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User profile for user: Adam Woodhams
Adam Woodhams Author
User level: Level 1
30 points

Reverting to iPhoto '09?

Anyone know the smoothest way to go back to '09?
TimeMachine back-up?

There are just too many bugs and too many missing features in '11.
It really is next to useless.
I hope these are short term problems & that Apple will bring it back to being a useful (and useable ap') if not '11 marks the death of a otherwise great ap' that had until now been evolving well.
Seems they have concentrated too much on the 'cute' factor & forgotten that people do actually need iPhoto to do stuff.

27" 2.8ghz i7, 3.06ghz intel c2d 24" iMac 4g ram, 2ghz 13" Uni B MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Oct 23, 2010 8:28 PM

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User profile for user: Adam Woodhams
Adam Woodhams Author
User level: Level 1
30 points

Nov 2, 2010 2:41 PM in response to Justin Cohen

Justin Cohen wrote:
If anyone has suggestions for how I can revert to iPhoto 09 without a Time Machine backup, I'd be much obliged.


Hmmm, that is difficult.
The problem is that an 'upgrade' rewrites a lot of information on your library so you need the old library to swap out.
That's why the process needs to be - rename existing ('11) library, delete the iPhoto '11 application from your applications folder & all the associated files (AppZapper or similar may be the best way to do this) then re-install iPhoto '09 from a back-up or the original discs then put your old iPhoto library back in place from your pre-'11 back-up. Check all works correctly before deleting the renamed '11 library.

If you haven't got a back-up, TimeMachine or otherwise, what you may have to do is to rename your '11 library. Delete the application and all it's associated files (JUST MAKE SURE YOU DON'T DELETE THE LIBRARY!!!)
Then re-install '09 and try this.
Go to the renamed library. Right-click on it. Select 'show package contents'. Find the folder called originals. Drag this out onto the desktop. This folder contains all of your images as they were originally imported to your computer. That means the images will not have any editing changes, tags key-words etc.
In iPhoto '09 select import to library and then direct the import window to this folder and import.
It may take quite some time & your pics will not have changes etc that you may have made but if this is the difference between loosing and saving images then so be it.
I don't know if others have better ideas...
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User profile for user: Ozzie_412
Ozzie_412
User level: Level 1
20 points

Nov 5, 2010 2:58 AM in response to Adam Woodhams

Add this to missing/lost features/bugs.

1. Ability to email direct from iPhoto via Apple's Mail program. Must now use Apple's pre-ordained templates to mail photos or go thru all the extra steps to drag pictures to a new message in the Mail program. Even if you want to use Apple's templates, there is no access to your address book. Requires another step to get an email address and copy it into the template.

2. That loss of keywords under the photos just does't make sense at all. When you look at a photo you don't want to open another window to see what it is. The info is much better placed right under the photo as it was in '09.

3. Just installed the 9.1 upgrade and now cannot drag/copy move photos from one event to another.

4. Takes much, much longer for the program to launch.

With over 9,000 photos in my library, I am not looking forward to the 24 hour procedure to revert back to iPhoto '09 described in another post. An Apple user since 1982, this is the first time I have really, really been disappointed in one of their updates. Plus my wife is really ****** off at me for upgrading her iPhoto library (looks like another 24 hour job to fix hers also).
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User profile for user: Yer_Man
Yer_Man
User level: Level 10
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Nov 5, 2010 4:43 AM in response to Ozzie_412

Ability to email direct from iPhoto via Apple's Mail program. Must now use Apple's pre-ordained templates to mail photos or go thru all the extra steps to drag pictures to a new message in the Mail program.


What extra steps:

Select the pics - that's the same

Click on the email button or drag to the dock icon - where's the extra step?

3. Just installed the 9.1 upgrade and now cannot drag/copy move photos from one event to another.


Drag them to the Title of the target Event in Photos view.

4. Takes much, much longer for the program to launch.


You need to examine that Library. My Library of 30k photos launches faster.

Regards

TD

Regards

TD
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User profile for user: Ozzie_412
Ozzie_412
User level: Level 1
20 points

Nov 5, 2010 10:03 AM in response to Yer_Man

Thanks Terence. I did find a link in the discussions about dragging photos to the Email icon in the doc and also thanks for the tip on having to drag the photo to the event title to move pictures from event to event. Will try to find out why my library is taking so long to launch, maybe rebuild and/or run some other Apple utilities. Your fixes will allow me to keep running iPhoto 11 rather then converting back to '09 iPhoto. I still would like to see keywords treated the same as in '09 iPhoto.
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User profile for user: dude_uber
dude_uber
User level: Level 1
14 points

Nov 7, 2010 6:08 AM in response to Adam Woodhams

OK.

I've followed Adam's helpful instructions, and all goes fine until i restore my previous iphoto library from TimeMachine. it gives me the following error message, after it's imported about 1.5GB of my 22GB library:

"the operation can't be completed because you don't have permission to access to the iPhoto Library"

When i restored other elements (eg iPhoto app) from TimeMachine, it asked me for my system password, but it didn't for the iPhoto library. I am the only user on the system, and have admin control.

any advice will be gratefully received.

thanks

jane
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User profile for user: Ozzie_412
Ozzie_412
User level: Level 1
20 points

Nov 7, 2010 7:50 AM in response to Yer_Man

I tried to rebuild my thumbnails via the same procedure used in iPhoto "09 by holding down the option key while booting iPhoto '11. My library name comes up. I accept it and iPhoto launches without a message to Rebuild or a way to rebuild. Is the procedure different in iPhoto '11 or does that feature not exist anymore? According to iPhoto Help, it is supposed to Rebuild with the Option Key, booting iPhoto 11.
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