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Q: Updated to 10.10.3 and now iPhoto won't open

I upgraded the OS 10.10.3 and now iPhoto won't open. It says "the version of iPhoto installed on this Mac is not compatible with OS X Yosemite.  Download the latest version for free from the Mac App Store."  However, when I go to the Mac App Store, there is no iPhoto.

 

I don't know what version of iPhoto I was running. I believe it was the most recent (9.6)

 

I also noticed that the iPhoto icon has a circle with a line through it Screen Shot 2015-04-09 at 10.08.45 AM.png

 

The support article says I can use iPhoto concurrently with the new photos

Posted on Apr 9, 2015 10:10 AM

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  • by lescornwell,

    lescornwell lescornwell Jun 1, 2015 10:24 AM in response to Terence Devlin
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    Jun 1, 2015 10:24 AM in response to Terence Devlin

    I never supposed you were on Apple's payroll, but such an answer would suggest this.

    I don't like this reply at all, which seems so 'American' and 'arrogant' (but not intelligent at all) as I used to know (most of) my overseas colleagues.

     

    Personally, I ALWAYS keep my software up to date, but I ran into the same 'iPhoto 9.6 won't open' trap as many of fellow Apple users before me.

    There is a solution to this problem, but the problem itself should have been avoided from the start.

  • by Terence Devlin,

    Terence Devlin Terence Devlin Jun 1, 2015 10:51 AM in response to lescornwell
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    Jun 1, 2015 10:51 AM in response to lescornwell

    Well first: I wasn't talking to you.

     

    Second. What I said was true - the 9.6.1 update was released prior to 10.10.3, on March 19th

     

    http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/apples-iphoto-9.6.1-gets-ready-for-photos -migration

     

    10.10.3 was released on April 8th.

     

    There is a simple logical implication from this: the person posting was not up-to-date. I really don't see any other logical implication. As you also fell into this trap then the very obvious implication is that you're not as up-to-date as you thought either. Perhaps you need to review your strategies for keeping up to date? I don't know. I do know that I did run the update when it was released, and I was actually up-to-date.

     

    My comments were directed at the implication in the post that somehow Apple were guilty of sharp practice. That there was some trickery to force users towards the new app. I responded to that because it causes uncertainty and doubt in user's minds. It's a common trope, that computer makers are always up to some skulduggery to force you to to buy a new app. That the app is free and requires no purchase, and that the update was released two weeks before being needed, pretty much blows that out of the water. But it's important that other users are not upset by this kind of claptrap. As long as I have been using computers I've seen that kind of commentary. I simply cannot recall a single incident where I felt it was true, and the application of actual facts failed to demonstrate the opposite.

     

    Apart from the quite offensive implication in your post that Americans are arrogant (and did you think using 'inverted commas' somehow absolved you of that?), I am not American, I don't live in the Americas, North or South, I don't work for Apple, I own no shares in Apple. When I post here it's to help others. That can be when they have an issue I have some knowledge about, but I also step in when I see that kind of clueless commentary.

     

    There is a solution, it was available before the new app was released. It's still available.

  • by lescornwell,

    lescornwell lescornwell Jun 1, 2015 10:58 AM in response to Terence Devlin
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    Jun 1, 2015 10:58 AM in response to Terence Devlin

    You talking to me? You talking to me?

     

    Sorry if I offended you, because that was never my intention.

    It was my intention, however, to point out that this ESSENTIAL iPhoto upgrade from 9.6 to 9.6.1 (what are we really talking about, since we all know that iPhoto is dead?), might have been mentioned in the link to Macobserver you give (thanks for that), but never by Apple itself. I myself read quite a lot of Apple literature, but (in Europe) have never really explored the link you supplied.

     

    Any way: the solution is clear. Keep repeating that instead of blaming the Apple users who walked into the trap, because in that case, you ARE talking to me.

  • by negentropic,

    negentropic negentropic Jun 1, 2015 11:14 AM in response to Terence Devlin
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    Jun 1, 2015 11:14 AM in response to Terence Devlin

    | Perhaps you're not as up-to-date as you thought...

     

    By "up to date" I meant that I install every update that Apple pushes, and that I had a clear list of pending updates before choosing to install 10.10.3. I did not mean to imply that I do every update as it comes out; in fact, I usually delay a while on purpose, on my production machine, for occasions just like this where something changes and needs addressing to resume "normal" operation.

     

    When the iPhoto update to run it under 10.10.3 was released doesn't matter that much -- the key, for myself and it appears at least some others here -- is that it never appeared for me as a recommended update. Since I had iPhoto installed (and active) at the time I updated to 10.10.3, I would have expected at least some sort of notification that it wouldn't work after updating. Or, when it failed to work, some hint as to why and how to fix the problem within OS X, without having to resort to searching here and using the workaround you provided.

     

    Conversely, just after my last comment here, 10.10.3 sent me a helpful (or aggravating) prompt to try out the new Photos app.

  • by Terence Devlin,

    Terence Devlin Terence Devlin Jun 1, 2015 12:13 PM in response to lescornwell
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    Jun 1, 2015 12:13 PM in response to lescornwell
    It was my intention, however, to point out that this ESSENTIAL iPhoto upgrade from 9.6 to 9.6.1 (what are we really talking about, since we all know that iPhoto is dead?), might have been mentioned in the link to Macobserver you give (thanks for that), but never by Apple itself.

     

    http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/6970/iphoto

    https://www.powerpage.org/apple-releases-iphoto-9-6-1-update-works-to-pave-trans ition-to-iphotos-for-os-x-app/

    http://www.123macmini.com/news/story/2150.html

    http://www.mactech.com/2015/03/19/apple-releases-iphoto-961-mac-os-x

    http://9to5mac.com/2015/03/19/yosemite-security-update-3/

     

    You still think Apple never mentioned it? That's from the first page of a google search. I wonder who  put the update on the Mac App Store along with the Release notes that accompany every update?


    That's how Apple communicates every update. I'm in Europe too, and somehow I found out. Oh yes, Software Update told me.

  • by negentropic,

    negentropic negentropic Jun 1, 2015 12:39 PM in response to Terence Devlin
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    Jun 1, 2015 12:39 PM in response to Terence Devlin

    | Oh yes, Software Update told me.

     

    I realize you were replying to someone else here, but your last line gets to my point: Software Update didn't tell me. Or, it told me and then the notification/prompt/ability to update to 9.6.1 went away before I could act on it. And there was no prompt or warning that iPhoto would break in 10.10.3, and no obvious way to get it without rolling back the update.

  • by thisisjust9,

    thisisjust9 thisisjust9 Jun 23, 2015 10:17 AM in response to larrylu
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    Jun 23, 2015 10:17 AM in response to larrylu

    The reason for this is because you don't need iPhoto once you installed OS X Yosemite. You just need Photos, a new application introduce in 10.10.3.

    Check this: http://9to5mac.com/2015/04/10/os-x-yosemite-how-to-move-your-iphoto-or-aperture- library-to-photos/comment-page-2/

     

    It's amazing that such a simple issue got such complicated replies and responses from the so called "Mac users". :-)

     

    Cheers.

  • by Allan Eckert,

    Allan Eckert Allan Eckert Jun 23, 2015 10:30 AM in response to thisisjust9
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    Jun 23, 2015 10:30 AM in response to thisisjust9

    What are you talking about?

     

    The upgrade to 10.10.3 does not delete iPhoto. You just must have to latest version to use it.

     

    Also many users are finding that Photos is such a poor application that they rather not use it for their photos.

     

    Or as in my case where I used Aperture, Photos is not capable of replacing Aperture for me so I am looking at completely dropping all of the Apple photographic solution for third party solution just so that I can continue to work.

  • by thisisjust9,

    thisisjust9 thisisjust9 Jun 23, 2015 11:12 AM in response to Allan Eckert
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    Jun 23, 2015 11:12 AM in response to Allan Eckert

    Anything in this thread for a kind of the Photos 'Aperture-like' capabilities for you, maybe?

    Aperture photo editing capability gone

  • by Allan Eckert,

    Allan Eckert Allan Eckert Jun 23, 2015 11:22 AM in response to thisisjust9
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    Jun 23, 2015 11:22 AM in response to thisisjust9

    No. As far as I am concerned Photos is a toy. It is the iPhone app recoded to run on the Mac and as such is worthless.

  • by Booberoi,

    Booberoi Booberoi Jun 23, 2015 12:42 PM in response to Allan Eckert
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    Jun 23, 2015 12:42 PM in response to Allan Eckert

    I deleted Photo and use iPhoto 9.6.1 - works perfectly

  • by Booberoi,

    Booberoi Booberoi Jun 23, 2015 12:43 PM in response to thisisjust9
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    Jun 23, 2015 12:43 PM in response to thisisjust9

    I deleted Photo and use iPhoto 9.6.1 - works perfectly

  • by christopher rigby1,

    christopher rigby1 christopher rigby1 Jun 24, 2015 9:50 AM in response to thisisjust9
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    Jun 24, 2015 9:50 AM in response to thisisjust9

    As all   " " " " " Mac Users " " " " "   round here know, iPhoto worked perfectly in Yosemite until 10.10.3 - and as many have remarked, and is the reason for threads like this - Photo is not an improvement on iPhoto. In fact, with the loss of Events, it is worse.

     

    If you have constructive advice, we'll be glad to hear it. "Advising" a user something that they clearly already know, is not constructive.

  • by Terence Devlin,

    Terence Devlin Terence Devlin Jun 24, 2015 10:44 AM in response to christopher rigby1
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    Jun 24, 2015 10:44 AM in response to christopher rigby1

    iPhoto continues to work in exactly the same way in 10.10.3. SO I'm not sure which Mac users you are referring to.

  • by christopher rigby1,

    christopher rigby1 christopher rigby1 Jun 24, 2015 2:14 PM in response to Terence Devlin
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    Jun 24, 2015 2:14 PM in response to Terence Devlin

    Terence Devlin wrote:

     

    iPhoto continues to work in exactly the same way in 10.10.3. SO I'm not sure which Mac users you are referring to.

     

    Tell that to thisisjust9, who seems to think that Photos replaced iPhoto and that we should all just "move on" (see above).

     

    The """""Mac Users""""" I'm referring to (note my satirical echo of his wiggly finger quotes) are the ones in his head.

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