Q: Accessing Photo and Movie files Imported into Photos
I held off as long as I could before making the switch at home from iPhoto to Photos. I'm using El Capitan now with Photos and am having trouble finding the photo and movie files I import. There are there in the program, but when I search for them by name they won't show up. The terminal solution to show hidden files (defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles YES) doesn't work. I have to export the files from within Photos to a new location and then can see them in a search. Is there a way to fix this? I seem to recall that there was in earlier OSes, but am not having much luck right now.
Thanks.
iMac with Retina 5K display, OS X El Capitan (10.11.5), i7, 2 TB Fusion AMD Radeon R9 M395x
Posted on Jul 23, 2016 12:14 PM
Kort wrote:
The photos pane is empty in iMovie on my computer. I'm running iMovie 09 (8) on my system currently.
If you want to use iMovie '09 with Photos, that will not work.
You need iMovie 10 as show in OT's screen capture.
The problem is, that the latest iLife '09 versions have been released, long before the new ways to share photos by the Media Browser have been invented. iMovie '09 simply does not support Photos for Mac.
Posted on Jul 24, 2016 12:39 PM

