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How to uninstall iPhoto 9.5.1 and reinstall 9.5 from Time Machine?

Hi.


I would like to uninstall iPhoto 9.5.1 because the slideshow is not working, and the get-around suggested in this forum doesn't work for me - even if I access the slideshow through 'share', still it doesn't always run, and the settings are not functioning correctly at all. I cannot access the transitions mode part of the menu - it is completely unresponsive to the cursor. And the theme music keeps on playing even when I keep on unchecking the box (in some albums I tried to view, I eventually stopped this by selecting iTunes - it then went silent, which suited me fine). These two faults are fairly consistent, but there are also other odd and inconsistent things happening when I try to fix the settings or run the slideshow.


My albums are ordered by hand - I believe iPhoto might cooperate if the pics were ordered by date or camera file number but I find iPhoto's obsession with date and/or digital file number-led organisation extremely exasperating. Keyword/titles or numbering all the photos in each album also would not work because of the way I want the main photo gallery to be organised, and because some of these photos appear in several albums.


As slideshow is the most important aspect of iPhoto for me, I need to go back to an earlier version until/unless this bug gets fixed. I am using a brand new Retina MBP, so I assume it must have shipped with version 9.5, although I never even used this before downloading the update so I don't know if it would have functioned correctly. I ran Time Machine a couple of days before I installed iPhoto 9.5.1 so I do have 9.5, but I don't know how to get it back. Please give simple instructions. Thanks.


(I had to do this iPhoto download more than once because, as has happened with some other people on the forum, I find my link to the App Store is not functioning correctly - it required me to download some updates three times, and others it apparently somehow downloaded all by itself three times, yet the apps on the Mac still did not show the updated versions. Eventually, it seems to have sorted itself out, but not without wasting a lot of my time and effort in trying to understand what was going on.)

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)

Posted on Apr 20, 2014 3:11 AM

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Posted on Apr 20, 2014 10:13 AM

Go to your Applicaitons folder and select the iPhoto applicaiton. Enter Time Machine

User uploaded file

go back in time to the earliest backup. The iPhoto applicaiton should be selected so just click on the Restore button. When asked you can either keep both versions or just the restored version.


Are you slideshows directly from albums? If they are you can run them from the slideshow mode successfully even if they are sorted manually.


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Apr 20, 2014 10:13 AM in response to Soloris

Go to your Applicaitons folder and select the iPhoto applicaiton. Enter Time Machine

User uploaded file

go back in time to the earliest backup. The iPhoto applicaiton should be selected so just click on the Restore button. When asked you can either keep both versions or just the restored version.


Are you slideshows directly from albums? If they are you can run them from the slideshow mode successfully even if they are sorted manually.


OT

Apr 20, 2014 11:18 AM in response to Old Toad

Thanks for that. Bit nervous about actually using Time Machine...


If I keep both versions, will this mean two versions of the whole photo library are being stored on my rather small new hard drive?? Or is it just the app itself?


Is there any good reason for me to keep 9.5.1? Presumably if they actually fix this problem, I could just download the fixed version afresh, no?


Alas, the slideshow mode get-around doesn't work for me at all. As I wrote in my question, in my particular version of this malfunction, the slideshow settings are also completely weird and messed up, and they remain that way even when accessed via the slideshow mode. So it too is useless.

Apr 20, 2014 11:43 AM in response to Soloris

Just two versions of your Application. However, I'm not sure if the 9.5.1 library will open with iPhoto 9.5. You'll just have to see.


If it can't you could downgrade the library to iPhoto 9.5 with iPhoto Library Manager. iPLM would create a new library for version 9.5 so you would have two copies of the library until you deleted the one you didn't want.

Apr 20, 2014 12:17 PM in response to Old Toad

If the 9.5.1. library won't open in 9.5, can I reload the library as it exists still sitting on the previous MBP (which was running iPhoto version 9.4.2 I think) into the 9.5 version?


If so, how would I do this?


(And if by any chance iPhoto 9.5 is still glitchy, could I reload and run the whole iPhoto 9.4.2 app and library on the Retina/Mavericks MBP?)

Apr 20, 2014 12:42 PM in response to Soloris

Is the library on the other MBP? If so connect the two Macs by LAN, Target Disk Mode, or other method and copy the library from the old MBP to the Pictures folder on your new MPB.


If you have an external HD connect it to the old MBP, copy the library to it, move it to the new MPB and copy the library to the Pictures folder.

How to uninstall iPhoto 9.5.1 and reinstall 9.5 from Time Machine?

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