Thanks Moe. I've been playing around with this, and I think it's actually working! I had to spend some time updating the desktop OS, so that I was running the same version of Photos on both computers. After doing that, I opened up my .photoslibrary file on the desktop. It took a few minutes to upgrade the library to the new version of Photos, but it worked, and all my photos were in their correct albums when the file fully opened. I had emailed myself a link, and I clicked that link from my MBP. It took a few seconds, but Sync opens a window with the folder I created, "Image Libraries." That name is a link, and when I click on it, another window opens up, and I can see the Photos file, "ProjectResource.photoslibrary." When I double-click on that, Photos opens on my MBP, and I can see all the albums in that library. I can choose a photo and export it to my MBP, where I can open it in Photoshop or drag it to the folder of the project I'm working on. I do want to be careful not to corrupt this library file, so I will probably only upload new photos and create new albums on the desktop. I'll also maintain a backup on the removable drive that used to be my main library file, and of course I have Time Machine running. But I'm excited about the possibilities!