Changes in Photos 6 Big Sur - RhetTbull/osxphotos GitHub Wiki

Changes in Big Sur Photos from Catalina

  • Full diff of schema changes

  • Non-jpeg files (.heic, .png, etc) that are edited are saved as .heic

    • /Users/rhet/Pictures/Test-10.16.0.photoslibrary/resources/renders/7/7783E8E6-9CAC-40F3-BE22-81FB7051C266_1_201_a.heic

  • ZGENERICASSET table is now ZASSET

  • Tables/columns for album join to find album details are now:

    • "ALBUM_JOIN": "Z_26ASSETS.Z_3ASSETS"
    • "ALBUM_SORT_ORDER": "Z_26ASSETS.Z_FOK_3ASSETS"

  • Version in photos.db:LiGlobals.libraryVersion remains at 6000 (same version as Photos 5) so instead look at Photos.sqlite to find model version:

    • SELECT MAX(Z_VERSION), Z_PLIST FROM Z_METADATA then look for PLModelVersion in the plist data.
      • _PHOTOS_5_MODEL_VERSION = [13000, 13999]
      • _PHOTOS_6_MODEL_VERSION = [14000, 14999]

See also changes from 16.0 to 16.0.1.