IPhoto discontinues access to previous files?

Hi Terence! If they have cut off my access to the "previous version" of my iPhoto, how could I even attempt to open it? Will the present iPhoto version still be on my computer and will the pictures still be in it? If so, should I discard or uninstall it? Will all my pictures and other files be transferred to the new version? Like I told LarryHN, this is very scary to me.

Thanks for your help.

....goldie

Hi Larry! Strange, I answered your post and thought I saw it in the thread, now it's gone. Did you remove it? 😕

Perhaps I didn't hit the reply key. 😊

If not I repeat, I do thank you for your help, and I do understand the concise and clear message delivered by the note but I do not understand why they insist that I update when I am quite content with what I have now. What is really scary is that they can discard my pictures if I don't do what they ask me to do. Are my pictures stored somewhere else on my computer? I'm not being argumentative, I'm just concerned with not having control of my own files.

Hi Terence! As a sage once said "For you is Easy, for me is DIFFICULT". 😁

Thanks so much for your help, and you have helped. Without more ado, I will install the new iPhoto app, and "get on with my life".

You guys are awesome but sometimes you forget how it is to be a neophyte, or were you simply born with your knowledge of computerese?.

I sincerely do thank you for helping me, even though you think I'm a moron. 😟

....goldie

Thanks Terence! Frustration sometimes leads to self doubt and easily mistaken offense. Your response is reassuring. 😎

....goldie

Hi Terence, it's me again and I'm really shook up now. Not only has my iPhoto gone from 3,746 items in Feb 2013 to 30 items today but it won't even open a page any more. There's a great big 18 month gap in my backups which I cannot account for either.

My Time Machine gave me the three thousand items info earlier in this session but has now quit opening to the desired pages simply giving me the "info" regarding the app I'm addressing, re: Version No; Date of Modification (2005 if you please); and the rest of the pertinent info regularly given in an Info query.

Also, this thread does not show up in any of the AD lists. Contents has 20 pages and includes only today's threads; Discussions has 17 hours ago and jumps to 22 hours ago while this one is listed in Activities (the only place I can find it) as 21 hours ago.

As is always the case when I seem to have gone into limbo, I'm all shook up, but in the past you people have always managed to fix things for me so I'm counting on you to get me straight. However, I notice in iPhoto Discussions there many complaints about iPhoto malfunctioning.

I'm going to shut down for now and boot back in, perhaps to many hits has gotten things askew. I'll be looking for your response. TIA

....goldie

Much has happened since last night when the option/comd+option key action produced nothing, to the option key bringing up ONE Library only but with a reconstruction that is truly comical. Seems they have dragged my Spotlight graphic files and picked sundry pictures, logos, videos (1sec), etc.

I now have 3,702 items with 138 events, 90% of which I don't remember having ever seen. For instance 18 "Events" containing from 1 to 65 items which are apparently placards of some sort in Foreign Languages, (Russian, Japanese, German, Italian, etc.,etc.) Mostly though it's Icons. Thousands of them, some being simply duplicates, as many as 18 copies of one icon. That's how my Spotlight files look. Most of MY pictures are nonexistent but I have them in other files and can reconstruct whatever I want.

Time Machine has no record of anything before June 30, 2014 and that's totally incomplete.

Truthfully, my iPhoto file, at this time, is a complete mess. They are changing it to something new aren't they? I'll be interested in whatever they do but I'll be sure to save, in a safe place, any file structure I may create in the future.

Thanks again for your help Terence. 🙂

....goldie