![]() You can easily browse libraries in turn and move photos between libraries. ![]() Merge the libraries with PowerPhotos: PowerPhotos is a tool to manage Photos Libraries. You will have to recreate the albums as well. Photos 2.0 on Sierra can read the sidecar files on import - so exporting with XMP files will transfer the metadata to the new library. So there is no help for it but to export both, the originals and the edited versions, and to deal with the duplicates. Your metadata will be gone, unless you export the edited versions as JPEGS. On Yosemite or El Capitan - even if you export the originals with XMP sidecar files to preserve the IPTC metadata, the metadata from the sidecar file will not be applied to the originals when reimporting. ![]() You would have to export the edited versions and the originals separately and they would no longer be paired. This is the most tedious way and only feasible for very small libraries. Merge the libraries by exporting the photos (edited versions and originals) from one library and reimporting them into the other library. The download will be like to a different Mac, see: Use Photos and iCloud Photo Library on multiple Mac computers - Apple SupportTo sync the faces names with iCloud Photo Library, I apply keywords with the names of the persons to all photos in a people album. That is why I recommend to start with the smaller library. The merge will not include the Faces albums and projects from the first library you uploaded. The merged library will sync back to your larger Photos Library. This library will be merged into the library in iCloud too, creating a merged library in iCloud. Photos will merge the the library into the library that is already in iCloud.Now enable the larger library as your iCloud Photo Library. To merge in iCloud enable the smaller of the two libraries as your iCloud Photo Library.Wait for all photos to upload that can take a very long time, a week ore more, depending on the size of the library. My library with 40000 photos took a full week to upload. It is the best way to migrate libraries you invested much work into, but uploading large libraries to iCloud requires a paid subscription for more storage than the free 5GB - for at least a month, and it is slow. Photos will scan for duplicates while merging. The searchable faces names will upload (only on Photos 1.5 or older, not on Photos 2.0), but not the faces thumbnails and albums. All edited images will be paired with their originals, so you can undo the edits and revert to the original. Your albums and folders will migrate, keywords, titles, and other metadata.
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