iPhoto pictures
I have many pictures which I have stored on my iMac using iPhoto but since its not supported I am not sure how to transfer them into "Photos" . Any suggestions?
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Open the iPhoto library with the Photos app (drag the iPhotos library onto the Photos app) and it will automatically migrate the iPhoto library to a new Photos library.
Or double click on the iPhotos library and it will be opened with Photos.
If you're running Ventira you'll have to open the Photos app, create a new library and then go to the File ➙ Import menu option, select your iPhoto library and import.
If you've done a lot of organizational effort in your iPhotos library, i.e. albums, keywords, descriptions, locations, etc. you might want to use the paid version of PowerPhotos to migrate your iPhoto library into a new, empty Photos library. Here are the differences between Photos and PowerPhotos in that regard:
PowerPhotos: Photos:
Albums*** -----------
Smart Albums (as regular albums)** -----------
Captions Captions
Titles Titles
Keywords* Keywords (some but not all: see Note *)
Original images Original images
Edited images Edited images
--------------- Locations
Favorites Favorites
Can detect and exclude Duplicates
duplicates upon import or not
Neither method could import/merge projects.
Both methods could import older iPhoto libraries into a Photos library when the iPhoto library couldn't be migrated into a Photos library.
Notes:
*The Photos app only imported 84 keywords our of 97. PowerPhotos merged 147 keywords. Photos only imported keywords that were embedded in the original file and not those added by Photos. PowerPhotos imported all of them.
**The original library had 90 Smart Albums. All were merged by PowerPhotos but, as indicated above, the Smart albums were brought over as regular albums. No album of any kind were imported by Photos.
The original library had 34 regular albums and 1 folder with some nested albums. PowerPhotos merger all of them successfully.
The original library had 72 videos. Photos imported only 57. PowerPhoto got all 72 in its merge.