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mauricio san francisco

Q: Photos did not make iPhoto Albums from my Events.

I was using iPhoto happily and had avoided the update to Photos.  But in the latest update I opened and it asked to use Photos and I didn't think much about it.  After it finished updating the library, Photos did not create iPhone Albums from my iPhoto Events.  I know that there is a sidebar where the albums appear.  Checked there and nope, they were not created.  I tried going back to iPhoto and it won't read the Photos library.  Is there any way to recover that Events data?  I have hundreds of names, locations, etc. that are not in the Metadata of the photo files as they were taken in a dSLR.

Any help on how to recover/regenerate the events into albums or how to get it back to iPhoto. 

 

Thanks for your help.

 

Mauricio

MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.4)

Posted on Jul 23, 2015 12:03 PM

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  • by LarryHN,

    LarryHN LarryHN Jul 23, 2015 1:02 PM in response to mauricio san francisco
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    Jul 23, 2015 1:02 PM in response to mauricio san francisco

    yes it should have created albums for each event and they are in a folder in Photos named iPhoto events

     

    You can continue to use iPhoto or you can migrate the iPhoto library again (launch Photos while holding the option key down and select the iPhoto library to migrate and open)

     

    LN

  • by mauricio san francisco,

    mauricio san francisco mauricio san francisco Jul 24, 2015 6:44 PM in response to LarryHN
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    Jul 24, 2015 6:44 PM in response to LarryHN

    Hi Larry,

     

    Thanks for taking the time to answer.  The problem is that it did not.  There are no albums at all other than the default ones.  No iPhoto events albums at all.  It seems to have completely skipped that step.  I don't know if there was a glitch or what, but there is no events albums and it converted the library so it's not readable by iPhoto anymore.

    I'm normally quite savvy with my Mac, but this update has me scratching my head on how to fix this. 

    Let me know if you have any suggestions.

     

    Thanks.

     

    M.

  • by LarryHN,

    LarryHN LarryHN Jul 24, 2015 11:32 PM in response to mauricio san francisco
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    Jul 24, 2015 11:32 PM in response to mauricio san francisco

    As posted

     

    You can continue to use iPhoto or you can migrate the iPhoto library again (launch Photos while holding the option key down and select the iPhoto library to migrate and open)

    After the update you have two separate libraries - one for Photos and one for iPhoto - iPhoto is in your applications folder and works just fine it you are are up to date with version 9.6.1 - if you do not stay up to date see Can't Update iPhoto because it is not available in the App Store

    LN

  • by vconradwright,

    vconradwright vconradwright Oct 16, 2015 3:25 PM in response to LarryHN
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    Oct 16, 2015 3:25 PM in response to LarryHN

    I don't see any folders in Photos.  My events are gone - hours of work organizing my photos - and don't believe all of my photos were migrated either. 

    I don't know where to start to fix this.