iPhoto won't open after Mavericks toSnow Leopard downgrade

Question

Level 1

0 points

iPhoto won't open after Mavericks toSnow Leopard downgrade

Hi,

recently I've upgraded my OS to Mavericks, but I really did not like the performance on the new OS, so I decided to move back to Snow Leopard. I did backup all my information with Time Machine before downgrading, but to my surprise nothing would work afterwards, particularly iPhoto. I've tried even upgrading back to Mavericks to see if I could retrieve my pictures and then downgrade again, but when I tried it I got a message saying that my mac couldn't be upgraded to Mavericks.

Does anyone know a way to get iPhoto to work again?

Thanks in advance.

Posted on Jul 7, 2014 4:01 PM

Reply

Answer 1

Best reply

Amilixkan

Level 3

551 points

Jul 7, 2014 4:09 PM in response to Eudine

iPhoto does not work because you are trying to use a version build for Mavericks and too "new" to run on SL, in any case you need to downgrade your iPhoto to a version compatible with Snow Leopard if you pretend to run SL and iPhoto, these will prove the same to most applications

Reply

Answer 2

Eudine Author

Level 1

0 points

Jul 7, 2014 4:33 PM in response to Amilixkan

Hi Amilixkan,

thanks for your reply. I downgraded my iPhoto to SL version (with the DVD that came with my notebook) but that didn't help either.

Reply

Answer 3

Chris CA

Level 10

82,434 points

Jul 7, 2014 4:34 PM in response to Eudine

Eudine wrote:

Hi Amilixkan,

thanks for your reply. I downgraded my iPhoto to SL version (with the DVD that came with my notebook) but that didn't help either.

The iPhoto library (with the photos) was upgraded.

You need to use the iPhoto library you saved prior to upgrading to Mavericks.

Reply

Answer 4

Eudine Author

Level 1

0 points

Jul 7, 2014 4:46 PM in response to Chris CA

I considered that too Chris, but since I can't upgrade back to Mavericks I was thinking there would be a way around this. The only backup I have is the one from Time Machine and I did when I had Mavericks installed.

Reply

Answer 5

Drew Reece

Level 6

10,660 points

Jul 7, 2014 4:53 PM in response to Eudine

Eudine wrote:

The only backup I have is the one from Time Machine and I did when I had Mavericks installed.

Does that backup have a copy of the iPhoto library BEFORE you installed 10.9?

If that is the case move the current iPhoto library aside and restore the old iPhoto library backup to the Pictures folder.

You could also do what you are trying (upgrade to 10.9, export images, revert to 10.6), but the error you are giving is too vague, we need the full message to have any idea on how to help you to upgrade to 10.9. I would try to install 10.9 on an external disk so you can view the library & export from there.

I think you will also need to do similar things with any apps that were newer on 10.9 such as Pages etc.

Reply

Answer 6

LarryHN

Level 10

106,110 points

Jul 7, 2014 5:04 PM in response to Eudine

Make sure the version of iPhoto you are using is up to date and use the downgrade library rebuild of iPhoto Library Manager - http://www.fatcatsoftware.com/iplm/ -

LN

Reply

Answer 7

Old Toad

Level 10

207,367 points

Jul 7, 2014 7:35 PM in response to Eudine

Downgrading a library to an earlier version of iPhoto

Reply

Answer 8

Eudine Author

Level 1

0 points

Jul 12, 2014 12:01 PM in response to Eudine

Guys, I finally found a way to retrieve my pictures. It was standing in front of me the whole time... 😟

When I right-clicked my iphoto library, one of the options was "Display Package Contents" (sorry but this is a translation since my Mac is not in English). By selecting this option I had access to all my pictures.

Still I can't open iPhoto, even after uninstalling and re-installing it with my original version, but at least I have my pictures back. 🙂

I appreciated everyone's help, but I'm giving up on iPhoto for now.

Reply