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Is there a work around for iPhoto on mac Catalina?

Is there a work around for iPhoto on mac Catalina? II prefer iPhoto to Photo.

Posted on Dec 9, 2019 10:35 AM

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Dec 9, 2019 11:07 AM in response to donnar97

Do not upgrade to Catalina, if you have not yet found a replacement for iPhoto that you are comfortable with. iPhoto cannot run on Catalina because of some embedded 32bit code.


The migration of your photo libraries to a different application is easer and safer, if you still can run iPhoto.


To be able to run iPhoto on Catalina, you have to patch the application and remove all 32-bit code. It will leave a crippled application, that does no longer have the full power of iPhoto. (for example: https://github.com/cormiertyshawn895/Retroactive/)

It will be a faint memory of iPhoto and only useful in an emergency, when you need to look up some metadata in the old iPhoto Libraries - it is not possible to migrate iPhoto Libraries exactly as they are to Photos or another application.

Is there a work around for iPhoto on mac Catalina?

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