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Q: El Capitan's Photos Library Format Incompatible w/Yosemite's?!?!

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Soooooo....the apparent incompatibility in Photos Library formats between El Capitan and Yosemite is a major problem.

 

I upgraded one of my Macs to El Capitan and used Photos on it to access a Photos Library on my other Mac (still running Yosemite).  The El Capitan Mac insisted it had to first "upgrade" my library and converted it to a format that I can't open on my Yosemite machine.  I don't recall it warning me that I'd no longer be able to open that library on the Yosemite machine.

 

It blows my mind that Apple made Photos in El Capitan (Photos v1.2) incompatible with Photos in Yosemite (current v.1.0.1). El Capitan insists on "updating" shared Photos Libraries before it will open then, rendering them useless and un-openable on any other Mac.

 

Moreover, the Photos app cannot presently be updated to v1.2 on Yosemite machines.  This is so un-Apple behavior in terms of standardization and foolproofing things that I'm red-faced with anger.  Now I'm forced to go through exporting everything from the El Capitan machine to the Yosemite machine and re-creating the Photos Library from scratch (or just never editing Photos on my larger machine at all until Apple gets around to synchronizing Photos versions).

 

Does anyone have any information on when or if Apple will make the Photos Library formats the same between the now-dissimilar versions of Photos (v1.2 vs. v1.0.1) across El Capitan and older machines?  Or allow Photos on Yosemite to be updated to 1.2?  It just kills me that Apple did this.  I'm really stunned.

 

Commentary: And they say Android has a "fragmentation" problem?  Ha....now Apple's decided to create their own "fragmentation" issues related to different versions of the identical app.  W T H, Apple?  Seriously.  W T H ?

iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.2), i5, 2.7 GHz, 1TB HDD

Posted on Oct 25, 2015 5:59 PM

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