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I keep trying to think of ways to use the Apple photo libraries as they have some features which are useful (titles, description, filtering, albums etc). But I don’t want everything in my iCloud library which is reserved for the subset which I want to be able to show and share. I prefer to process RAWs and scans elsewhere and then move the resulting jpeg (or increasingly jpegxl) file over to iCloud. Aperture could do these things of course but it is gone.
So I still retain a folder-based structure which Nitro can look into for processing. In fact I keep a small SSD with “working files” and then just move the xmp files back to the archive when finished.
I have tried using a second account on my main Mac where the system photo library is not connected to iCloud but this is clunky. Also having all photos in one library seems risky. And I have tried using referenced files too but these lack adequate tools for managing them so edits are easily lost when moving to a new drive.
So the ideal would be for Nitro to be able to handle other libraries. I understand that this is not allowed for App Store programs but it would be a very useful feature. Currently PowerPhotos from Fatcat software is the only thing I have found which can make multiple libraries workable. Of course it also leads to problems when one of my Macs can no longer be updated to the latest MacOS and the libraries become incompatible.
For now I will stick to using the file based archive. Maybe Apple will use the Pixelmator/Photomator team to improve library access in the future.
