How do I get iphoto back after Yosemite 10.10.3

Yup. Read 'em all. I've never purchased iPhoto apart from OSX, which has been included in several new Macs. I've (obviously) checked the app store using my Apple ID. Nope. Not there. Perhaps the ownership of a Mac with any recent OSX version originally installed on it doesn't count as a "purchase" for iPhoto? I would think this situation would apply to most iPhoto users.

But thanks for the "help".

bit-mover wrote:

Yup. Read 'em all. I've never purchased iPhoto apart from OSX, which has been included in several new Macs. I've (obviously) checked the app store using my Apple ID. Nope. Not there. Perhaps the ownership of a Mac with any recent OSX version originally installed on it doesn't count as a "purchase" for iPhoto? I would think this situation would apply to most iPhoto users.

But thanks for the "help".

Unless your are 2nd hand buyer or your Mac is very old but If your mac came with OS X Lion or later: Accept bundled apps using the Mac App Store - Apple Support

Original "purchase" of iPhoto is shown in the app store as October 2011. There's an "update" button shown, but clicking on it just greys it out, nothing happens, no update is downloaded. It never shows in "available updates".

Your 2011 version is an older version and can't be updated. The newest version compatible with Yosemite is from 2013. If you purchased the last version and updated it to 9.6.1 from the app store, then it is still available for download in the app store.

If the last version came on a computer and you never bought it from the app store, then it won't be available for you there.

I just re-downloaded iPhoto 9.6.1 this morning. I know it works.

Fresh Yosemite install, iPhoto is still present but has the circle/slash through it, and won't run. As of just now, iPhoto (any version) is no longer in the App store, so iPhoto is now officially done.

No, just the version of iPhoto that you have. You would need iPhoto 9.6.1 for Yosemite.

My canon downloads also do not work, syst. no longer recognizes .jpg downloads from canon camera, Apple support WILL take your call and open ticket because this issue is caused by recent OS X 10.10.3 update. they told me they will get back to me, (5 days now), in meanwhile they suggested i use a "Compact Flash Card Memory Reader" to get jpg's into my computer, so I spent the $35.00 and it works like a charm. will let you know if they get back to me with solution on orig issue.

A USB card reader is a better and safer option for image transfer than directly hooking up your camera. Many of them are very inexpensive.

Yes, I know that's what I would need. It's not available to me, or anyone in my situation. That group is not small.

Just to add my final thoughts on the situation. I did manage to import my Aperture library into Photos, enought to see that Photos is really stupid and very, very slow. It's like a dumbed-down iPhoto, which was dumb to begin with. That's why I bought Aperture, and we all know what happened there. Between iPhoto, and Aperture, I have a bit of a mess on my hands, through no fault of my own.

Considering all of that, and not to ignore the Final Cut debacle (don't get me started!), I'm moving away from Apple apps as entirely as possible. That's a complete reversal for me. Lightroom makes a whole lot more sense, has a better feature set and doesn't lock your photos away in some proprietary database. I've test driven it for some time, it's my choice. I already use Bridge and Photoshop. I guess Premier is next. At least Adobe caters to the professional, and stays with a product for a while. Been a Photoshop guy since V1.0, that's a few decades now. No single bit of software from Apple has ever lasted that long.

And finally, if I can pull it off, I'll be back tracking to Mavericks. Yosemite is awful to look at and use.

Hi Andy,

If you just run iPhoto, it will be the same as it was. If you want it in Dock, then just drag the icon from Applications folder to Dock.

gl,

kel

I'll add my experience. After downloading 10.10.3 and discovering the new Photos program, I found after migrating my iPhoto Libraries that anytime I opened Photos, my CPU usage immediately went above 50%. It never got above 5-10% when using iPhoto and Photoshop together.

Also have a weird issue with downloading RAW files from my Sony a6000. They download ok, but once I open them, after 10 seconds the image goes wonky, the lower half gets weirdly blocky. The RAW files seem to still be ok, in that I can import them into Photoshop and they display fine there, they just won't display in the new Photos. Iphoto still works, and I can access all my old libraries, but can't add any new RAW files without the same wonky display deal.

There's also no easy way to setup Photos so that when you hit the edit button it will open in Photoshop. It was easy to do that in iPhoto.

Luckily, I've still got OSX 10.10.2 on another drive, and what I've found is that on my separate hard drives where I keep my iPhoto libraries, there are now two sets of libraries...... one set says iPhoto Library, and one set says Photos Library. The iPhoto Libraries still contain the actual files, while the Photos Libraries simply contain the linking info.

By the way, the key to doing a successful migration is to be sure and go to Photos Preferences and UNCHECK the box that says "Copy items to Photos Library". If you don't do that, when you do the migration, it will actually copy all your files into the new Photos libraries, doubling the amount of space you need. Of course, there is a downside to unchecking that box...... if you move your original iPhoto Library in the future, you'll lose the link. The other thing is to be sure and pick the correct Library to open depending on which application you are using. Load the iPhoto Library for the iPhoto app., and load the Photos Library for the Photos app.

Anyway, in my 12 years of using Apple computers, this is the first time I've had any issues. I understand why they are doing this (better cross platform interoperability), but I also think they could have done a better job of implementing it, so I think I'll be going back to 10.10.2 until they can get the bugs worked out.

I started the "I am flabbergasted" discussion that also deals with this issue.

And here is a more definitive reply.

I telephoned Apple (my new machine still had a few days of telephone support) and spoke to a senior adviser.

He said I should have updated iPhoto from 9.6 to 9.6.1 BEFORE upgrading Yosemite from 10.10.2 to 10.10.3 - as Yosemite 10.10.3, because of "Photos", puts a no-entry sign on all previous versions of iPhoto. So if you can still do this, it's the lightest solution.

He recommended deleting all instances of iPhoto, which I did (of course I kept copies elsewhere), I checked with Spotlight that indeed all copies were gone, and then launched the AppStore - Purchases. This time, for iPhoto, instead of an inoperative grey "UPGRADE" button there was an "INSTALL" button.

This duly installed a new iPhoto 9.6.1.

I had thought it was the presence of the new "Photos" that was stopping the update of iPhoto. Not so, it was the non-recognised iPhoto 9.6.

Many thanks indeed to a particularly helpful Apple Senior Advisor (all in French by the way - I live in Belgium).

Further comments:

- I also have Canon ImageBrowser and Image Capture on this machine, Yosemite 10.10.3 - ImageBrowser woks, I haven't yet tried ImageCapture. I can't remember when I last updated them from the Canon web site.

- At one point I had to go all the way back to a pack I had bought for Snow Leopard with iWorks and iLife bundled, in order to gradually upgrade their applications to, for example for iPhoto, version 9.6.1. I found the links I needed thanks to these forum discussions, not thanks to either the App Store or the Apple Support pages. I even have iWeb 3.0.4. Although I now use other software for web pages.

- Photos - a huge backward step, but the Apple Senior Adviser I spoke to felt pretty sure it would evolve - yes but in the meantime it is essentially unusable. I just hope Apple will not finally debar all use of iPhoto etc. in future OS X releases. If so, I shall have to also migrate to things like Lightroom.

Nickiwi

GGlad to hear I'm not the only one with this issue. Apple must have known this would happen. I'm getting tired of Apple, which I love, forcing its users to adopt new products they don't want such as iCloud. I'm having trouble sharing photos from my iPad with my iMac and MacBook pro, a problem that didn't exist until I uploaded Yosemite. I have a large number of large files in Photostream which now have to go to iCloud for sharing and I bet I'll have to buy more storage space to do something that cost nothing before?

Kootkid wrote:

GGlad to hear I'm not the only one with this issue. Apple must have known this would happen. I'm getting tired of Apple, which I love, forcing its users to adopt new products they don't want such as iCloud. I'm having trouble sharing photos from my iPad with my iMac and MacBook pro, a problem that didn't exist until I uploaded Yosemite. I have a large number of large files in Photostream which now have to go to iCloud for sharing and I bet I'll have to buy more storage space to do something that cost nothing before?

No one is forced to use iCloud. I have never used it but have never lost a photo. Try backing up your data (I use iPhoto..STILL...) to backup my photos from my phone and iTunes to backup other data. You are forcing YOURSELF to use iCloud. There are plenty of alternatives, just as there is for Photos at present. You can still use iPhotos 9.6.1 or Aperture if you wish.

Pete

Sorry, but if you live in Canada, you cannot access the update for iPhoto to allow it to run with Yosemite. I have a machine that I purchased in the fall with iPhoto on it. Of course with the latest Yosemite version you cannot access iPhoto any more. So I went into applications folder and opened, or rather tried to open iphoto and got the message go to apps store for update. And low and behold a message comes up saying "the item you've requested is not currently available in the Canadian store"!!!!!