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kb1858
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8 years ago
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Uploading albums from Apple Photos to Dropbox for back up.

Hi   I am trying to sort out cloud storage for my photos.  They are on Apple Photos on a Mac running Sierra 10.12.6.  I already have an external harddrive on which they are regularly backed up.  ...
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  • Jay's avatar
    Jay
    8 years ago
    Hi Kate, most likely this won’t work since the Photos app is a database of its own (hence why we don’t recommend syncing it to Dropbox).
     
    However, in Photos, you should be able to export the album, or the photos out of that app into the Dropbox folder. This will copy the photos, not just move them, so you will be duplicating the space used on your Mac the more photos you copy over.
     
    Hope this clarifies matters!
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joybliss
New member | Level 2
5 years ago

Yes, I am doing the same trying to send albums to other users.  Transferring to other users that are PC, metadata isn't transferring with the picture?  Not sure if it transfers to Mac users, haven't tested.  Pulling my hair out on this metadata/Mac problem.  Don't want to spend hours on my 1000's of pictures tagging, adjusting times, locations, titles (many are old scanned pictures).  Any help or direction appreciated.   Joyce

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Snappy23
Explorer | Level 4
5 years ago

joyblissSee my tip above, I had posted it last year but just updated it. As for your scanned photos, if you have added titles, dates, descriptions, keywords and locations using Photos or another metadata editor program, this app exports them. But I noticed that for videos, it doesn't export keywords.

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    joybliss
    New member | Level 2
    5 years ago

    thanks for the quick reply - I'll give it a try!

     

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