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Jun 1, 2015 10:24 AM in response to Terence Devlinby lescornwell,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.
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Jun 1, 2015 10:51 AM in response to lescornwellby Terence Devlin,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.
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Jun 1, 2015 10:58 AM in response to Terence Devlinby lescornwell,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.
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Jun 1, 2015 11:14 AM in response to Terence Devlinby negentropic,| 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.
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Jun 1, 2015 12:13 PM in response to lescornwellby Terence Devlin,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
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.
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Jun 1, 2015 12:39 PM in response to Terence Devlinby negentropic,| 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.
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Jun 23, 2015 10:17 AM in response to larryluby thisisjust9,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.
It's amazing that such a simple issue got such complicated replies and responses from the so called "Mac users". :-)
Cheers.
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Jun 23, 2015 10:30 AM in response to thisisjust9by Allan Eckert,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.
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Jun 23, 2015 11:12 AM in response to Allan Eckertby thisisjust9,Anything in this thread for a kind of the Photos 'Aperture-like' capabilities for you, maybe?
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Jun 23, 2015 11:22 AM in response to thisisjust9by Allan Eckert,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.
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Jun 23, 2015 12:42 PM in response to Allan Eckertby Booberoi,I deleted Photo and use iPhoto 9.6.1 - works perfectly
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Jun 23, 2015 12:43 PM in response to thisisjust9by Booberoi,I deleted Photo and use iPhoto 9.6.1 - works perfectly
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Jun 24, 2015 9:50 AM in response to thisisjust9by christopher rigby1,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.
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by Terence Devlin,Jun 24, 2015 10:44 AM in response to christopher rigby1
Terence Devlin
Jun 24, 2015 10:44 AM
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iLifeiPhoto continues to work in exactly the same way in 10.10.3. SO I'm not sure which Mac users you are referring to.
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Jun 24, 2015 2:14 PM in response to Terence Devlinby christopher rigby1,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.
