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Update an existing Photos library

Update an existing Photos library - Apple Photos Tutorial

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Update an existing Photos library

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- [Instructor] This is the moment you've been waiting for. You finally have macOS Catalina loaded on your hard drive. You have the new Photos app, and you're ready to see what it looks like. Well, let's open up an older library, cause chances are that's what you have as well. And if there's any messages along the way we can address them together so that nothing surprises you. Okay, so one of the ways that I can do that is just double-click on an older library, and it will launch Photos for me. So here we go. Going to double-click right there. And we get updating library. And that's all there is to it. Isn't that nice? Now, obviously this library updated fast. Very fast, because there's hardly anything in it. Alrighty. However, if you have a library that is full and full and full and full of images, then it will take much longer as you can probably deduce. Just do the math, right? However, that is really all there is…

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