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Q: iphoto to photos

Recently I rebuilt my entire computer. Re-installed the system. Before doing so I cloned my computer with super-duper. I had a lot of photos in iPhoto on my old system.

 

My new system is Yosemite and has the Photos app.

 

How do I import from the old iPhoto app on my back-up to the new photos app?

 

My old iPhoto was not using the cloud.

 

Thank you

MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.2)

Posted on May 6, 2015 1:29 PM

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  • by Old Toad,

    Old Toad Old Toad May 8, 2015 9:05 AM in response to jimoase
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    May 8, 2015 9:05 AM in response to jimoase

    It does work. Just be sure the album you're copying to is highlighted (Title Rename in the screenshot) before releasing.

     

    Photos001.jpg

  • by jimoase,

    jimoase jimoase May 8, 2015 3:18 PM in response to Old Toad
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    May 8, 2015 3:18 PM in response to Old Toad

    Old Toad wrote:

     

    It does work. Just be sure the album you're copying to is highlighted (Title Rename in the screenshot) before releasing.

     

    Photos001.jpg

    It appears I am not being clear about what I am trying to do.

     

    Lets see if this is a better expectation.   I have two Albums with different pictures of the same event.  I want Album A to contain all the pictures and Album B to disappear.   In the past it was simple, click on Album B and drag it over Album A and release.  Done deal.  Not any more, Album B will not drag to be on Album A, it will be placed along side Album A.

     

    Another version; some of the pictures in Album B need to be moved to Album A.  After highlighing the picture in Album B and dragging them to Album A and releasing the pictures are still in B.  Now I have two copies of the same pictures and an album I wanted removed still there.  Some would say it worked as advertised what else do you want?  I want my Thunderbird back, you can keep your Model T.

     

    IPhoto does all this intuitively.  The difference is iPhoto is a desktop application that is the synergistic result of years of developing intuitive human interfaces coupled with the power of multiple core processors to do elegant user operations with ease.  This kind of computing experience takes computing horsepower which mobile devices lack.  In response Apple is degrading decades of human interface elegance built in to the desktop experience to a level of more simplistic operations that mobile devices can do.  In that sense Apple has shifted its user inferface elegance to the lowest common denominator, the  weak mobile processor.

     

    In essence Apple has said they no longer need multiple core digital beasts to put in their desktop machines because weak kneed mobile devices are driving the ship.  Mail is also feeling the dumb down effect in its handling of junk mail.  I am not a Cloud user so I cannot speak to the degradation of other user experiences with other applications.  I am guessing the dumb down trend for desktop applications is across the board.

  • by R C-R,

    R C-R R C-R May 8, 2015 3:55 PM in response to jimoase
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    May 8, 2015 3:55 PM in response to jimoase

    jimoase wrote:

    IPhoto does all this intuitively.

    Actually, what you are describing works exactly the same in iPhoto as it does in Photos. (Try it & see.) The plus icon indicates this is an addition to an album, not a move from one album to another. And just as in iPhoto, adding something to an album does not create a new copy of it, it just adds it to the list of items that album contains.

     

    Also, in iPhoto dropping one album on another just creates an unnamed folder with both albums in it. (Again, try it.)

     

    None of this has anything significant to do with computing power. Basically, it is just changing properties in a database. It isn't duplicating files or doing anything else that requires appreciable CPU or file system resources.

  • by Old Toad,

    Old Toad Old Toad May 8, 2015 4:55 PM in response to jimoase
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    May 8, 2015 4:55 PM in response to jimoase

    I know what you're trying to do.  But now with Photos you have to open Album B, select all of the photos inside and drag them onto Album A's icon in the sidebar.  After assuring Album A has all of the photos you can delete  Album B.  We're in a different paradigm now and that's the workaround to use.

     

    If you can't get it to work then you're doing something wrong or you've got a damaged library.  Therefore as a test launch Photos with the Option key held down and create a new, test library.  Import some photos, create two album and test to see if the same problem persists. Does it?

  • by jimoase,

    jimoase jimoase May 8, 2015 10:09 PM in response to Old Toad
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    May 8, 2015 10:09 PM in response to Old Toad

    Old Toad wrote:

     

    I know what you're trying to do.  But now with Photos you have to open Album B, select all of the photos inside and drag them onto Album A's icon in the sidebar.  After assuring Album A has all of the photos you can delete  Album B.  We're in a different paradigm now and that's the workaround to use.

     

    If you can't get it to work then you're doing something wrong or you've got a damaged library.  Therefore as a test launch Photos with the Option key held down and create a new, test library.  Import some photos, create two album and test to see if the same problem persists. Does it?

    Sorry about not getting back to you sooner.    I did something that ate 16gigs of memory and looked for more.   As the saying goes, Poor day when you can't learn something.

     

    My "albums" are really events.  What's in a name anyway....

     

    To try moving one event into another as I often do on the Photo page I looked at the event and hit command A.  Then thinking I was dragging source to destination dragged and dropped.  The fans on my 2011 MBP kicked up a couple thousand turns immediately and nothing else worked.  After a bit the beach ball arrived on the scene and remained.  Thats my computers way of telling me to take a break.

     

    When I came back there was a running out of memory message suggesting I shut all other applications down.  I did and hit resume. 

     

    You have probably guessed what happened.  Select All did exactly that and turned bunch of events into one event.  I knew the task was complete when the fan noise decreased.   What happened had penentrated yet I just knew I messed up.

     

    Any way my Album A and Album B deal was really Event A and B.  Turns out I don't use albums much.  I have a few from many machines and years ago.   Did learn something about nesting albums that I have always wanted to do, thanks for the info.

     

    Its a busy weekend and my honey do list is overflowing.  It will probably be Wednesday before I get back to my favorite program to hate, Photo.  The look of system 10.10 still reminds me of Windows 1 or 2  with that faded pale look.

     

    Had lunch with some newspaper and printing people, they are avoiding 10.10 as if has the plague because their service providers have warned them.

     

    Any way thanks for your help... I will get back to you Wednesday late.

  • by jsharrow,

    jsharrow jsharrow May 11, 2015 6:31 AM in response to petermac87
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    May 11, 2015 6:31 AM in response to petermac87

    Thank you! This is the answer. When the window opened it showed my iPhoto libraries, and there were a few because I had multiple users. It's easy to figure out which user they belong to because the path is displayed when the library is highlighted. So, multiple libraries can be imported into photos.

     

    After a quick scan through the images in photos I noticed some were duplicated. I'm not sure if that was an issue that was in iPhoto and I just imported duplicated for if Photos duplicated images ... looking into that now.

     

    The option key was my missing link to migration ... THANK YOU!

  • by Csound1,

    Csound1 Csound1 May 11, 2015 6:30 AM in response to jimoase
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    May 11, 2015 6:30 AM in response to jimoase

    jimoase wrote:

     

     

    If I plug in my camera Photo is going to come up.  Not by my choice.  There are comments like that for each of the other products I mentioned.

    Why don't you reset it so that iPhoto opens, it's your choice.

  • by petermac87,

    petermac87 petermac87 May 11, 2015 1:42 PM in response to jsharrow
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    May 11, 2015 1:42 PM in response to jsharrow

    You are most welcome.

     

    Happy Computing

     

    Pete

  • by jimoase,

    jimoase jimoase May 11, 2015 5:22 PM in response to Csound1
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    May 11, 2015 5:22 PM in response to Csound1

    Csound1 wrote:

     

    jimoase wrote:

     

     

    If I plug in my camera Photo is going to come up.  Not by my choice.  There are comments like that for each of the other products I mentioned.

    Why don't you reset it so that iPhoto opens, it's your choice.

    I never set iPhoto or Photo to open when my camera was plugged in.  My choice, made years ago, was not to have iPhoto open when I plugged my camera.  Installing 10.10.3 changed my choice from open nothing to open Photo.

     

    By the way Csound1 are you living in England or Chicago today?

  • by petermac87,

    petermac87 petermac87 May 11, 2015 5:21 PM in response to jimoase
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    May 11, 2015 5:21 PM in response to jimoase

    You will need to start your own thread. This one has been resolved successfully.

     

    Cheers

     

    Pete

  • by jimoase,

    jimoase jimoase May 11, 2015 5:25 PM in response to petermac87
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    May 11, 2015 5:25 PM in response to petermac87

    petermac87 wrote:

     

    You will need to start your own thread. This one has been resolved successfully.

     

    Cheers

     

    Pete

    Is this your discussion site?

     

    Who are you to decide if I think the problem is resolved?

     

    Without a doubt you have your own opinion.

  • by petermac87,

    petermac87 petermac87 May 11, 2015 5:35 PM in response to jimoase
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    May 11, 2015 5:35 PM in response to jimoase

    jimoase wrote:

     

    petermac87 wrote:

     

    You will need to start your own thread. This one has been resolved successfully.

     

    Cheers

     

    Pete

    Is this your discussion site?

     

    Who are you to decide if I think the problem is resolved?

     

    Without a doubt you have your own opinion.

    It is not your thread. You just butted in on it to try to take it over. The reality is that it has been solved for the Original Poster, which is the goal of opening the post. Get it? Now they have marked it as being resolved. You do not come into the equation. You need your own thread noew to get attention for your own issues.

     

    Terms Of Use

     

    Good Luck

     

    Pete

  • by Csound1,

    Csound1 Csound1 May 11, 2015 6:52 PM in response to jimoase
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    May 11, 2015 6:52 PM in response to jimoase

    jimoase wrote:

     

    Csound1 wrote:

     

    jimoase wrote:

     

     

    If I plug in my camera Photo is going to come up.  Not by my choice.  There are comments like that for each of the other products I mentioned.

    Why don't you reset it so that iPhoto opens, it's your choice.

    I never set iPhoto or Photo to open when my camera was plugged in.  My choice, made years ago, was not to have iPhoto open when I plugged my camera.  Installing 10.10.3 changed my choice from open nothing to open Photo.

     

    By the way Csound1 are you living in England or Chicago today?

    Something else you don't know Jimbo?

  • by jimoase,

    jimoase jimoase May 11, 2015 6:57 PM in response to petermac87
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    May 11, 2015 6:57 PM in response to petermac87

    petermac87 wrote:

     

    ....... You just butted in on it to try to take it over.

    As a friend of mine often said  "You are assuming facts not yet in evidence". 

     

    My initial response about my experiences, once the iPhoto library was converted to Photo, expanded on one of the previous comments with my experiences.  That led to other questions which I answered.  My answers had to do with what I called "albums" operation when in fact I was talking about "events" in iPhoto, something that seems to be missing from Photo.  In the process of following the suggestions, of someone other than you,  I screwed up my entire iPhoto library and sent in a comment about that problem immediately.  Also stating that it will probably be Wednesday before I can make an appropriate reply to the person's instructions.

     

    You may not have liked my answers.  You opinion is your choice.  If you don't like my answers, leave the keyboard alone, I wasn't having a conversation with you anyway.

  • by petermac87,

    petermac87 petermac87 May 11, 2015 7:03 PM in response to jimoase
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    May 11, 2015 7:03 PM in response to jimoase

    As I said, this thread is resolved, no matter what you think.

     

    Have a pleasant day and try to be nice to someone.

     

    Cheers

     

    Pete

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