iphotos update

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iphotos update

The App Store icon on the dashboard shows there's a pending update. When I click on Update for Iphotos I immediately get a message that says: iPhoto cannot be updated because it was refunded or purchased with a different Apple ID.

This means I am unable to update my iphotos. I don't understand, because I have never had a different Apple ID and anyway doesn't Iphotos simply come with the Macair, Iphone and Ipad - all purchased at different times over the last decade or so?

This MacAir was bought in February 2020, but the same message keeps appearing and the number one in red on the App store icon in the dashboard is a constant I have to live with!

Posted on Apr 5, 2020 12:03 AM

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léonie

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Apr 5, 2020 11:42 PM in response to rosinkafromkolkata

There are two different photo applications on your Mac:

iPhoto: iPhoto has been sold as part of the iLife bundles or preinstalled on alder Macs. The development of iPhoto has been stopped in 2015, the last version is iPhoto 9.6.1. Older versions of iPhoto, purchased an installer CDs and not from the App Store can no longer be updated. The misleading, cryptic error message is indicating that you are seeing the update alert for a version that has not been installed from the AppStore and cannot be updated from the App Store. iPhoto 9.6.1 can still run on on your current system, and also on newer systems, up to macOS 10.14.6, but is yesterdays's snow on macOS 10.15. It is time to switch to the Photos.app.
Photos: Photos is the successor to iPhoto and comes preinstalled by the system. It can open your old iPhoto Libraries. See:
- New to Photos? Some Considerations on How to Design your First Photos Library
- Notes on Migrating an iPhoto Library from… - Apple Community

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Apr 5, 2020 10:56 PM in response to Yer_Man

I'm sorry - I'm not sure what you mean. It is on the Macair, in the sense that it's there on the dashboard as usual - the icon - not on any attached disk. But I think it runs on icloud as it is shared across my phone (iphone 7) and ipad (very old). I can't remember when it was first installed, on which device, and how - it was so long ago.

And yes, in fact I just updated the MacAir to the latest version of Catalina.

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Yer_Man

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Apr 5, 2020 11:15 PM in response to rosinkafromkolkata

You no longer need iPhoto. It was discontinued 5 years ago and now won't even run on Catalina. You're getting the update notice because it's on the machine. Delete it and the update notice will go away.

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Apr 6, 2020 10:48 PM in response to léonie

Thank you for adding to what Terence said. This explains the situation to me fully - or I was going to ask Terence where do my photos go then! I will follow the second link and then delete the iPhoto app - hopefully that will solve the issue. Very grateful for your help.

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Yer_Man

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Apr 5, 2020 12:15 AM in response to rosinkafromkolkata

If the machine was bought in 2020 then it has Catalina on it, and iPhoto doesn't run on that.

Do you have a copy of iPhoto on the Mac or on an attached disk?

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Apr 6, 2020 10:46 PM in response to Yer_Man

Thanks for this Terence. I'm obviously a luddite. Hopefully deleting iPhoto will solve the problem.

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