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The $30 PowerPhotos from Fat Cat Software provides a variety of extra capabilities when working with Photos. Needless to say, make sure you have good backups first! Merge with PowerPhotos When youвЂ™re done, the last Photos library becomes the one youвЂ™ll keep, and you can delete the others. Once the photos have all uploaded, go back to Step 1 with your next Photos library. A Pause link will appear there during uploading-click it if you need to keep Photos from overwhelming your Internet connection. Scroll to the bottom of the Photos view to see the progress. (If itвЂ™s dimmed out, that library is already set as the System Photo Library.)

In Photos > Preferences > General, click Use as System Photo Library.

Double-click the Photos library to open it.

Now, starting with the smallest Photos library and working up in size, follow these steps for each library you want to merge: If you havenвЂ™t previously used iCloud Photos, go to System Preferences > iCloud and click the Options button next to Photo.

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Plus, it will probably download the entire cloud-based collection of photos to each library whose photos you want to merge, so you may need a lot of local disk space too. If you havenвЂ™t already started using it, it could take a week or more to upload many thousands of photos. More problematic is that the iCloud Photos way of merging will be very slow.

iCloud Photos is a good service, so itвЂ™s likely worth paying for anyway. Almost everyone will have to pay for additional storage space ($0.99 per month for 50 GB, $2.99 for 200 GB, or $9.99 for 2 TB) for at least the month in which youвЂ™re doing the merge.

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On the downside, using iCloud Photos almost certainly wonвЂ™t be free unless you have so few photos that the combined library will fit within the free 5 GB of iCloud space Apple gives everyone. It also retains all the metadata surrounding your photos-titles, keywords, albums, facial recognition, projects, and more. The trick is that whenever you designate a library as your System Photo Library, Photos automatically uploads all images that arenвЂ™t already present, adding them to the photos already in iCloud Photos. Merge through iCloud PhotosДЄppleвЂ™s iCloud Photos service offers the best solution for merging libraries. You have three options: merging through iCloud Photos, using the PowerPhotos utility, and merging by exporting and importing. Unfortunately, the process is slow, can require a lot of disk space, and may result in the loss of some metadata. If you struggle with multiple Photos libraries, never fear-you can merge them. But too much separation is annoying-you have to keep switching between libraries, and itвЂ™s easy to import new photos into the wrong one. For instance, a real estate agent might want to keep personal photos separate from house photos taken for work. ThatвЂ™s good when photos need to be kept completely separate. Photos makes it easy to create and switch between libraries.