On my old MacBook I used the program iPhoto. After buying (already a few years back) a new MacBook the program changed to Photo. My whole system want down the drain and now somebody told me I could go back to iPhoto. I would love to do that but can't figure out how to do that? Who knows?
You can only use iPhoto on a new Mac, if you already have a copy of iPhoto 9.6.1. Only iPhoto 9.6.1 can run on a Mac with macOS 10.10.3 or newer installed.
To get iPhoto 9.6.1 installed, check your Purchases history at the Mac App Store. If iPhoto is in your Purchase History you can move any older iPhoto.app to the Trash (only the iPhoto.app, not the iPhoto Library) and then try to download iPhoto from the Purchases history at the AppStore.
You can use iPhoto to open your old iPhoto Libraries, but iPhoto cannot open Photos Libraries. You would have to export the photos from Photos and to import them to iPhoto.
iPhoto is essentially dead. It has not been updated since 2015. And it will no longer run on the next version of MacOS X, macOS 10.15 Catalina. If you want to use iPhoto, you must not upgrade your Mac to the new system, when Catalina will be released next month.
My whole system want down the drain
In what way? It might be easier to fix this problem than going back to iPhoto. It will be a dead end.
You can only use iPhoto on a new Mac, if you already have a copy of iPhoto 9.6.1. Only iPhoto 9.6.1 can run on a Mac with macOS 10.10.3 or newer installed.
To get iPhoto 9.6.1 installed, check your Purchases history at the Mac App Store. If iPhoto is in your Purchase History you can move any older iPhoto.app to the Trash (only the iPhoto.app, not the iPhoto Library) and then try to download iPhoto from the Purchases history at the AppStore.
You can use iPhoto to open your old iPhoto Libraries, but iPhoto cannot open Photos Libraries. You would have to export the photos from Photos and to import them to iPhoto.
iPhoto is essentially dead. It has not been updated since 2015. And it will no longer run on the next version of MacOS X, macOS 10.15 Catalina. If you want to use iPhoto, you must not upgrade your Mac to the new system, when Catalina will be released next month.
My whole system want down the drain
In what way? It might be easier to fix this problem than going back to iPhoto. It will be a dead end.
Something must have gone wrong, when you "put all your photos in Photos."
It is supposed to work like this: When you open an iPhoto Library in Photos all your albums should be preserved. The dates should not change. You should find all your titles and places you assigned in iPhoto, when you browse the photos in Photos.
Do you remember, which version of iPhoto you had? Has it been iPhoto '11 or an older version?
Do you still have your old iPhoto Library, so you could try to migrate it again to Photos?
Thanks Leonie,
It is now clear to me that I have to deal Photo. When I got my new MacBook I put al my photos in Photo. I had albums. They are gone. A lot of my Photos has been duplicated. It put different dates to the photos. and there are so many photos that, after working to make new albums, I get tired and give up. But after all, I would like to make it a proper album but I don't know how to do it.
I know something went wrong. I was moving from Holland to Spain. My old Macbook broke down. I bought a new one. We had to find al the content.
Somebody helped me but I think he didn't know to much of MacBooks . I would not know what version I had and al my backups are from the new Macbook. So I have to solve the problem by ordening the photos. Would you know an easy way to get rid of al the duplicates?
Would you know an easy way to get rid of al the duplicates?
If there are many duplicates, a third-party duplicate detector can help.
It will depend on the kind of duplicates which program you should try.
There are only a few duplicate finders that are safe to use. Many of them can damage the Photos Library badly, see: Using third-party apps to remove duplicate photos might damage your Photos for macOS library - Apple Support
back to iPhoto instead of Photo
