Q: upgrade iphoto libraties to iphoto 9.6
I have several photo libraries created by iphoto 8.1.2 and currently i purchased a new macbook with yosemite and i photo 9.6.
when I try to upgrade the libraries, the iphoto 9.6 crashes? do you know how to upgrade the libraries from iphoto 8.1.2 to iphoto 9.6
to keep enjoying the libraries?
MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.5)
Posted on Oct 25, 2014 10:56 AM
Hi léonie
Thanks, I didn't know it was not supported, as it has been working very well for the past 5 years
with iphoto 8.1.2.There was no way to store all this amount of photos in the Macbook, and
I just created the libraries into the time capsule using iphoto 8.1.2. or earlier versions.
To backup the time capsule libraries I use to just copy the libraries directly into another hard drive.
Tomorrow I will buy a USB cable to connect Time Machine directly by cable with the new
MacBook Pro (Retina) with OX yosemite 10.10 and iphoto 9.6
and I will let you know if I can upgrade the libraries this way, or directly from the Time capsule folders,
or by copying the libraries to the MacBook hard drive and trying to upgrade them from there.
I'll let you know next week
Thank you very much.
Best
Ramon
I am using the time capsule
just as a hard drive to store the i-photo libraries, to free space in my computer.
But Time Capsules is a network volume and not directly connected. And neither is the filesystem on a Time Capsule MacOS Extended (Journaled). You are storing the iPhoto Libraries on a volume, that is not supported for iPhoto.
Before you use any iPhoto library, move it to a directly connected drive, formatted MAcOS Extended (Journaled). You are risking data loss on a drive with a different file system or a network drive.
And how are you backing up the libraries on the Time Capsule? Time Machine cannot back them up, if they are on the Time Machine drive.
but I can open all of them with iphoto 8.1.2.
and it is working fine.
You have been very lucky. iPhoto 8.1.2 did not check the file system for compatibility and just opened the libraries, but that may have resulted in library corruption. It is just not safe.
Apple says: Use locally mounted Mac OS X Extended volumes for your Aperture library , and this holds for iPhoto Libraries as well, since both apps can share their libraries.
Or see this link: iPhoto: Issues with FAT32-formatted drives
Note the last sentence:
Additionally, storing the iPhoto library on a network rather than locally on your computer can also lead to poor performance or data loss.
Resolution
Posted on Oct 26, 2014 11:26 AM