Contrary to my untimely discovery of the advisory to
not Force Quit if & when the process stalled, I did. Now I'm
advised to upgrade 9, (now gone) to 9.1 before proceeding.
Should I reinstall 9 from the DVD? Will it even install alongside
11 or should I delete 11? Fortunately I have a recent backup of
the iPhoto Library on a separate disk. Please advise the steps
I should be taking. Thanks in advance, Tom.
iMovie '11, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
I think you are confusing (esaily understood) the marketing names with the versions
iPhoto 6 is version 6.x.x
iPhoto '08 is version 7.x.x
iPhoto '09 is version 8.x.x
iPhoto '11 is version 9.x.x
do you currectly have a working iPhoto? What version is it?
LN
Which backup shall I restore from?
1. The '09 original that didn't go through the trauma of conversion of its database.
2. The one that was converted to '11, hung then endured the force quit and subsequent rebuild.
Restore the '09 backup and start fresh with it doing the rebuild when you first open it
LN
OK I did that. Still no pics.
The Library is 47GB.
What ever bacame of the conversion that is supposedly
needed to use the library with '11? This step didn't present -
or does rebuilding take care of that?
The package shows no contents in Masters.
I think I noticed the origina '09 library doesn't contain a "Masters" folder,
it looks like this:
Should I consider reverting to '09 on the
hope it can view pics in my '09 library?
It appeared that we've reached a stalemate here so I reverted to
iPhoto '09 (ver. 8.1.2), applied two updates from Software Update
and was able to get my pics back.
As the KB article ***** http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4431 *****
gives instructions I should have read before upgrading, it doesn't
discuss what to do if the library conversion hangs - only what to
do if the application quits unexpectedly during the conversion.
My experience was the former and my only option was to force
quit, which says do not do. As I see no way to safely upgrade
to '11 w/o risking another damaging force quit I will apply for a
refund from the Store. Thanks for the help. Tom
upgrade from iPhoto 9 to 11 failed, need help
