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Losing photos and Photos Library corrupting can really drive Mac users crazy. If you are facing such a problem, calm down and read this article. Follow methods on this page to repair your Photos Library and recover all lost photos with EaseUS data recovery software for Mac immediately.

Jun 04, 2019  Move photos, files, and mail from Mac to Surface. Content provided by Microsoft. Move files stored on your Mac. For files stored locally on your Mac, you’ll need to copy them to your Surface by using an external drive. You don’t need to copy the Photo Library folder in Pictures if you already moved your photos over. The first time you start up Photos after upgrading, your Mac will copy over your photo library into the new software (if you explicitly set up more than one old iPhoto library, you’ll have to copy them over yourself). It doesn’t go back and delete the old one, though. How to Export Your Mac Photos Library. The first step in exporting your Mac Photos library is determining where your library resides on your hard drive. To do that, open Preferences in Photos: Look in the General section, where it says Library Location: Now, click on Show in Finder. Jul 12, 2017  How to Move Your Apple Photos Library to Another Location Matt Klein @howtogeek Updated July 12, 2017, 11:14am EDT Apple’s new Photos application was released as part of a. Access Library Folder On Mac Using “Go to Folder” Option. Another way to access the Library Folder on your Mac is by using the Folder Option on your Mac. Left-click your mouse anywhere on the screen of your Mac to reveal the Go Option in the top menu bar. You can also click on the Finder Icon in the Dock of your Mac to activate the Go option.

Applies to all new macOS: 10.15 (Catalina), 10.14(Mojave), 10.13 (High Sierra), 10.12 and old Mac OS X like 10.11 (El Capitan), 10.9, etc.

The article provides full solutions to recover photos after Photos Library corruption and fix the corrupted Photos Library:

Photos Library corrupted, help me restore my photos, please.

'Hi there, can anyone of you tell me how to restore my lost photos on Mac? The Photos Library corrupted suddenly. All my photos stored in the Photos Library all disappeared. What can I do?

Please help me. And this is important for me to recover photos. Any solutions or suggestions are all welcomed.'

How many of you guys are facing Photos Library crash or corrupt problem and unable to restore photos? Here EaseUS software provides effective methods to prevent similar problems from happening again, follow to repair Photos Library and recover all photos on Mac immediately.

Tip: Back up photos in case of losing them

If you didn't lose photos, the best choice is to backup them first. When unexpected troubles happen to your photos, you'll still have the backups. Here we recommend you to use Time Machine to backup all important photos and other data on Mac:

1. Click Time Machine and choose Set Up Time Machine.

2. Click Select Backup Disk or select locations (an external storage device is preferable) back up photos, and then click Use for Backup.

You can also copy photos and files one by one and paste to another storage device where you want to store the backups. Be patient and careful while copying and pasting.

Part 1. Recover lost photos after photos library corruption

If photos lost due to Photos application or Photos Library corruption, you have two ways to restore the lost photos: 1. Restore lost photos with Mac data recovery software; 2. Retrieve Photos Library with photos from Times Machine backup.

Method 1. Restore lost photos with EaseUS Mac data recovery software

If you didn't create a backup of Photos Library in the Time Machine, you'll need Mac data recovery software to help. We recommend you try EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard for Mac which supports to recover photos from corrupted Photo Library and even worse situations.

Step 1. Select the location where your valuable photos were lost and click Scan button.

Step 2. EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard for Mac will start immediately a quick scan as well as a deep scan on your selected disk volume. Meanwhile, the scanning results will be presented in the left pane.

Step 3. By Path and Type, you can quickly filter the photos you've lost earlier. Select the target files and click Recover Now button to get them back at once.

Method 2. Restore corrupted Photos Library with photos from Time Machine backup

If you've created a backup of Photos Library with Time Machine, follow the steps below to restore Photos Library and all lost photos:

1. Connect Time Machine backup drive.

2. Click Time Machine in the Dock and enter Time Machine

3. Find backups - your photos then click Restore to recover lost photos.

Part 2. Repair corrupted Photos Library

If the Photos behaves unexpectedly or Photos Library corrupts, follow next steps to start repairing Photos Library with Photos library repair tool:

Step 1. Close Photo Library if it's opened.

Mac Photo Library

Step 2. Relaunch Photo Library by holding Command + Option key.

Step 3. Click 'Repair' when the 'Repair Library' dialog pops up and ask whether you'd like to repair the library.

You might be asked to enter your account and password to authorize the library repair. And the Repair tool will analyze the database of Photos Library, repair detected errors.

If your Photos library is automatically updated with iCloud Photos, the entire contents of the library will re-updates with iCloud when the repair process completes.

Bonus Tip: Create a new Photos Library

The other alternative way to repair corrupted Photos Library is to create a new Photos Library on Mac. By doing so, you'll have your Photo Library back and reuse it to edit your photos again:

Step 1. Hold the Option key and double-click the Photos icon in the Applications folder (or click the Photos icon in the Dock).

Step 2. In the Choose Library dialogue, click Create New.

Create New Photo Library Mac

Step 3. Type a library name and choose a location to store the library. Click OK to confirm.

The Photos app that comes preloaded on most modern Macs is one of the great photo management apps I have ever come across. The app lets you manage your photos using various ways, and it does the job perfectly.

Whenever you want to see photos, you can just launch the Photos app, and it will show all of your photos stored in there, and you will also have the option to open your albums to see the photos inside them. If you want to get a photo out of the app, then you can do so using the export feature in the app, and you can then save the photo file anywhere you want on your Mac.

If you are exporting only a single photo, you can use the export feature. However, if you would like to export all the photos, from say a specific year, then you will want to find the Photos files and get the entire folder copied somewhere else.

To do that, you need first to find where the Photos app saves its files. The following guide shows exactly how you can locate the folder where the Photos files are located so you can access and play around with them.

Finding the Photos files on Your Mac

To do the task, all you need is access to Finder on your Mac, and you are good to go. You are not going to do any actions, but rather you are just going to explore the directories where the Photos files are located.

If you would just like to know the directory where the files are saved, then it is the following:

~/Pictures/Photos Library.photoslibrary/Masters/

You may use the Finder’s Go to Folder feature to go directly to that folder and access the files. However, a more simpler approach would be to find the folder using the following steps manually.

Launch a Finder window on your Mac. You can do so by double-clicking on the hard drive of your Mac, and you will see all of your folders, and that’s what a Finder window is. Then, open the folder named “Users” by double-clicking on it. When that opens, find the folder that has your name on it as that is where the content of your user account is located. Double-click on the folder to open it.

When your user folder opens, find the folder named “Pictures” and double-click on it to open it. Inside the Pictures folder, you will find a file called “Photos Library.photoslibrary.” If you have disabled the extension, you will only see the “Photos Library” part of the name, but it does not matter.

Right-click on that file and select the option that says “Show Package Contents.” What it will do is it will open the contents of the package you have right-clicked on.

When the contents folder opens, find and double-click on the folder that says “Masters” as that is where the Photos files are located.

Inside the “Masters” folder, you will find your photo files in year-based folders and you can double-click on them and access their contents. You can also copy these Photos files from these folders over to a different folder on your Mac.

Photo Library File Mac

So, that was how you could find the Photos files using Finder on your Mac.

Photo Library In Mac

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