I created a new album in photos but it is not showing up in selected albums to sync

Hi Tony,

the library is on an external drive formatted as Mac Journaled

so I tried a brand new drive and formatted it as AFPS and copied the library onto it. Same results. This morning I copied the library to my internal drive.

no luck. I repaired the library (took forever). No luck.

I tried plugging in my iPhone instead the iPad…. When I select it on the left panel in the finder and then select photos, I see the albums in my library…. Just not any of the new albums.

it’s almost like I need to delete the file that tells the finder to read or update the list of albums in photos. It’s been hard to search for help online. The search word photos brings up unrelated photo issues.

the library in question is 124gb if that helps.

Tried restarting in safe mode. - iphone or ipad won't appear at all in side panel.

Tried creating a new user - iphone or ipad won't appear at all in side panel

When I was in the new user, booting normal, the ipad appeared again. And, when I select "photos" on the mac, I could see a different list of options. Basically nothing. it's a new user with blank photos library. When I quit photos, and relauched holding option, and selected the library on th external drive, then restarted. I could see the list of all the libraries (but not my new ones from this week).

I'm wondering, is there a way to create a new library? and import albums from the old one?

I did try repairing the library... so maybe it's the library file that is corrupt?

I wish I know which folder in the library or system has preference files to delete. I'd love to try that, but don't know which files to delete.

Yes! Problem solved! This worked. Thank you.

Summary: When I launch Photos holding option, and select my desired library on the external drive. Once it opens, I open preferences and click on the button to make it my system library. Now when I plug in my phone or ipad, and select that ipad or iphone in on the left window plane in the finder, and it displays the information. I then select the photos tab, and it displays the CORRECT albums! Thank you so much!