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Q: Updating iPhoto 8.1.2

Hello fellow Mac users.  I am having a lot of trouble updating my iPhoto and need some advice.  I have a MacBook Pro from 2009 running OSX 10.6.8.  It came with iLife and iPhoto 8.1.2.  A few months ago the Places feature in iPhoto stopped working and I can no longer search for new locations to tag my photos.  I tried to update iPhoto but it seems iPhoto 9 is not available for download on the Apple website.  There are later versions, which I tried to download, but you can't run those without updating to iPhoto 9 first.  Does anyone know how I can obtain a copy of iPhoto 9, legally if possible?  Failing that, any advice to get the Places feature working again?  I do know that I can't run the very latest versions of iPhoto without updating my OS, which I plan to do eventually.  Any advice greatly appreciated as the Places feature was my favourite part of iPhoto.  Thank you

iPhoto '11, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on May 29, 2014 1:30 PM

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  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie May 29, 2014 1:38 PM in response to chien andalou
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    May 29, 2014 1:38 PM in response to chien andalou

    iPhoto 9

    Are you asking about iPhoto 9.x.y, as part of the iLife '11 bundle, or iPhoto '09, as part of iLIfe '09?

     

    Assuming, you wat to upgrade to the most current  version, you canbuy iPhoto '11, version 9.x.y, y buying the boxed reatail version if iLife '11 from Amazon. This will install an early iPhoto '11 version, that you can update from the Downloads support page.

  • by chien andalou,

    chien andalou chien andalou May 29, 2014 1:45 PM in response to léonie
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    May 29, 2014 1:45 PM in response to léonie

    Thanks for your help.  I meant iPhoto 9.0, part of iLife '11.  So if I buy iLife '11 on Amazon, it will only update to 9.0 (not 9.1.x)?  The problem I was having was the currently available versions can only be updated from 9.0.  If that is the case I think that is my problem solved- thanks!

  • by Old Toad,

    Old Toad Old Toad May 29, 2014 4:55 PM in response to chien andalou
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    May 29, 2014 4:55 PM in response to chien andalou

    I meant iPhoto 9.0, part of iLife '11.  So if I buy iLife '11 on Amazon, it will only update to 9.0 (not 9.1.x)?

    After installing iPhoto 9.0 from the iLife 11 disk you can update it to the latest version that will run on your 10.6.8  system, v9.2.3, via these updaters:

     

    1. update to iPhoto 2.1
    2. update to iPhoto 9.2.1
    3. update to iPhoto 9.2.3

     

     

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