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The other day I found a backup of my Photos library from just before the iCloud incident (!!!).

From November 2015 through the end of 2016 I continued to use this library and all of the new photos I added remain ordered in the correct sequence. But now the 'All Photos' album is essentially useless for those 15 years of photos. At the time I didn't understand the consequences of this incident because I thought, at least I can sort using the Moments view. I'm still not quite sure what happened but it was definitely caused by pausing the iCloud upload. During the upload process my wifi was disconnected and the sequence of the photos in my Photos library was forever altered and randomized. Eventually I ran out of space on my SSD and in October 2015, I turned on iCloud Photo Sharing. When iPhoto was replaced in 2015, I migrated my library to Photos with no issues. I switched from PC to Mac in 2014 and imported all of my photos dating from 2000-2014 into iPhoto.

POWERPHOTOS MERGE ORDER HOW TO

If anyone knows how to merge two Photos libraries together while maintaining the sequence of photos in the 'All Photos' albums, please let me know. TLDR: Mac Photos and iCloud turn simple file management processes into extremely frustrating, time consuming headaches with no known solutions.

I'll try to keep this as brief as possible but there are a lot of details to the story. As a long time PC user, 3 years after switching to Mac I'm still amazed at how complicated simple file management tasks can be, and how Apple's own software often creates situations where the lack of user control over basic features (in this case, not allowing 'All Photos' to sort by photo date instead of import date, or not natively supporting merging of Photos libraries) causes huge problems. I'm hoping someone can help to resolve my headaches around the Mac Photos app, the order of photos in my library's 'All Photos' album, and attempting to merge two libraries with Fat Cat Software PowerPhotos.

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