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I’m happy to announce the release of PowerPhotos 3.4.3, which rebuilds the way PowerPhotos works with iPhoto and Aperture libraries, along with a batch of bug fixes and improvements throughout the rest of the app. Faster iPhoto and Aperture libraries When Apple dropped support for migrating iPhoto/Aperture libraries to Photos several years ago, I added support to PowerPhotos that lets it read and…
PowerPhotos 3.4.2, which adds preliminary fixes for the first macOS 27 public, along with a fix crash/hing fixes. macOS 27 public beta 1 With PowerPhotos, I usually wait until the final release of an upcoming version of macOS until officially supporting it. The same holds this year, but the first beta had a couple major issues that I decided to address right away. There may still be any number of…
OK, I have a confession to make, I’ve been letting my crash reports languish for a while, unlooked at and unloved. But! I finally got my stuff together and have made a bunch of fixes to a few of the most common crashes, along with several more rare ones, and a few common causes of hangs. So, if you’ve been experiencing any crashiness, hopefully this release will help, and if you do still…
PowerPhotos 3.4 is out the door, and for this release I decided to focus on one of Photos’ fundamental features: albums. I feel like Apple kind of wishes albums would go away, trying to get people to use their various automated ways of surfacing photos, like Memories, Trips, Featured Photos and all the rest. Don’t get me wrong, some of these features can be handy, but sometimes there’s nothing…
I’m happy to announce the release of PowerPhotos 3.3.6, a free update that’s largely focused on bug fixes and stability improvements. This one was a big one behind the scenes — a lot of the work went into squashing some frustrating crashes and hangs, along with a few smaller refinements to make everyday tasks smoother. Here are the highlights. A fix for unexpected hangs If you’ve ever had…
I put out a small update today for PowerPhotos, bringing it up to version 3.3.5. This one’s a maintenance release, just a handful of bug fixes that have piled up since 3.3.4. If you ran into any of the issues below, this update is for you. PowerPhotos 3.3.5 is a free update for all registered PowerPhotos 3 users. You can download the latest version from the PowerPhotos website, or check for…
I’m happy to announce the release of PowerPhotos 3.3.4, which includes a number of bug fixes along with a new behind-the-scenes feature that should make a real difference for anyone working with large iCloud Photos libraries. Smarter handling of iCloud-optimized libraries If you use iCloud Photos with “Optimize Mac Storage” turned on, you’ve probably noticed that copying or exporting a large batch…
I’m happy to announce the release of PowerPhotos 3.3.2, which includes a handful of bug fixes along with a few improvements to how PowerPhotos handles renaming your photo libraries. A library by any other name PowerPhotos has always let you rename a library in its library list, but that rename only ever applied to the display name PowerPhotos showed for the library — the library’s actual file on…
I’m happy to announce the release of PowerPhotos 3.3.1, which includes a handful of bug fixes along with a couple of new features I think will come in handy. Delete after exporting PowerPhotos has long had a robust export feature that lets you export photos and albums out of a Photos library to a folder on disk. But if you’re exporting photos with the intention of removing them from your library…
PowerPhotos 3.3 is now available, and adds support for Apple’s Shortcuts app for the first time. Shortcuts This new release provides over 30 new actions for you to use in your shortcuts to help you manipulate the photos and albums in your Photos libraries. The actions aim to fill in the gaps not covered by the actions provided by Photos itself, as well as expanding to provide access to PowerPhotos…