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All but Photos transferred and in subsequent effort Album titles transferred but still no photos. Help!

How do I transfer Photos from old iMac to new iMac?


iMac Line (2012 and Later)

Posted on May 30, 2021 3:59 PM

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Posted on May 31, 2021 12:15 AM

Hi


How have you tried to transfer it?


If you have all your photos in iCloud, you can just use that to sync to the new Mac. Though it will take some time.


If not, What app were you using on the old Mac?


iPhoto?

or Photos? (which replaced iPhoto some years ago, but iPhoto still runs on MacOS Mojave and earlier).


If iPhoto, which version of iPhoto did you have? If V7 or earlier, you first need to run the library upgrader tool on the OLD mac.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202358


Then - you copy the whole library bundle to the new mac (either via time machine backup, or external drive formatted APFS or MacOS extended), place it in the pictures folder, and open it using the Photos app. Photos will then upgrade the library for use with your new version of MacOS/Photos.


Make sure you don't delete the old library or dispose of the old mac until everything is working on the new one.

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May 31, 2021 12:15 AM in response to dwiner45

Hi


How have you tried to transfer it?


If you have all your photos in iCloud, you can just use that to sync to the new Mac. Though it will take some time.


If not, What app were you using on the old Mac?


iPhoto?

or Photos? (which replaced iPhoto some years ago, but iPhoto still runs on MacOS Mojave and earlier).


If iPhoto, which version of iPhoto did you have? If V7 or earlier, you first need to run the library upgrader tool on the OLD mac.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202358


Then - you copy the whole library bundle to the new mac (either via time machine backup, or external drive formatted APFS or MacOS extended), place it in the pictures folder, and open it using the Photos app. Photos will then upgrade the library for use with your new version of MacOS/Photos.


Make sure you don't delete the old library or dispose of the old mac until everything is working on the new one.

All but Photos transferred and in subsequent effort Album titles transferred but still no photos. Help!

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