Mac How To Create Link Library

We take a lot of photos with our iPhones and even DSLRs and other cameras. Photos are great for capturing memories with others, or when you just want to get a snapshot of something beautiful. Photos on Mac can help you keep all of your photos in one place, and even help you organize them.

Library names are limited to eight characters, must begin with a letter or underscore, and can contain only letters, numbers, or underscores. Blanks are not allowed. In the Path box, enter the physical path where the library resides. If you want to access this library each time you use SAS Studio, select Re-create this library at start-up. Step 3: Open the Music app, then tap Library in the bottom toolbar, then Home Sharing. Step 4: Choose a library and wait for Music to download it to your device. Once that’s done, you can play. To create a DLL project in Visual Studio 2017. On the menu bar, choose File New Project to open the New Project dialog box. In the left pane of the New Project dialog box, select Installed Visual C Windows Desktop.In the center pane, select Dynamic-Link Library (DLL).Enter MathLibrary in the Name box to specify a name for the project. Leave the default Location and Solution name values. Jul 08, 2019  To create the library file—which is actually an archive file—we will use ar. We are using the -c (create) option to create the library file, the -r (add with replace) option to add the files to the library file, and the -s (index) option to create an index of the files inside the library file.

How to add pictures and videos to albums

If you have a lot of photos and videos, one of the simplest and easiest ways to start organizing everything is to make use of albums, especially when you give them good names. And if you use iCloud Photo Library, all of your albums in Photos for Mac get synced to your iOS devices too.

  1. Launch Photos on your Mac.

  2. Click on Photos in the sidebar, under the Library section.

  3. Pick out the photos you want to add to an album, either new or existing.

    • Hold down the command key on your Mac and click to select multiple photos.
  4. Right-click on your chosen photos and videos.
  5. Move the cursor to Add to.

  6. You can choose an existing album, or create new album.

    • If making a new album, give it a good, easy-to-remember name.

Optionally, you can make a new album at any time by clicking the + button that appears in the sidebar next to My Albums. Drag-and-drop the albums in whatever order you want to rearrange them in the sidebar.

How to organize albums and folders

When you have a lot of albums, it may be better to clean it all up by organizing albums into folders, which are like collections of albums. It's easy to do.

You can also click on the Finder Icon in the Dock of your Mac to activate the Go Option.2. Home library for mac windows 7. Next, click on the Go option in the top menu-bar of your Mac.3.

  1. Launch Photos on your Mac.

  2. Either right-click on My Albums in the sidebar, or hover above and then click on the + button that appears next to My Albums.

  3. Click New Folder.

  4. Give your folder a name.

  5. Drag the albums that you want into that folder.

How to use Smart Albums

Smart Albums are like regular albums, but smarter, obviously. They're great for helping you quickly organize images without the need of manually adding each one to an album because it's all automated.

  1. Launch Photos on your Mac.

  2. Right-click on My Albums or click the + button that appears next to My Albums.

  3. Select New Smart Album.
  4. Give your Smart Album a name.

  5. Choose the parameters for your Smart Album.

  6. Click OK to confirm.

Smart Albums have a large number of different parameters, such as photos, faces, aperture, ISO, Live Photo, RAW, Portrait, and more. With all of these options, you can create many different Smart Albums to suit whatever it is you need.

If you're not satisfied with the Smart Album, you can always tweak the settings by clicking on the gear icon that's next to the Smart Album's title, then re-select the parameters you want to use.

Unfortunately, Smart Albums do not sync to your other devices through iCloud Photo Library, as they're only available on your Mac.

How to navigate Photos for Mac faster with the sidebar

The Sidebar in Photos is a great way to quickly jump between various areas in Photos quickly and easily. Plus, it helps you find albums that may otherwise be hidden, so this was a design choice made by Apple.

However, if you are running macOS Sierra and older, you can actually hide or unhide the sidebar as you wish.

  1. Launch Photos on your Mac.
  2. Click on View in the menu bar.
  3. Select Show Sidebar in the menu.
  4. The sidebar will appear on the left side of the screen.

  5. Follow the steps above to hide it (make sure Show Sidebar is unchecked).

How to navigate moments, collections, and year views in macOS Mojave and earlier

One of the coolest things about Photos is that it intelligently groups all of your photos and videos into moments, collections, and years.

This means that your photos appear in a timeline and are grouped by things like location, or even event. It's a great way to take a look back at your memories and relive those specific moments in time.

The Moments, Collections, and Year views are only available in macOS Mojave and older.

  1. Launch Photos on your Mac.
  2. Make sure that you're in the Photos view from the sidebar.

  3. Click on Photos, Moments, Collections, or Years buttons at the top of the window.

  4. Click on a section of a Year to move to that Collection, or a section of a Collection to drill down into that Moment, or an item in a Moment to view that image or video in closer detail.

  5. You can also use your keyboard's arrow keys to move between photos and videos in a Moment.

  6. A single click on an item selects it, while a double click takes you to view it.

In the Year and Collections views, thumbnails can be small. You can click-and-hold and then drag the cursor in any direction over the thumbnails to get a larger preview. Letting go will take you directly to the image that the cursor was last on.

How to navigate through Years, Months, and Days in macOS Catalina

To replace the previous Moments/Collections/Years view, Catalina changed it to Years, Months, and Days for simplicity.

  1. Launch Photos on your Mac.

  2. Make sure you're in the Photos section in the sidebar.

    Source: iMore

  3. Click the Years, Months, or Days buttons at the top of the window. The default view is All Photos.

  4. Clicking on Years lets you see each year as a block. Double-clicking the year takes you into Months.

  5. When you double-click on a Month, you'll drill down into the Days view.

How to create a new library with Photos for Mac

You can create a new library for your photos at any time with Photos for Mac. To do so, make sure that you quit Photos and reopen it with the following method to get the Library options.

  1. Hold down the Option key on your keyboard.
  2. Double-click on Photos on your Mac.
  3. Click on the Create New button in the Choose Library window.
  4. Name your Library.

  5. Click OK.

You've now created a brand new Photos Library. Unfortunately, there is no easy way to migrate over photos and video, so you will need to export the content you want, and then import it back into the new library.

How to switch between Libraries in Photos for Mac

Mac

When you create a new library, you may still want to go back to a previous library for something. Fortunately, it's easy to switch between multiple libraries.

  1. Make sure that Photos is not open (quit if it is).
  2. Hold down the Option key on your keyboard.
  3. Double-click on Photos.

  4. Click on the name of the library you want to open.

Voilá! Just make sure to repeat this process each time you want to switch to a different Photo library.

How to move your Photos library to an external hard drive

If you're low on storage space on your Mac, you can just move your Photos Library to an external hard drive. Keep in mind though, that you will need to have this external drive plugged in to access your Photos Library, even if you have iCloud Photo Library enabled. And you aren't able to create a second Photos Library that has iCloud Photo Library enabled on your Mac, so be wary.

  1. Launch a Finder window on your Mac.
  2. Click on the Mac hard drive (Macintosh HD) in the sidebar.
  3. Double-click on the Users folder.
  4. Double-click on your username.
  5. Double-click on your Pictures folder.

  6. Click on the Photos Library file and then drag it to your external hard drive in the sidebar.

This process may take a while, depending on how big your Photos library is.

A note on reference libraries

The Photos app technically supports the management of images that aren't locally stored within its library — that is, you can keep a set of images in a folder called 'October Trip' and manage them within Photos without having to make a separate copy of them. You can do this by navigating to Photos > Preferences from the menu bar, selecting the General tab, and unchecking the 'Copy items to the Photos library' box under Importing.

That said, reference libraries won't play nicely with iCloud Photo Library users; you may run into problems when syncing, or not be able to sync at all. So if you plan on using a reference library, you'll have to opt out of iCloud Photo Library.

I also didn't have any luck getting referenced files to sync properly with Photos — I'd delete a photo, but the reference file would stay in its original location, even after deleting it from the 'Recently Deleted' folder. Not sure if that's a bug or just not how Photos wants us managing referenced photos, but worth noting.

Questions?

Sound off in the comments below!

October 2019: Updated for macOS Catalina.

Photos for Mac

Main

For all your USB-C needs

The HybridDrive is a USB-C dock with an SSD built in

You need more ports, right? And you probably need more storage, right? What you really need is the HybridDrive.

A symbolic link, often shortened to symlink,is a type of link that is stored at one location on your machine and it pointsto another location on the same machine. You can think of it as a shortcut ofan app. Even though the actual app file is located deep inside your folders,you can simply double-click on the app shortcut on your desktop to launch theapp.

A symlink is a type of shortcut, but it works differently than regular shortcuts. It’s less of a shortcut and more of the actual file it’s pointing to. Any app that you provide with your symlinks will think of these links as the actual files rather than normal shortcut files.

These are extremely useful as you don’t haveto be stuck to a particular folder for an app to work. You can have your datastored in other folders and you can create a symlink in the original folderpointing to the new folder you’ve created. Your system and your apps will thinkyou haven’t really made any changes and they’ll work normally, although thingsare otherwise.

Creating a Symlink Using TheTerminal

Making a symlink on a Mac is extremely easy.The built-in Terminal app has a command that lets you easily create as manysymlinks as you want on your Mac.

All that you need to know is the locationwhere you want to create the symlink and the path where the symlink shouldpoint to. Once you have this information, here’s how you create a symlink inTerminal.

Launch the Terminal app using your preferred way on your Mac.

Type in the following command into the Terminal window and hit Enter. Make sure to replace destination with the folder you want the link to point to and location with the path where you want to save the link.
ln -s destination location

To create a symlink on your desktop that points to your Documents folder, you’d use the following command:
ln -s /Users/Mahesh/Documents /Users/Mahesh/Desktop

A symlink will be created and saved on your desktop. Double-click on it and it’ll open the Documents folder (if that’s what you specified above) in the Finder.

If the directory you want to create a symlinkfor has spaces in its names, make sure to enclose the path names with doublequotes so as to avoid any errors.

You can now use this symlink in any of your commands and apps and it’ll be considered as the actual version of your folder or file.

Use An App To Create a Symlink

Terminal isn’t the only way to create symlinkson your Mac. If you don’t happen to be a Terminal guy, you have an appavailable to let you create symlinks on your machine.

What this app does is it adds an option toyour context menu so you can create symlinks by just right-clicking on yourfiles and folders.

Head over to the SymbolicLinker page on GitHub and download and open the package on your Mac.

Copy the SymbolicLinker.service.app file from the package, hold down the Option key, click on the Go menu in the Finder, select Library, open the Services folder, and paste the file you copied.

Double-click on the app to open it. It won’t show anything but it has secretly added an option to your context menu.

Find the file or folder you want to create a symlink for, right-click on it, and select Services followed by Make Symbolic Link.

It’ll create the symlink in the same folder asthe original file/folder. You can move it around though if you want.

Windows

Create Symlinks Using AnAutomator Service

The Automator method to create symlinks workspretty much the same way as the above method. But this one will suit those ofyou who don’t trust any random apps on the Internet, and you’d rather createsomething by yourself so you know exactly what it contains.

Launch the Automator app on your Mac.

Select Service followed by Choose to create a new Automator service on your Mac.

Set the options at the top as the following:
Service receives selected – files or folders
in – any application

In the actions list, search for the action named Run Shell Script and drag it over to the right panel.

Configure the action and the commands as the following:
Shell – /bin/bash
Pass input – as arguments
while [ $# -ne 0 ]; do
ln -s “$1” “$1 symlink”
shift
done

Save the service by clicking on the File menu at the top and selecting Save. Enter a meaningful name for the service and hit Save.

To create a symlink with the newly created Automator service, right-click on your file or folder and select Services followed by your service name.

You can also create a keyboard shortcut for the service to make creating symlinks even easier on your machine.

Deleting a Symlink On Mac

Symlinks don’t occupy much memory space asthey’re just shortcuts to the files and folders on your machine. However, ifyou want to remove one or a few of these from your machine, you have two waysto do it.

Launch the Terminal app, type in the following command, and hit Enter. Make sure to replace symlink with the path of the symlink on your Mac.
rm symlink

Another way to delete a symlink is to use the context menu option. Right-click on your symlink and select Move to Trash. It’ll remove the symlink from your Mac.

Make sure to empty the Trash after you’re removed the symlink to ensure it’s gone for good from your Mac.

Conclusion

Symlinks are much more powerful than regularaliases as these work in all the apps and commands as if these were the realfiles.