Download the latest IOS that will still allow me to use

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Download the latest IOS that will still allow me to use

What is the latest Operating system for imac that will still allow me to access iphoto? I currently have 10.10.5 (yosemite) and have been concerned about up-grading the operating system for fear of losing access to iphoto. The way mac stores pictures on photos is way too cumbersome for the type of work I do. Creating events is a much more productive for me in that often an activity will take place over several months. By creating an event, photos are easy to find, as opposed to searching through a field of photos scattered by dates. Unfortunately, I needed to replace my wireless keyboard with the new magic keyboard, and some of its functionality has been lost.

iMac 21.5″, OS X 10.10

Posted on Oct 20, 2020 5:41 AM

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Yer_Man

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Oct 20, 2020 5:44 AM in response to Charles Niemi

The latest OS that will allow iPhoto to run is OS10.14 Mojave.

Trying to stick with iPhoto is a dead-end proposition though, and the one thing sure is that the next Mac you get will not run it. So, on way or another you'll be leaving iPhoto at some point. Easier to do it now, while it still runs, than later when it doesn't.

As for Events... just make an Album instead. Or a date based Smart Album.

And also remember, that using iPhoto or Photos is not compulsory, you can also use any 3rd party app you prefer.

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Old Toad

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Oct 20, 2020 10:28 AM in response to Charles Niemi

Maybe you should read these user tips:

Here are some user tips from Photos for Mac User Tips that will help you in your transition from iPhoto to Photos:

Notes on Migrating an iPhoto Library from iPhoto to Photos for Mac - read first

External Editors in Photos Are Here

Photo Editing Extensions for Photos for Mac

Post 9/30/2018 Printing Options for Photos - Apple Community

Ordering Books and Calendars on a Mac that cannot be updated past El Capitan

Use Project Extensions to order print products in Photos after September 30, 2018 - Apple Support

Create and order print products in Photos with Project Extensions - Apple Support

Be aware that iPhoto Events are converted into Album with the same name as the Events. So you can consider albums to the the new events.

Also any import from the iPhone or other source can be put directly into an existing album or a new album:

Photos is much more powerful in organizing and editing than iPhoto ever was.

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Oct 25, 2020 4:34 PM in response to Yer_Man

I think that's the direction I need to go. The problem is how to convert and Event sinto an albums. It appears that all of my books have already moved as albums and some of those don't work very well. How do I differientiate between a book and an event, as they all appear as they will come across as albums.?

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Oct 25, 2020 4:37 PM in response to Old Toad

After reading the listed tips, and the 100+ hours I spent with Apple migrating photos, and books from the powerpc platform to the intel platform. I am completely gunshy about moving anything. A lot of information was lost in the translation. Also didn't help that the brand new imac had a defective hard drive and I ended up losing a lot of pictures.

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Old Toad

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Oct 25, 2020 4:43 PM in response to Charles Niemi

The albums created from Events in iPhoto will have the same name as those Events had. The same goes for the projects

However, slideshow projects will migrate as slideshows. The slideshow themes indicated by arrows will retain the same theme but the others will be converted to the Classic theme:

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Oct 30, 2020 5:11 AM in response to Old Toad

The next challenge is how do migrate events from iPhoto to photo? When I first got the new iMac, the migration was more or less automatic when setting up photo. But after set up, nothing seems to migrate. I also noted that individual ID's of the pictures in iPhoto disappear when migrated to photo. I still don't see anything about the photo storage system that is an improvement over iPhoto. To me its like dumping a bunch of photos in a wastebasket then trying to sort them out. what am I missing?

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Old Toad

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Oct 30, 2020 10:39 AM in response to Charles Niemi

The migration of Events is automatic. They get migrated as albums with the same name as the events:

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