access photos in iPhotos after catalina upgrade
Upgraded to Catalina, my iPhotos icon has a no symbol. I have most of my photos there- how do i access these?
MacBook Pro 13", macOS 10.15
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You can open the iPhoto Library in Photos for Mac, see: Updating from iPhoto to Photos for OS X - Apple Support
By default your iPhoto Library should be in your Pictures folder.
If there is an iPhoto Library on your Mac, Photos for mac should be able to find it.
- Launch Photos while holding down the options key ⌥.
- Keep holding down ⌥ until the Library Chooser Dialog appears, then release the key.
- Are you seeing your iPhoto Library in the list of libraries? Then select it.
Photos will create a new library from the iPhoto library. That will allow you to export the photos to another application, or you can use Photos to browse the photos and albums or to edit the photos.
Here is a user guide for Photos: Get started with Photos for OS X - Apple Support
And some hints: https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-8461