OS Catalina and iphoto

I saw the notice that notice that iPhotos wouldn't work in Catalina and stopped the upgrade until I could figure something out. My biggest issue is maintaining the event folder/albums. Yes, in the Photos app, I found listed iPhoto events. I start checking back event. Not all pictures were in a few of the events. Now I have over 72,000 photos and over 1,000 events so , no, I haven't checked them all. I've taken a 1T external portable hard drive - creating a folder- giving it the name from an iPhoto event - transferring photos to this new folder on external hard drive. Perhaps there's an easier method, but with literally thousands of photos, I figured that this would be a good way to keep my separate event "albums." It's time consuming, but not as much as me trying to separate over 72,000 individual photos into events.

Yep all gone, unless you revert to a backup to finish the book.

Vague questions get vague answers. Is this because you upgraded to Catalina? If so, read this thread or the 30 others that deal with this issue. If not, then you'll need to give us more details to work with.

Old computers are why you make back ups, and Apple even give you a free back up application. No idea why you would expect your photos to be on an airport, it has no storage. NO idea what the issue with your HD is, but we'd need more information that just 'is being weird' to help. Remember Apple ceased development and sale of iPhoto more than four years ago and replaced it with a free and more powerful application with a simple migration path. You might ask yourself why you're only attempting this now, years later.

You mention Airport and a portable drive. How have you been using AirPort? Did you have a connected backup drive for Time Machine backups?

What has been stored on your portable drive? Did you store your iPhoto Library there? If yes, what is the file system format of this portable drive? I what way is it "acting weird"?

Try the Image Capture.app: It should be installed on your Mac:

Scan images in Image Capture on Mac - Apple Support

Try using the demo version of VueScan. If it works you can purchase it. I use it instead of the software that came with my scanner. Much more powerful.

Alternatives?

Lightroom Classic

Dxo PhotoLab

Capture One

OnOne Photo Raw

Mylio

Photo Supreme

and there's more...

Trying to open iPhoto library using all the tips written here.

I just clicked twice again... Right now it's updating in Photos at 12%. Last time it did not go until 100% and I got an error message 5can't remember which one).

Spoke to Apple this afternoon, they were no help transferring my 14,000 pictures from iPhoto to Photos and keeping them in the same order. Currently in iPhoto they are numbered 1 to 14,000 but when I transfer (I just tried 10 pictures) they arrive in Photos not in name order but in date order! A right mess, my photo library is useless if the are in the wrong order.

Looked for alternative applications, but none seem to exist any more, for example Picasa apparently has been now discontinued.

Any ideas anyone what I can use instead of iPhoto, Photo does not work for me, so until I find a solution I cannot upgrade my OS.

Hi Terence,

So what is the nearest application in functionality to iPhoto?

I need to order photos in file name order. Photos certainly does not do this.

Appreciate any insight you can give.

Best regards,

Pato_londres

I need to order photos in file name order. Photos certainly does not do this

There's a workaround for that.

1 - select all of the photos in the library and either use the key combination of ⌘+N or the File menu:

That album can be sorted by Title.

2 - when new photos are imported drag them from the Imports window into the All Photos album.

If you want to assure that the titles are the same as the file name select photos and run this AppleScript on them: Script: Batch Changing the Titles to the Filenames with Extension (Dec 19,2018) or Script: Changing the Title to the Filename without Extension

The scripts compiled as applications can be downloaded from this tutorial site:  P01 - Applescripts from Photos’ User Tips Compiled as Applications

Thank you but that is not my problem , What i need is iPhoto to finish my book it is all done thru iPhoto PHOTO will not work . iPhoto is the only one where you can do this project trans mitt to APPLE and they MAKE the BOOK FOR YOU.