Mac Use As System Photo Library Greyed Out

2 photo library in mac. You can check off Optimize Mac Storage to save space on your Mac by only saving a percentage of images and video locally — the rest will be thumbnails that you can click on to download when you want to.Source: iMore.Now, open your other Mac, and launch Photos. Click Photos in the menu bar.Select Preferences (or do this quicker by pressing ⌘,).Source: iMore.Click on the iCloud tab.Source: iMore.Check off the box for iCloud Photos. If you have an iPhoto library on that secondary Mac, follow the same steps as above — import your library, then turn on iCloud Photo Library. You can also check off the box for Download Originals to this Mac if you have the space. Launch Photos on your Mac.

So, after I upgraded to macOS High Sierra 10.13, the Photos app updated and iMovie no longer attached it in the Library. What I had to do is to set “Use as system photo library” in the Photos preferences, but it was grayed out. In order to reset this, I had to launch Photos with the option key pushed and a menu will come up, create a new library. After created a new library, open it up go to preferences, set Use as system photo library and the new one shows up in the iMovie. Now, I open the original Photo Library with Photos, go to preferences and the option Use as system photo library available, set it and my old Photo Library appear again in iMovie. Delete the new library.

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  1. Your photos need to be in the system photo library in order for them to be used for desktop and Screensaver etc. Go to preferences in the photos app and check if the library is set as system library. Be aware that the system library is usually also the library which syncs with icloud.
  2. If you see that several of your photo or video files are grayed out in the Photos section of iExplorer or in the Media/DCIM folder, that is a pretty good indicator that you do have iCloud Photo Library enabled.
  3. Oct 05, 2017  So, after I upgraded to macOS High Sierra 10.13, the Photos app updated and iMovie no longer attached it in the Library. What I had to do is to set “Use as system photo library” in the Photos preferences, but it was grayed out.

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Aug 05, 2014 Fix Grayed out data files and folders in Mac OS. To fix greyed out.jpg files for example, you need the xattr command. How to Upload Photos from the iPhoto Library Using Finder. Jan 01, 2017  Hello, I store my photo library (Mac Photos) on an external hard drive and every time I try to open the library (by clicking FileOpenselecting the external hard drive) the photo library is greyed out. The library is set as my system photo library, so Im not sure where to go from here.