Davoud
In article <953c1393-52d9-4e09-8e44-be6872bc3773@googlegroups.com>, <whisky.dave@gmail.com>wrote: Sandman:

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: <> 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... :/

Davoud
The deal breaker being that Apple pulls the rug out from under you. Sounds like you need a pro-level photo manager, whether or not you make your living from photography. So dump Photos and stick with LR. If you need to share photos, do it via Dropbox or Flickr or the like. As for bundling photos in a package, I did that with Aperture on the recommendation of Apple engineers. Big mistake, but I have recovered from it with LR's import-from-Aperture facility. Whisky-dave:

Whisky-dave
I thought that was the 'fun' of betas, and why they call htem betas rathe rthan the final product, they might work as expected but the fact it's a beta means that it might not work for you or anyone else. Personally I wouldn't use a beta on ANYTHING I considered important.

Davoud
Ny guess is that Photos will always be a rank-amateur application which will punish users at some point as their libraries grow.