iphoto and photos

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iphoto and photos

I am buying a new iMac early next year and currently I have a late 2012 with iPhoto. My Mac has iPhoto corrupt and cannot repair etc - cannot access it no matter what I do. I can see I have 70Gb in Pictures - iPhoto library so all there despite cannot access them.

I understand new iMac does not have photos in it so how can I transfer all my iPhotos to photos in new mac.

I have everything backed up in Time Machine - so when I plug TM in mew Mac, will iPhoto automatically be found and load. After I have transferred everything in Photos, I fount use iPhoto again.

Posted on Dec 17, 2018 1:50 PM

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Yer_Man

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Dec 17, 2018 3:37 PM in response to Booberoi

Photos and iPhoto are different applications and they work differently. For instance, there are no events in Photos, those are replaced by a concept called 'Moments'. When you migrate all your Events are converted to Albums in Photos. According to Léonie's very helpful note here

Notes on Migrating an iPhoto Library from… - Apple Community

Yes, your albums are also migrated.

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Yer_Man

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Dec 17, 2018 3:17 PM in response to Booberoi

Moving from iPhoto to Photos is simple, and doesn't require iPhoto at all. Just open the iPhoto Library with the Photos.app. It will do the rest.

To open a library: Hold down the option (or alt) key and launch Photos. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library'

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Booberoi Author

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Dec 17, 2018 3:46 PM in response to Yer_Man

Hi - I have a disk problem which is not allowing me to access iPhoto - spinning wheel etc. I took my mac to Apple genius bar and they said I have disk problems hence reason for new mac coming up.

just now - I tried to copy iPhotos into Photos - went to 13% and said I had file issues so had to quit - which is what I did.

So, I will have to wait until new Mac and then try what you said.

By the way, at an earlier date I did copy my iPhoto events into photos album and all there - I just want to copy the latest lot of Albums I created in iphoto to Photo - but happy to wait.

Thanks

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Booberoi Author

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Dec 17, 2018 3:30 PM in response to Yer_Man

Thanks - will I then see albums created in iPhoto in Photos?

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