Photos app doesn't import photo labels

When I imported my iPhoto library to the Photos app, all the original photo labels from my cameras disappeared. How do I get them back? Is there a setting I needed to make at the time of the import?

Make sure the drive is formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
1. Quit Photos
2. Copy the Photos Library from your Pictures Folder to the External Disk.
Now you have two full versions of the Library.
3. On the Internal library, trash the Events you don't want there
Now you have a full copy of the Library on the External and a smaller subset on the Internal
Some Notes:
As a general rule: when deleting photos do them in batches of about 100 at a time. iPhoto can baulk at trashing large numbers at one go.
You can choose which Library to open: Hold down the option (or alt) key key and launch iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library'
My personal take - fwiw - is to move to Lightroom.
Export the Jpegs at High Quality and write the tags to them. That ill leave you only having to tag the Raws in LR.
In LR you can have all your Masters on the external... And still edit by means of its Smart Preview feature even if you're not connected to the disk. Yes it costs more but you have more options that might meet your needs a little better.

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