Photo sharing in Photos for mac

I suspect I know the answer to these questions but I thought it was worth asking, as any improvement in the way I sort my photos would help - I seem to go round in circles a bit!!!
- Because my photo library is bigger than my iCloud allowance (I have paid for 20GB but I don't want to go beyond that) I have set up a new library which just shows my Favourites (formerly 5 star) photos and made this the system library so it backs up across all my devices.
I still have my complete photo library and if/when I get spare time, export all the non-Favourites out of the favourites library into my complete library.
Q1 - What is the simplest way to move photos from one library to another.
My wife has a separate iCloud account so as far as I can see needs to have a seperate system library
Q2 - is this correct?
Q3 is there any way that photos flagged as favourites in my wife's library could find there way into my favourites library? Is it something macScript can be used for?
The common link with the 3 libraries - Complete, favourites & the wife's are that they all are accessible through the same mac mini (but on different log ins)
Any thoughts on how the process could be stream lined, apart from the obvious put your hand in your pocket option!
Thanks
Duncan

I had a similar problem with a script to change description that I just gave up on.
I tried my script on a new small test library with just a few pictures in it and the script worked but when I tried it on my main library
that was migrated from iPhoto with 33K pictures I had no luck, same error.
So if your script works on a small test library you may consider the following:
It was suggested to me that my library may have corruption then told to First backup my Library then run a repair on it. Option + CMD and click on Photos.
This did NOT solve the error for me but maybe it will for you.
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