PowerPhotos 3.5

PowerPhotos Mac photo library manager for duplicate cleanup

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PowerPhotos - The ultimate toolbox for Photos on the Mac. PowerPhotos works with the built-in Photos app on your Mac, providing an array of tools to help you get your photo collection in order.

Create and manage multiple libraries
Instead of being limited to putting all your photos in a single library, PowerPhotos can work with multiple Photos libraries, giving you many more options for how to organize your ever growing photo collection.

Splitting your photos between multiple libraries helps Photos open more quickly, lets you archive older photos, store some of your collection on an external hard drive, and reduce storage space used by iCloud Photo Library.

Copy photos and their metadata
You can split your library by copying albums and photos with a simple drag and drop. PowerPhotos will take care of copying the photos and retaining their metadata, including keywords, descriptions, titles, dates, and favorite status. Read more about what PowerPhotos can copy.

Merge Photos libraries
Got a whole bunch of libraries you want to consolidate into one? PowerPhotos lets you merge your libraries together while weeding out duplicate photos in the process. You will be shown a preview of what your merged library will look like before any modifications are done, to ensure your merged library looks how you want.

Find duplicate photos
It’s easy to have multiple copies of the same photo creep into your photo collection over time. Use PowerPhotos to find duplicate photos in one or more libraries, view them side by side, and separate them into albums where you can easily delete them from your library.

Browse and search
Use PowerPhotos’ image browser to quickly view your photos without having to open Photos itself. View detailed photo information using List View, and search for photos across all your libraries at once.

Migrate your iPhoto/Aperture libraries
If you have a lot of existing iPhoto or Aperture libraries that you want to migrate over to Photos, PowerPhotos will help automate your migrations so you don’t have to spend time babysitting this lengthy process.

Version 3.5

Photo browser stability

This release includes a rework of the PowerPhotos photo browser and how it responds to library changes. This should eliminate a lot of previous causes of PowerPhotos hanging and crashing in response to various changes in the photo library.

Performance

  • Photo browser updates more quickly to changes in the photo library.
  • Merges of libraries with lots of albums are now up to twice as fast.
  • Small exports now finish much more quickly.

New features

  • Changing titles, keywords, captions, and ratings for individual photos in the inspector now supports undo (batch edits already supported this). Album renames are now undoable as well.
  • The View > Sort By menu now includes all the same options in grid view as it already did in list view, adding Albums, Caption, Keywords, Kind, and Place.

Bug fixes

  • Copying burst photos now more reliably keeps the same “key” photo for the burst.
  • Copying RAW + JPEG photos with the “Copy unmodified original” option now respects the “Use as Original” menu item in Photos, instead of always copying the JPEG.
  • Improved reliability of cancelling import and export operations.
  • Improved duplicate detection with HDR photos.
  • Undoing the “Add to Album” menu item no longer removes photos that were already in the album before adding the new photos.
  • Fixed an issue with undo not being registered properly when multiple windows are open.
  • The “Screen Recordings” album now appears in the “Media Types” folder in the album list.
  • Exporting a video with the “Original with metadata” option where the video needed to be downloaded from iCloud now correctly keeps the metadata from the original video.
  • The AppleScript export command no longer stalls at the setup stage and reports 0 photos exported.
  • The inspector keeps a typed title when you click another photo without pressing Tab or Return.
  • The Add to Album menu now shows folders that hold no regular albums.
  • Fixed an error when renaming a smart album.
  • Fixed an error when copying certain videos with extraneous resources.
  • Creating a folder no longer fails when the top level of the library holds a smart album.
  • AppleScript now more quickly sees changes made in Photos or in PowerPhotos.
  • The size calculation for a large folder no longer keeps running in the background when you change the selection.
  • Fixed a crash when copying photos to a library whose disk runs out of free space.
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