Table of Contents

1. Introduction
1. Installation
2. System Requirements
3. Registering PowerPhotos
4. About Photos libraries
5. Moving from iPhoto Library Manager to PowerPhotos
2. Managing Photos libraries
1. Creating a new library
2. Adding an existing library
3. Removing a library
4. Duplicating a library
5. Moving a library
6. Renaming a library
7. Accessing a Photos library on another Mac
3. Using your Photos libraries
1. Opening a library
2. About the System Photo Library
3. Using iCloud Photos with PowerPhotos
4. Using a digital camera with multiple libraries
5. Storing libraries on cloud services such as Dropbox or iCloud Drive
4. Browsing your Photos libraries
1. Grid view
2. List view
3. Viewing full size photos
4. The information pane
5. Searching for photos
6. Multi-library search
7. Creating an album of photos
8. Browsing tips and tricks
5. Finding duplicate photos
1. Find Duplicates overview
2. Starting a duplicate search
3. Duplicate comparison options
4. Choosing keepers with duplicate rules
5. Browsing your duplicates
6. Criteria details
7. Performing actions on duplicate photos
8. Changing duplicate actions manually
9. Deleting your duplicate photos
1. Deleting duplicates from the "PowerPhotos nonkeepers" album
2. Deleting duplicates marked with a keyword
10. Duplicate tips and tricks
6. Copying between Photos libraries
1. Copying albums and moments
2. Copying individual photos
3. Importing new photos into a library
4. Merging libraries
5. Previewing your copying
6. Handling duplicates when copying
7. Copying limitations
8. Copying and merging with iCloud Photos
9. Moving photos instead of copying
10. Log files
7. Migrating iPhoto and Aperture libraries
8. Frequently asked questions
1. Restoring photos from Time Machine
2. Storing a library on an external drive
3. Splitting a library into smaller libraries
4. Creating a new library using photos not already in Photos
5. Undoing photo deletions
6. Sharing a library between multiple user accounts on one Mac
7. Merging libraries from multiple Macs
8. How to merge an iPhoto library with a Photos library
9. Troubleshooting
1. PowerPhotos not seeing all photos for a library
2. Reduced library size after merging
3. System library fails to load
4. Allowing PowerPhotos to control the Photos app
5. The library database is locked
6. Incomplete merge due to Photos crashes or other errors
7. Find Duplicates seems to be missing some duplicate photos
10. Preferences
11. Support
12. Release Notes