We just recently upgraded to yosemite and upgraded iPhoto and now it won't recognize the pictures stored on our external hard drive. We have all our pictures stored there because the memory on the mac isn't big enough but now it won't pull them up when we go to File/Switch to Library. I've got iPhoto 9.6. Help please!
MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)
See if this applies: iPhoto '11 or later- About the Library Upgrader - Apple Support.
What format is the external drive? For iPhoto it MUST be Mac OS extended (journaled) -- how is it connected to yru Mac?
LN
It's connected through a USB port. Hmmm let me try to see what format it is in. When I click on the info it says it is in that format (with case-sensitive in there). It is a 1 TB drive with 102 GB remaining.
That is likely the problem. You should not format the drive to be case-sensitive.
I am having the exact same problem. I just tried running the library upgrader on an old library but even though it says my library can now be upgraded by the current version of iphoto when I click on Launch iPhoto it keeps going back to the initial message saying I need to prepare it with the upgrader tool! It's very frustrating. I just looked and I saw that in the infor window for the external drive connected through USB it says
Format: Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
Are you saying that the capital J is the problem? I don't see where it says case sensitive...
Yours is not case-sensitive. My remarks do not apply to you. You need iPhoto '11 or later- About the Library Upgrader - Apple Support.
jelaudi wrote:
It's connected through a USB port. Hmmm let me try to see what format it is in. When I click on the info it says it is in that format (with case-sensitive in there). It is a 1 TB drive with 102 GB remaining.
That is the problem - the iPhoto library must be on a drive formatted Mac OS extended (journaled) - you need to move it to a correctly formatted drive and hopefully it had not been permanently damaged by being on an incorrectly frmatted drive
LN
gakin wrote:
I am having the exact same problem. I just tried running the library upgrader on an old library but even though it says my library can now be upgraded by the current version of iphoto when I click on Launch iPhoto it keeps going back to the initial message saying I need to prepare it with the upgrader tool! It's very frustrating. I just looked and I saw that in the infor window for the external drive connected through USB it says
Format: Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
Are you saying that the capital J is the problem? I don't see where it says case sensitive...
You are not having the same problem - you have a totally different problem
You need to backup your iphoto library and go to the applications folder ==> utilities folder and double clic on the iphoto library upgrader to run it - then launch iphoto 9.6 to complete the upgrade
LN
Thanks, but I've done that. (please let me know if I should be starting my own thread; I don't know what the etiquette is; I'm not meaning to hijack it)
The problem is my old desktop just died - it looks like the hard drive is fried. I have time machine backups on an external drive, which I have accessed from my Macbook Pro which is running Yosemite (and iphoto 9.6; I had already updated my library on the hard drive of my laptop). The desktop was using an old version of iPhoto, which is why I needed the upgrader. I downloaded the iphoto library ugrader as instructed and ran it on the library in the most recent backup folder on the hard drive, after which it gave me a popup that said "Your library can now be upgraded by the current version of iPhoto. Do you want to launch iPhoto? However, when I try to launch iPhoto either from the popup or from the application folder (to a make sure it is 9.6) it brings up the same error pop up that says I need to prepare it, with the same link to the upgrader download which I have already installed and run.
Again, apologies if I'm hijacking the thread; let me know and I'll start another one. It appeared to me that it was the same problem.
Yes it is a different problem and should be different thread - as you can already see since there are two different problems the answers get intermixed and are hard for volunteers and future readers to separate - the OP's problem is the EHD format - yours is not
Try Back up your iPhoto library, Depress and hold the option (alt) and command keys and launch iPhoto - from the resulting first aid window repair permissions and if necessary rebuild your database
LN
Well, I tried this but when I ran it the message said, "Your library can open with the current version of iPhoto and does not need to be prepared with this tool." We also just tried to reinstall iPhoto and tried to reopen from the external drive but it's looking like it's already linked to it but there is nothing showing in iPhoto.
Sorry but a ThreadJacker introduced a totally different probhere making this thread very confusing
the answer to your problem is
jelaudi wrote:
It's connected through a USB port. Hmmm let me try to see what format it is in. When I click on the info it says it is in that format (with case-sensitive in there). It is a 1 TB drive with 102 GB remaining.
That is the problem - the iPhoto library must be on a drive formatted Mac OS extended (journaled) - you need to move it to a correctly formatted drive and hopefully it had not been permanently damaged by being on an incorrectly frmatted drive
LN
Ok, thanks but I still had a few follow-up questions this.
Larry and Kappy, two questions about this. First of all, how do I move it a correctly formatted drive? Do I need to get a new external drive and format it correctly? Or do I reformat the one I currently have to the right format? How do I change the format for either the current one or the new one? The odd thing is that 5 minutes before it wouldn't open, everything was there. Thanks for all the advice, guys.
formatting a drive is done using Disk Utilities in your utilities folder - it totally erases the disk so do not reformat if you do not have a good copy of all needed information elsewhere
Moving the iPhoto library is safe and simple - quit iPhoto and drag the iPhoto library intact as a single entity to the external drive - depress the option key and launch iPhoto using the "select library" option to point to the new location on the external drive - fully test it and then trash the old library on the internal drive (test one more time prior to emptying the trash)
And be sure that the External drive is formatted Mac OS extended (journaled) (iPhoto does not work with drives with other formats) and that it is always available prior to launching iPhoto
And backup soon and often - having your iPhoto library on an external drive is not a backup and if you are using Time Machine you need to check and be sure that TM is backing up your external drive
LN
iphoto problems with yosemite upgrade
