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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. ...
Jay
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffThanks Jay that's helpful. I guess I just need to drag and drop them all back and start again....
Thanks!
Kate
Photos Takeout, an app on the Mac app store, does exactly this. It can export album-wise, year-wise or moment/date-wise folders from Photos on Mac to Dropbox, other cloud services, Mac or external HD. I use it on Big Sur, but it works on older macOSs too. It can also export incrementally i.e. photos added and edited since the last export.
If this works for you, please mark this as the correct answer so that it can also help others.PS: You can also export one album at a time with Photos app by selecting all photos in the album, then clicking File / Export in the top menu (Don't use Drag & drop because it'll export JPG versions and exclude some of the metadata).
Thanks Snappy that's helpful. I'll take a look. The dropbox solution took up too much local disk space so I went with Apple photos and several external harddrive backups in the end.
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
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.
thanks for the quick reply - I'll give it a try!
Hello,
I want to transfer all my photos in Apple photos app to Dropbox. (I realize that the album format present in the app unfortunately cannot not be duplicated in the folder I have created in Dropbox for the transfer) Is it better to export the photos via the export function in apple Photos app or to use the upload feature in Dropbox? Is there any difference in the quality of the photo that ends up in Dropbox? Thanks in advance for your reply.
