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Additionally, all photos and videos from iCloud will redownload to the device. If you open a different library in the Photos app, and you haven't designated it as the System Photo Library, other applications will use photos from the original System Photo Library. Hold down the Option key when you open Photos to see which library is set as the System Photo Library. If you still have issues with Photos, contact Apple Support. How to designate a System Photo Library If you designate a new library as the System Photo Library and then turn on iCloud Photos, the photos and videos in the new library will merge with those already in your iCloud Photos.

For laptops, however, it's a great way to offload some of the seldom viewed or older pictures in your library. To create a second iPhoto library, quit iPhoto and then hold down the Option key while you launch iPhoto. This will open a window that displays a list of your various libraries. Hit the Create New button, give the library a name, and choose a location including an external hard drive, if you have one connected.

Hit save and iPhoto will open your new library. You can then move the exported photos to the trash and remove them from your original iPhoto library. Lastly, there is no way to designate a default iPhoto library. This becomes your default library, or the System Photo Library in Apple's parlance. You might logically conclude that Photos always opens the System Photo Library unless otherwise instructed, but the app instead opens the Last Opened library.

To choose a different library than the library you last opened, hold down the Option key when launching Photos. You can't merge libraries using Photos; you can only view them separately. If you decide at some point you'd like to pick a different photo library as your default library for Photos, you can do so by going to the General tab of Preferences and click the button Use as System Photo Library.

If you copy a Smart album from one Library to another, iPhoto Library Manager will create a standard album in the destination Library containing the photos present in the Smart album at the time of the copy. This ability to move albums and folders between Libraries means that you can use iPhoto Library Manager to manually merge multiple Libraries, or just parts of multiple Libraries, into a single Library or to split an existing Library into two smaller Libraries.

To accomplish the latter, you would create a new Library, transfer albums or folders to it, and then delete those albums or folders from the original Library. For example, I knew that once my daughter was born, I was going to take a lot of pictures, so I started a new iPhoto Library just for her. After a good number of sessions importing the same pictures into both Libraries, I decided I should just put all my family photos into a single Library.