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Q: How do I create events in Photo

I Use events in the iPhoto application and I have sorted all my photos into events. In Photos how do I create an event and store the new picture

Posted on May 26, 2015 12:58 AM

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Q: How do I create events in Photo

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  • by R C-R,

    R C-R R C-R May 26, 2015 1:36 AM in response to soshah
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    May 26, 2015 1:36 AM in response to soshah

    You don't. There are no Events in Photos. The approximate equivalent is Moments.

  • by Ken Hart,

    Ken Hart Ken Hart May 26, 2015 3:52 AM in response to soshah
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    May 26, 2015 3:52 AM in response to soshah

    You can create albums and drag in photos from any Moment to group them together.  Then create folders and drag the album into the folder.  So you would have something like this.

     

    Vacation (folder)

    + Grand Canyon (album)

    + Hoover Dam (album)

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie May 26, 2015 3:54 AM in response to soshah
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    May 26, 2015 3:54 AM in response to soshah

    As R C-R said, there are no events in Photos.

     

    The "Moments" have replaced the events. The Moments are now the basic entities of the library, just like the events are in iPhoto.  Each photo and all its versions will appear in one  "Moment";  a photo cannot be in more than one moment. But you do not create or manage the moments on your own. Photos will partition the library automatically into moments, based on similar capture dates and similar locations. There is no way to move photos between moments other than changing the date of the photo. And you cannot name the moments, even the names are created automatically.  To have more descriptive moments it will help to ensure, that all photos have GPS tags, so Photos can use the location information to name the moments. You have to add them before importing into Photos, because Photos does not (yet) support the editing of GPS tags.

     

    You are seeing a folder "iPhoto Events" in the Album section of the library, because Photos created an album for each event it migrated to Photos. This way the name of your previous events could be saved, and the photos are grouped together in an album. The fake events album are only created, when you migrate a photo library to Photos. For new imports you will have to create albums on your own, if you want them.

  • by LarryHN,

    LarryHN LarryHN May 26, 2015 7:09 AM in response to soshah
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    May 26, 2015 7:09 AM in response to soshah

    the closest you can come is after each import in last import select all and create an album of that import much lie iPhoto created an event for each import

     

    LN

  • by MMF1234,

    MMF1234 MMF1234 Sep 30, 2015 3:12 PM in response to LarryHN
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    Sep 30, 2015 3:12 PM in response to LarryHN

    I followed all the above, but my question goes a bit further. Now that we back up our photos to the Icloud, it is virtually impossible to find pictures there without this "manual" album creation. It seems Smart Albums that I have created in Photos do not copy to the Icloud, but (I think) that normal albums do.

     

    any advice for this? What's the best way to be able to actually find pictures in the Icloud vs. looking and scrolling through 20K pictures. Virtually impossible! I loved the event concept, because the ICloud does show the events (which were imported from IPhoto), and that is very easy to then sort by the date of the groupings.

     

    Thanks!

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Sep 30, 2015 3:22 PM in response to MMF1234
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    Sep 30, 2015 3:22 PM in response to MMF1234
    It seems Smart Albums that I have created in Photos do not copy to the Icloud, but (I think) that normal albums do.

    Smart albums do sync to iCloud. You will see that, if you browse your iCloud Photo Library from a different Mac, that is also using iCloud Photo Library. (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204486) Only, neither the iPhone or iPad, nor the web iterface will show the smart albums.

    You have indeed to copy the photos from smart albums to regular albums, if you want to see themusing the web inte rface.

     

    Browse your iCloud Photo Library using the Photos.app on a Mac, if you want to search the library efficiently.

  • by Old Toad,

    Old Toad Old Toad Sep 30, 2015 3:52 PM in response to soshah
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    Sep 30, 2015 3:52 PM in response to soshah

    Moments in Photos are the new Events, i.e. groupings of photos sorted by date taken.

     

    When the iPhoto Library was first migrated to Photos there is a folder created in the sidebar titled iPhoto Events and all migrated iPhoto Events (which are now Moments) are represented by an album in that folder. To open the sidebar if it's not already open use the Option+Command+S key combination.

     

    NOTE: It's been reported by several users that if the Event albums are moved out of the iPhoto Library folder in the sidebar they may disappear.  It's not widespread but several users have reported that issue.  Therefore, if you want to assure that you keep those Event albums don't move them outside the iPhoto Events folder.

     

    There's a way to simulate events in Photos.

    When new photos are imported into the Photos library go to the Last Import smart album, select all the photos and use the File New Album menu option or use the key combination Command+N.  Name it as desired.  It will appear just above the iPhoto Events folder where you can drag it into the iPhoto Events folder

     

    When you click on the iPhoto Events folder you'll get a simulated iPhoto Events window.

    The downside to the simulation is that the Albums/Events can only be sorted automatically by Title. But they can also be sorted manually, either in the sidebar or in the folder's window at the right.  This will change with the release of Photos 2 with El Capitan this fall.  That will allow the sorting by date or title, ascending or descending.

     

    Tell Apple what missing features you'd like restored or new features added in Photos via Apple-Photos Feedback.

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  • by MMF1234,

    MMF1234 MMF1234 Oct 1, 2015 6:26 AM in response to léonie
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    Oct 1, 2015 6:26 AM in response to léonie

    Thanks -
    Feels like I'm having to take a step back now... I used to love the smart album concept, but is totally useless if now I have to manually create albums by topic/date anyway. I only really look at the photos on my phone. Ugh!

    Appreciate the response.

  • by Burndog,

    Burndog Burndog Mar 24, 2016 8:51 AM in response to MMF1234
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    Mar 24, 2016 8:51 AM in response to MMF1234

    How do you take a fluid program like iPhoto and make it worse or dumbing it down to a new program like Photo?  Apple has managed to make it more like a Windows Explorer program.ess intuitive with no events, limited flagging and organizing ,etc.

     

     

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  • by Jolly Rhino,

    Jolly Rhino Jolly Rhino Mar 25, 2016 9:18 AM in response to léonie
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    Mar 25, 2016 9:18 AM in response to léonie

    New to the Support Community...Which Apple engineer thought it was a great idea to remove the Events feature and the ability to group pictures together easily by merging Events?  Why add the step to create Albums, when it seemed to work fine the way it was?  Is there a way to uninstall Photo and go back to iPhoto?

  • by Old Toad,

    Old Toad Old Toad Mar 25, 2016 9:33 AM in response to Burndog
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    Mar 25, 2016 9:33 AM in response to Burndog

    It's a new paradigm but, once you get used to it, one that works well.  See my post above regrind Events and Moments.

  • by Burndog,

    Burndog Burndog Apr 9, 2016 9:39 AM in response to Jolly Rhino
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    Apr 9, 2016 9:39 AM in response to Jolly Rhino

    Agree Jolly...all i was saying..seems like 2-3 steps.  I'm used to Photo now and figured it out but the Events was powerful way to consolidate photos after trip rather short order. Now, import, then make folder, then it moves it. My book have to work touch harder accomplish same thing . Very Windows like.