iPhoto Library Manager allows you to organize your photos among multiple iPhoto libraries, rather than having to store all of your photos in one giant library. You can browse the photos in all your libraries directly from iPhoto Library Manager and search across all your libraries to help track down a particular photo.
iPLM also gives you the ability to copy your photos from one library to another, while keeping track of photo metadata that is normally lost when exporting from one library and importing into another. You can split up a large library into multiple smaller libraries, merge entire libraries together into a big one, or rebuild a corrupt library that is causing iPhoto to hang or crash. It can also analyze your libraries for duplicate photos, showing them to you side by side and letting you get rid of extra copies of photos that you no longer need.
What is new in this release:
- Fixed a crash when calculating library sizes on Snow Leopard
What is new in version 4.2.5:
- Fixed an issue that could could iPLM to stall when copying photos on macOS Sierra
- Updated Sparkle auto-updater to fix a security vulnerability
- Fixed an issue where the in-app store would not load for some users
- Hide the unused "Show Tab Bar" menu item on Sierra
What is new in version 4.2.4:
- Try to work around an iPhoto crasher on El Capitan when copying photos
- Prevent iPhoto from stopping a find duplicates or merge operation when working with an iPhoto library that was recently migrated to Photos
- Improved locating externally referenced photos in certain iPhoto libraries
What is new in version 4.2.3:
- Fixed a crash when trying to create or add a library on some systems
What is new in version 4.2.1:
- When bringing up the QuickLook window to browse photos on Yosemite, navigating using the arrow keys now works again
- Keep the duplicate browser from gradually scrolling up while adjusting the photo size
- Added documentation on how to update iPhoto on OS X 10.10.3
- Fixed a hang that could occur on startup if a large number of libraries were inaccessible, e.g. on an unconnected external drive
What is new in version 4.2:
- Worked around a Yosemite bug that could cause date copying issues on systems set to a non-US region with 24 hour time turned off
- Fixed a bug where event descriptions would not be loaded properly
- Fixed a bug where sometimes, certain scavenged photos would not be imported into a rebuilt library
- Prevent libraries from Photos from being added to iPLM'''s library list
- Improved the error message displayed when trying to import photos into a missing library
- We now recognize iPhoto libraries migrated using the Photos app
- Improved rebulid scavenging to include photos orphaned due to a particular variety of botched upgrade by iPhoto 9.6
- Fixed a bug where a library would not load if its name was changed to be blank
What is new in version 4.1.9:
- Fixed a bug that could cause certain libraries to never finish loading
- Fixed a problem where iPLM would fail to launch on OS X 10.6
Requirements:
iPhoto 8.1.2 or later
Limitations:
Purchasing iPhoto Library Manager allows you to copy unlimited numbers of photos at a time, merge libraries, and move duplicate photos to the trash.
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