Q: I upgraded to El Captain and was warned re iphoto however it said it would save all pics in photos? They aren't there?? HELP!!
Hi, I upgraded a while back to El Capitan 10.11.6 from Lion to find it didn't support iphoto. However it did say it would migrate the pics to photos. However now I need to access years of photos I can't seem to find them in there at all? I also saved on an external hard drive iphoto but now cannot open it as my mac doesn't support it?? Is there an app I can use or a way I can retrieve the pics. All my daughters baby pics and videos!! OMG!!! HELP!!
iPad Mini, iOS 9.3
Posted on Aug 25, 2016 2:11 AM
Do you still have your iPhoto Library?
If so, you can still get to the photos themselves. You may end up losing any Albums, keywords, etc, but the images should still be in the old Library.
Try all the other suggestions and if those fail, we can likely still get the photos out of the Library.
Depending on how old your iPhoto Library is, here is another option to fix the iPhoto Library so that Photos can assume control of it: Using the iPhoto Library Upgrader tool - Apple Support
There is also this third-party software which also may help "recover" the Library to make it importable: https://www.fatcatsoftware.com/iplm/
Posted on Aug 26, 2016 2:33 PM