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Longroad15
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November 29, 2019
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Your selection does not appear to be an iPhoto library message

  • November 29, 2019
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I purchased a new iMac and am running the new Catalina OS.  I uploaded a bunch of pictures from several SD cards to my photos library.  When trying to run the plug-in extras to import photos from my iphoto library i get the message saying Your selection does not appear to be an iPhoto library (the importer plug-in expects version 9.5.1 or newer).  I'm stuck and can't figure out how to access these photos in Lightroom Classic.

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Rob_Cullen
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Rob_CullenCommunity Expert
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November 29, 2019

Mac iPhotos App and Photos App are two different Apps!

Lightroom-Classic does not have a Plugin for the 'newer' Photos App, which is why (I suspect) you are getting the error message. (Me- a Windows-PC person)

I can only refer you to links that can be of assistance to 'extract' the master image files from the Photos Library-

https://www.lightroomqueen.com/community/threads/importing-into-lr-from-photos-on-an-external-hard-drive.34138/

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic/can-photos-stored-in-the-new-apple-photos-be-quickly-transferred-to-lightroom-i-am-not-at-all-happy/td-p/7015445

Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.1.1, Photoshop 27.3.1, ACR 18.1.1, Lightroom 9.0, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.2 .
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    Jao vdLCommunity Expert
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    November 29, 2019

    You don't want to use the built-in photos app when importing photos. You want to directly import into Lightroom Classic. Just ignore the Photos app that pops up when you insert a card or connect a camera but use the Lightroom importer. Click it away and hit import in Lightroom. There is a way to prevent Photos or the image capture app from popping up. Here is an explainer I found in a quick google:

    https://www.idownloadblog.com/2015/12/28/how-to-stop-photos-mac-auto-launch/

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