Hi Rosemary, sounds like your five year libraries might still be too large for Photos to easily handle. It could possibly be related to the specs of the iMac as well. It would be useful to know the size of your photo libraries and how much RAM and hard drive space you have.
I upload my photos to the Mac using adobe Bridge, which allows me to set up albums and import photos into folders in date order. Then, I import to Photos and Lightroom, starting a new library each year. I’ve found both Apple Photos and Lightroom don’t like large photo libraries. Even with the Photos libraries set to optimise storage on my Mac meaning that most of the files are in the Cloud. With Lightroom, I add photos without moving them into the catalogue. Have you tried setting up a new Photos library and just putting a few photos in it to see how it runs? This would clarify whether the problem is the size of the libraries. Cheers, Susan Sent from my iPad > On 4 Jul 2019, at 1:15 pm, Rosemary Spark <[email protected]> wrote: > > Both my husband and I have macbooks which had run out of space because of > large Photos libraries. We inherited an iMac so decided to move both > libraries on to it. I've spent the last month with PowerPhotos creating > separate libraries in 5 year blocks, trying to maintain albums etc. However > now I've done this the Photos libraries still are extremely slow to do > anything at all. Moving, changing titles, editing etc. Even opening the info > pane can take 5 minutes. > > Has anyone found a better program ( quicker!!) to organise and edit photos. > > > iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2015) running Mojave 10.14.5 > > Rosemary Spark > PO Box 781 > South Fremantle WA 6162 Australia > Phone: + 61 8 6397 6822 > Mobile: 0414268043 > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
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