Sep 27, 2016 Open Finder, or just click on the desktop. Then click “Go” in the menu bar, and select “Go to Folder”. You can also skip all this clicking by pressing Command+Shift+G on your keyboard to access the Go to Folder menu. Type /Library in the box and hit Enter.

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To combine Photos libraries, open the source library and export the photos and videos that you want to keep. Then open the destination library (the one that you want to use as your main library) and import the photos and videos.

• There are actually three Library folders on the Mac. The Library folder you can see contains files that are accessible to all users but only changeable by administrators. Then there is the.
• Nov 09, 2012  There’s a Library folder at the root-level of your hard drive, there’s a second Library folder inside the root-level System folder and another Library folder in each User’s Home folder. In the normal day-to-day course of events, you don’t need to worry about any of them, and that’s fine because they’re all hidden away from you by default.

Choose a photo library

Here's how to open one of the multiple photo libraries that you might have on your Mac or on a connected external drive:

1. Press and hold the Option key as you open the Photos app.
2. Select the library that you want to open, then click Choose Library.

Photos uses this library until you open a different one using the same steps.

Export photos and videos from the source library

Open the source library, then decide whether you want to export your files as unmodified originals or edited versions:

Edited versions retain their edits when you import them. The advantage is that you don't have to recreate any edits; however, these files become the destination library's originals. This means that you can't revert to their earliest pre-import version.

Unmodified originals don't show any edits that you made when they were in the source library. This gives you flexibility for later editing, but recreating your edits might take substantial work.

How to export edited versions

1. In the Photos app, select the photos and videos that you want to export. To select multiple items, press and hold the Command key while you click. To select a group of items in order, click the first one, then press and hold the Shift key while you click the last one. This selects all of the items between the two that you clicked.
2. Choose File > Export > Export [number].
   
3. An export dialog appears.
   
   • In the Photos section, set Photo Kind to JPEG, TIFF, or PNG. JPEG recompresses your photos, which may result in smaller file sizes. TIFF and PNG files are higher fidelity and may result in larger file sizes.
   • In the Videos section, choose a Movie Quality setting. This section appears only if your selected items include videos.
   • In the Info section, select the checkboxes if you want to preserve metadata and location data in the exported files.
   • In the File Naming section, set File Name to Use File Name and set Subfolder Format to either Moment Name or None. Moment Name creates a subfolder for each Moment that's represented in your selected items. This is useful if you'd like to create an Album in the destination library for each Moment. The None option exports all of the files directly into the destination folder.
     
4. Click Export. A Finder dialog appears.
   
5. Navigate to the location where you want to save the files, such as the Desktop or an external drive. Click New Folder if you create a new folder for your exported items.
6. Click Export.

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How to export unmodified originals

1. In the Photos app, then select the photos and videos that you want to export. To select multiple items, press and hold the Command key while you click. To select a group of items in order, click the first one, then press and hold the Shift key while you click the last one. This selects all of the items between the two that you clicked.
2. Choose File > Export > Export Unmodified Original.
   
3. An export dialog appears.
   
   • If your photos include IPTC metadata (such as titles or keywords) that you want to keep, select the Export IPTC as XMP checkbox.
   • Leave the File Name setting on Use File Name.
   • Next to Subfolder Format, choose Moment Name or None. Moment Name creates a subfolder for each Moment that's represented in your selected items. This is useful if you'd like to create an Album in the destination library for each Moment. The None option exports all of the files directly into the destination folder.
     
4. Click Export. A Finder dialog appears.
   
5. Navigate to the location where you want to save the files, such as the Desktop or an external drive. Click New Folder if you create a new folder for your exported items.
6. Click Export Originals.

How to import photos and videos into the destination library

Open the destination library, then drag the folder that contains your exported items into the main area that shows your other photos and videos. When a green plus sign appears on your pointer, you can release the folder.

The photos in the folder are sorted into Moments based on their creation dates and locations. The videos are sorted based on the date you exported them from the source library.

If you created subfolders when you exported the items and you want to create an Album for each subfolder, follow these steps:

1. In the Finder, open a subfolder.
2. Select all of the photos and videos within the subfolder.
3. Drag the items onto My Albums in the Photos sidebar.
4. Name the Album in the highlighted text box that appears in the sidebar.
   
5. Repeat for each subfolder.

Save space by deleting the source library

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If you're sure that you've exported all of the photos and videos that you want to keep from the source library, you can delete it to save disk space on your Mac.

First, open the Finder and find the source library that you want to delete. By default, photo libraries are stored in your Pictures folder. If you can't find the library, follow the steps to choose a library; the path to the selected library's location appears in the Choose Library window.

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Next, move the source library to the Trash. Then choose Finder > Empty Trash to permanently delete the files.

Learn more

You may come across instructions from time-to-time that ask you to access your Library folder on your Mac. But there are two such folders. One is in your Home folder, and the other is at the top level of your drive. These are used for different things. Most of the time, the Library folder you want is the one in your Home folder. Find out how to reveal it, even though it is hidden, and how to get to it quickly with a menu command.

Check out A Tale Of Two Library Folders at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.

Video Transcript: From time to time as a Mac user you'll be told to look in your Library folder or do something with your file in the Library folder. So where is the Library folder?Well, it gets complicated because there is actually really two of them. So let's take a look here by opening a new Finder window and we're looking at our Documents folder now. If we go to the Home folder, and I've got a little Home folder icon here under Favorites, but you can also go Home, you can see your user Home folder. It typically has things in it like Movies, Music, it may have documents and desktop in there unless you've turned the iCloud function on and you have those in iCloud. But in your Home folder is a Library folder. Where is it? You don't see it. Well, it's invisible. There are a couple of ways you can get to it. One thing you can do is you can go to View, Show View Options, and you can select here Show Library Folder. Now it appears. So that's where the Library folder is. But that's only one of them. The other one is at the top level of your computer. So we'll create a new Finder window here and we're going to use Go and we're going to go to the computer level. That shows you all of your drives. Now let's look at our main drive. For most of us it's going to be called Macintosh HD. We go in and there we can see a Library folder. So we can take a look at these side by side. We've got a Library folder here in our Home folder that's hidden but we can reveal it. We've got a Library folder that we can see at the top level of the drive. So which one do you want to use?In most cases you're going to be interested in the library folder in the Home folder. This will have items in it, I'll go into it, tons of different items, preferences, settings, libraries for different things all related to you as a user. These change per user. For instance, if you set some custom settings for Safari, some bookmarks, things like that, then of course if you login as another user into your machine then you're going to see different settings. So for the most part most items that you're concerned about in the Library are going to be in your user library folder. But there are going to be things at the system library level. But when somebody says look in your Library folder or do something with a file in your Library folder, it's the user level folder, the one that's easiest to get to because it's in your Home folder, you just have to remember to make it visible. Now an easy way to get to your Home Library folder is the Go menu. But you'll notice it's not listed there. But if you hold the Option key down it appears and you can select it and go directly to the Library folder. If you had that Option turned on where you have Show Library Folder on, then the Go menu actually shows you the Library folder and even a shortcut for it right there without holding down the Option key.

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