# Photos
**URL:** https://forums.plex.tv/t/photos/170089
**Category:** General Discussions
**Created:** [December 7, 2016, 3:56am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/photos/170089 "2016-12-07T03:56:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@Dharms](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Dharms)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2016, 3:56am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/photos/170089/1 "2016-12-07T03:56:31Z")
Hi Plex. How do I add pictures from the default Photos App in my Mac OS X to Plex?
Thank you
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### Author:  [@anon18523487](https://forums.plex.tv/u/anon18523487)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2016, 3:44am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/photos/170089/2 "2016-12-08T03:44:16Z")
If your Mac is the same as your PMS server, create a photo library and point it to the folder where the photo app saves.
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### Author:  [@Dharms](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Dharms)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2016, 7:53am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/photos/170089/3 "2016-12-10T07:53:58Z")
I’ve done that it doesn’t work. The photo library had some generic system files in it.
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### Author:  [@anon18523487](https://forums.plex.tv/u/anon18523487)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2016, 8:17am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/photos/170089/4 "2016-12-10T08:17:58Z")
Can you expand on what doesn’t actually work? PMS should ignore any files that isn’t an actual photo.
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### Author:  [@Dharms](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Dharms)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2016, 9:01am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/photos/170089/5 "2016-12-10T09:01:42Z")
Yea in the photo library app there us no actual photos. I’m telling about the default photos app in macOS. Previously used to be iPhoto. Now it’s photos
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### Author:  [@anon18523487](https://forums.plex.tv/u/anon18523487)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2016, 9:42am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/photos/170089/6 "2016-12-10T09:42:15Z")
I don’t use iOS so I might be missing something here, but doesn’t the app save the pictures into a directory on your hard drive. You just need to have your PMS photo library point to the same folder.
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### Author:  [@Dharms](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Dharms)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2016, 7:47am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/photos/170089/7 "2016-12-11T07:47:39Z")
no the folder for that app has no picture file in it
its the default Photos app in macOS…would u be able to find this out for m
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### Author:  [@BigWheel](https://forums.plex.tv/u/BigWheel)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2016, 8:17am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/photos/170089/8 "2016-12-11T08:17:18Z")
Photos app stores everything in a package file called `Photos Library.photoslibrary` The location of originals are inside that . Likely here which i think is default `~/Pictures/Photos Library.photoslibrary/Masters` but you can find out in the preferences of the app where it says Library Location ( I don’t actually use the Photos.app myself)
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### Author:  [@Dharms](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Dharms)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2016, 10:23am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/photos/170089/9 "2016-12-11T10:23:20Z")
yes I’ve tried that…but its uploading into plex very disorganised way … (one picture one folder) and not as per how the folders in my photos app…so its messy that way as well as pointless cause I can search for the pics I want…thank you for the responses so far
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### Author:  [@Dharms](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Dharms)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2017, 7:49am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/photos/170089/10 "2017-01-05T07:49:36Z")
so that’s the response I got from plex. they don’t support
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2020, 10:21pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/photos/170089/11 "2020-01-07T22:21:30Z")