Google| Subject | OSX Photos and referenced files |
| From | Sandman |
| Date | 02/18/2015 11:18 (02/18/2015 11:18) |
| Message-ID | <sandman-f9e405cc7a15f7ba0af9f52b0b912fd8@individual.net> |
| Client | |
| Newsgroups | rec.photo.digital |
| Followups | Whisky-dave (3h & 26m) MC (11h & 50m) > Sandman |
So I installed the beta of the OSX Photos app, and opened my iPhoto/Aperture library with it, which worked just fine. Then I went into preferences to enable iCloud Photos, which was the entire point of OSX Photos. And this is what I see:
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>Yeah, that's right, you can't used referenced photos if you want to sync with iCloud, you have to keep all photos inside the library, totally managed by Photos.
Which of course is a problem, since Photos isn't a professional tool, and most of these photos need to be available to Lightroom. If I consolidate them into the library, my entire Lightroom catalog will crumble and die.
It seems that this Photos thing is always on the edge of a good idea, but then a deal breaker comes along... :/
-- Sandman
02/18/2015-
