It’s only $10 per month and it looks like Adobe has made it easier to cancel. The full app costs $50.Īnother option, and maybe it’s worth trying, is using Lightroom to export my photos. That seems to work fine, but the folders inside the package are weirdly organized. I’ve tried a few experiments with directly copying photos from the Photos Library package. The ones I have tried seem to strip out the Live Photo component, which I want to preserve. I’ve experimented with the trial version of Photos Takeout, but it’s frustrating since you can’t choose which photos to export. Photos freezes up and I get an “out of memory” error despite have 40 GB of RAM and 100 GB of SSD free. It works fine for transferring recent images to my Synology, but gets stuck when trying to import older photos from iCloud Photos.Įxporting from Photos totally fails when trying to do my whole library. The Synology Photos app on the iPhone and iPad. Here are some things I have tried, none of them work perfectly: If your Photos library is still corrupted? At this point, I’m afraid I can’t help you - it’s time to start Googling third party repair and recovery tools.I want to export my Apple Photos library to a standard, browsable folder structure on my Synology NAS. And in a worst case scenario you have full access to the image files so you can freely copy them, back them up, and open them in other applications. You can create a new Photos library (hold the Option key when launching Photos and select “Create New,” then once in the new Photos library, use “Import” to import the contents of the image file folders you copied. If the repair tool still fails, you still have all those image files copied to a new location. Launch Photos and run the repair tool again. Once you have all the files copied, you know they are good.ġ0. The damaged image files are likely lost, but may be recoverable with third party tools.ĩ. Continue this process until you’ve copied all the folders from Masters.Ĩ. Skip any corrupt files - but remove them from the original folders- and keep copying.ħ. You’ll need to manually create a folder in the new location with the exact same name to copy those files into. In the case of copy failure, start again on copying the folder where you ran into the issue, but instead of the entire folder, copy a few files at a time until you find the corrupt one(s). In this case copy failure is a good thing, because we’re hoping to find a corrupt file.Ħ. If the copy fails, it means it has hit a corrupt image file in the folder - which is likely the problem, or part of the problem (there could be more than one corrupt file). Make certain you are actually copying the folders, not simply moving the originals by holding the Option key when dragging the folder to the new location.ĥ. Start copying the contents to a new location, one folder at a time.
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