HELP PLEASE!!! Catalina and iPhoto

scientist-bob wrote:

I know that I can import the libraries into Photos, but it loses all the albums and info, etc.

That's 100% wrong. When you migrate an iPhoto Library to a Photos library the iPhoto Events become albums (with the same name) if a sidebar folder titled iPhoto Events (duh!). Albums are converted to albums. The only item that is not converted totally the same are projects. That's because Photos does not offer the books, calendars, etc., but go thru 3rd party extensions/software. Slideshows are OK except for a couple of themes in iPhoto that don't exist in Photos.

So just open each of your iPhoto libraries with Photos and convert them to Photos.

If your Mac can run Big Sur I suggest you upgrade to that instead of staying at Catalina. There have been many bug fixes with Photos from Catalina to Big Sur and Photos is much better now.

Big Sur Photos is much more powerful in editing than iPhoto ever was.

Having a library converted by Photos preserves the albums and the events are converted into albums.

Launch Photos with the option key held down and select one of your iPhoto libraries from the dialog, Photos will create a new library, leaving the iPhoto Library untouched, but renamed.