current version installed by the system, open the Applications folder, then double click the Photos icon in Applications. Can Photos launch this way?
I have photos from an old Mac desktop that I recently put on a hard drive and tried opening on a new MacBook. It says I cannot open the photos because the photos are from version Photos5.0 which is not supported by my new MacBook. I was unable to update to a newer photos version on the desktop because it is so slow from previous software updates due to being too old of a model to support the updates. How can I access these photos?
Photos 5 is the version coming with macOS 10.15 Catalina. Any Mac with macOS 10.15 Catalina installed or a newer system version should be able to open a Photos Library from macOS 10.15 Catalina, but not a Mac with macOS 10.14 Mojave or older.
I expect a new Mac to have a newer system version than Catalina, unless you purchased some older model. Make sure, you launch the Photos.app that came installed on the new Mac in the Applications folder, not some alias to the old Photos from your old Mac, that you transferred, when you set the new Mac up.
When I click on "about" in Affinity Photo, it shows 1.10.6 as a version. I bought V2 and thought I had successfully registered-but this makes me wonder. How do I verify registration? I am using a mac ventura 13.2.1.
I doubt this about registration. You can have both V1 and V2 installed, as they are separate applications. If you have V2 installed, you might just be starting V1 instead. What do you see in your Applications folder?
Well, this is where I have been stuck. I bought and I thought downloaded V2 but I kept having issues with the registration-which, it's been a couple of months and I cannot remember what they were. I held off to let some of the bugs, which always accompany new releases, get worked out. Any tips on the registration? My experience, it's usually something small and dumb that I miss. Thanks!
Depends from where you bought V2 from. - If from the Affinity Store then login in there and download & install V2 from there. Registration will take place after first time app start, it will ask you to supply your Affinity Store login Email (ID) and PWD and then will enable the app, as far as you bought from there.
One guess: perhaps you downloaded from the Affinity Store and installed it incorrectly. If you just opened the DMG installer file and ran the program from there, instead of copying it to the Applications for, then the application would disappear from your system after a reboot. The installer might still be in your Downloads folder, but it would be out of date, so you should redownload.
Well, I went to my account. There's a section showing my downloads and product keys. There's a button next to V2 DOWNLOAD. If I click on this, I am not actually downloading the program? What is DMG installer file? How would I copy to applications? I'm pretty confused.
Note that the DMG (disk image) file when opened (double clicked) will be automounted and appears as a disk mounting point path in MacOS Finder or any other OSX file managers. - So after dragging/copying the APh app folder over to the system global "/Applications" folder, or alternatively into the user's "Users/username/Applications" applications folder (after installing), the mounted disk file point path has to be ejected/unmounted/removed via pressing the eject icon button -> "" next to it, otherwise it would be kept as a mounted disk file path!
The above will not delete the initial downloaded APh dmg file, instead only just get rid of the disk file mounting point. The initial downloaded APh dmg file can be saved/moved to some own backup directory in order to keep it, or if one don't want to keep it locally as a backup, it can be removed/deleted after the installment!
My understanding is that DMG is short for Disk Mount Image. This is a file which the Mac OS will open as a "pretend" external hard drive. You can open the "pretend" hard drive and see the files in it.
If you open the DMG you should see the "pretend" hard drive opened up in a new Finder Window, depending on your OS preferences you may also see a Hard Drive icon appear on your Destop. Now you can Drag the Application onto the alias for the Application folder and that will copy the Application into your Applications folder. Or you could drag the Application into/onto your actual Applications folder to copy it into there. You can now eject the "pretend" hard drive and you'll still have the copy of the Application in your Applications folder. That copy is what you will open up and run.
By the left side I think you mean what is called the Sidebar in Mac-speak. If it is not visible you can enable it from the Finder View menu ("Show Sidebar") or use the keyboard shortcut for that.
The root level Applications folder should be on the sidebar by default, but if it is not you can add it (or any other folder you want), for instance, as mentioned about half way down this Apple Support article by dragging it into the sidebar or via Finder > Settings (or Preferences).
How do I export an original unedited version of a photo I aready edited? I need something I can use and not the lightroom file and metadata I keep getting when I try to export an original. I edited these photos months ago. I don't see why this should be so difficult so any help is much appreciated.
In the Develop Module, once again select the first history state, right click on the image, select Create Virtual Copy. The virtual copy should open. Accomplish any desired edits such as undoing any import actions such as sharpening, or perhaps, if desired, use the Classic General Preset Zeroed (overkill?)
Is there anyway to do this in bulk for an entire folder? I guess go into each one, set it to import in the history module, export all of them, then go back change them back as needed. I'm hoping there's a shorter way to do this.
If the original image is a RAW and you want an undedited JPG as export, then follow the above instructions if a preset has not been applied at Import. If a preset is applied at import, then clicking on the first (bottom) step of the history panel does not give you the original unedited image, it gives you the image with the preset applied (in other words, edited). In this case, what you really should do is click on Reset in the Develop Module, do the export to JPG, and then in the develop module undo the Reset action by selecting the step in the History Panel below Reset. \
Option 2: Select the photo and choose Photo > Show in Explorer (Windows) or Finder (macOS). That will switch you out to the desktop and select the source file in its folder there, and especially if it is a raw file, it will not have been modified afer importing (since Lightroom Classic edits are stored in its catalog). So you can simply copy that original wherever you wanted to use it. (If there is an accompanying XMP file, do not copy that, so that you can leave those edits behind.) That Show in Explorer command is also available if you right-click the image or its thumbnail preview.
Thanks everyone for the help! I was able to get it figured out because of you guys. A preset company wanted to feature the before and after of an image of mine and I was stressing over not being able to figure it out but now I know. Cheers to you all.
I find it easiest to go to the "Before and After" panel where Lightroom displays the edited and the original. Then, hit the button to swap the before and after settings to make the "After" image the original. Hit export, and then re-swap the edits or undo. If the before version has edits applied to it as well you can reset those and then undo the reset if you wanted to keep them. I like this method so that I ensure I have the same crop exported to compare the before and afters.
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