How do I get iphoto back after Yosemite 10.10.3

The 'update' is no longer available anywhere.

Try Terence's instructions here Is Iphoto gone ? i want it back!

Cheers

Pete

See my User Tip, here: Get iPhoto 9.6.1 if you didn't update before OS X 10.10.3

Sorry but my iPhoto came with my MacBook pro so don't have a purchase in the Apps store. Without a purchase in the Apps store, according to other support folks, I can't delete iPhoto and then reinstall. And there is no update available in the Apps store for Canada. I tried the open iPhoto in your applications folder and found out there is no update here. So if I want to share photos with my iPad i don't see how I can do it without icloud. And with reference to being forced to use iCloud, it is getting harder and harder to do updates etc for Photoshop and Lightroom without buying the iCloud service.

Nonsense.

Pete

I suggest you 'phone Apple support. In my case they were most helpful, but I had continually updated iPhoto, to 9.6, since buying it in a boxed set years ago, and at some point had been able to "purchase" it free from the App Store - I think it was about the time of Lion or Mountain Lion being released. So it appeared in my "purchases". Also see my earlier post in this thread, but I think you have already seen it.

Good luck!

No problem. I'm in **** too.

Here's what helps.

Go - FINDER > APPLICATIONS > ( scroll to ) iPhoto.app - dble click

iPhoto will open, then right click the icon, and ADD TO YOUR DOCK

iPhoto will end up back in your dock. The program will still work with iCloud for the next year or so, or as I've been told.

So follow me advice....

Then do this -- Copy all your photos by Album, and by each album place those copies in a folder on your desktop, saved to a USB thumb drive. Then copy the remaining photos and copy them as well. Store them to the thumb drive as well. This duplicates your files, but now they are always available no matter any upgrade.

Apple is aware that the upgrade has a few flaws. For a whole 5 hours I had to search for my photos. I had 3000 photos that just disappeared. I had to retrieve them but I lost all the organizational work, no face data as accepted by the new Photo, I have to retag everyone in my library.

If you store copies by folder and subfolder you're gonna save yourself hours / days /weeks of organizing work.

Please see my post further down - it worked for me, and should do also for you, I hope.

Nickiwi

Why not continue to use iPhoto? Upgrade it to 9.6.1 if you can find iPhoto amongst your "purchases" in the AppStore - to see how, see my earlier post and other threads on the same topic, notably the one I started "I am flabbergasted". However if you cannot find iPhoto in the App Store (it has been removed from the main part and only appears amongst one's purchases) I suggest you telephone Apple.

The new Photos app is rubbish as far as I am concerned - it even seems impossible to see a file name with each thumbnail - and no way am I going to manually input file names or other titles under more than 63 000 photos!

Good luck

Hey thx for the input.

I use both now, until Apple gets on this. I have iPhoto and Photo next to each other in my dock. I've moved my files over to Photo, it took a few times to get it right, and I'm not satisfied. I've lost all my extra info, faces, color tag, etc. I've ended up with duplicates based on date vs location vs iCloud copy.

Its a little mixed up.

The problem is really my own. I was trained as a kid to organize my files properly, and I just haven't maintained it. I expected these interfaces to do the work for me, I never even thought about, 'What if they discontinue the software ?'.

My understanding is that iPhoto will work for the next year as everyone is getting used to it. The new Photo software is to replace Aperture, I can't see how so far ? But the responsibility is really on me to maintain my files properly. But as of yet there is no method of naming files, like cataloging Library books.

But there ya have. Thx.

We all have different ways of storing and cataloguing our photos. I can't say my method is necessarily good or foolproof, but has I think a reasonable level of security against data loss. I am a firm believer in triple redundancy,

Because I am paranoid about software and files suddenly disappearing, discs crashing, and even possible theft of hardware, I stock all my photos in folders, one (or occasionally more) per day they were taken (to keep them in order the folder names all start with yyyy_mm_dd followed by the name and place of the occasion, so easily searchable). THREE copies on different external hard discs, one of which is on my local area network. Each copy is referenced in one of two versions of iPhoto, for use on different generations of machine - my wife's MacBook Pro under Mountain Lion and my MacBook Pro Retina under Yosemite. Aperture can also read the libraries when I need its characteristics. So NO iPhoto or Aperture library actually contains any photos, only references, faces and location information, and occasionally modified versions of photos, which I copy back with a new file name systematically to the photo folders. Synchronisation is not really a problem as all is sequential in time - I load photos from our camera cards onto one hard disc, rotate those that need it, then just copy them across to the other discs.

I now have a new library for Apple's Photos - I copied one of my iPhoto libraries and let Photos convert that copy - so my photos themselves remain untouched. Just as well, given he amount of information Photos has left out - for example all the file names have disappeared, I just have bare photos, with a blank space underneath to put in a title manually. What on earth Apple were thinking of when they rolled out Photos in that state is beyond my comprehension.

Ultimately, if a new version of OS X no longer lets me use iPhoto or Aperture and Apple hasn't drastically improved Photos to the point where it may become useable, I shall either have to keep an old version of OS X purely to use no-longer-allowed software or migrate everything to Lightroom or something else.

No it isn't. If you did not purchase iPhoto, it came with your Mac installed and have not had an update it will not open from applications but will tell you to update through apps which will tell you it is not available. So you are out of luck unless you call support. But from what I'm reading on this discussion they're not really helpful on this. I am lucky as my photos are all in Adobe Bridge and Photoshop on multiple hard drives, backed up to the hilt, so I will only use Photo to share. Really ticked off about the lack of data with the photos now as it was a quick way of going back into my files. Thank heavens I onky have about 5,000 photos on Photo. I am also considering have my tech store take me back to Lion. Apple had to know the fallout of the flaws in these apps.

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Awesome dude. That is an awesome method of organizing image files, but what do you do about missing fields - date, place, etc - and how do you differ from edit vs. original, two different software package edits? ? I suppose just an additional characters. Its too bad small icons can't be added to the file name like an emoji.

After this I don't trust Adobe Bridge either. Although Adobe has had a similar photoshop program since 1993, but even that may change one day.

I think this is a lesson I should've learned a long time ago, about being diligent about my storage and organization.

I will warn you, I have found both the good, bad and ugly on this 'community' site. Not too helpful. I have had most of my responses 'banned' for offering solutions like 3rd party software and 'jailbreaking'. The common helpful response is - contact apple.

Any mention of reducing to a earlier format OS will be enough to be reported. I suggested a Hackintosh solution for someone with the same issues, the message was then deleted. So be careful.

One last thing, how do you update across platforms if you edit the image ? For instance, if you change any information on one file, how do you update the duplicate other two copies on separate drives ? Do a soft search and update manually ? Or have you an easier solution ?

EveryUserName HasBeenTaken wrote:

I will warn you, I have found both the good, bad and ugly on this 'community' site. Not too helpful. I have had most of my responses 'banned' for offering solutions like 3rd party software and 'jailbreaking'. The common helpful response is - contact apple.

Any mention of reducing to a earlier format OS will be enough to be reported. I suggested a Hackintosh solution for someone with the same issues, the message was then deleted. So be careful.

No need to be careful, dude. Just follow the Terms Of Use that you agreed to when you joined these forums yesterday and don't post about things those Terms Of Use tell you not to. Or do you always sign things without reading them?

Cheers

Pete

I have always loved Mac products. I used my first Mac at work back in the late 80's and spent a number of years insisting that my Mac go with me when I changed management positions. Then I started using Mac at home. I have two iMacs, one MacBook Pro, and two iPads at home. I have even converted my husband to the Mac platform! I have found this latest update to Yosemite very disappointing mainly because of Photos and a problem getting AirDrop to work. I hope Apple is noting not just the problems but the intensity of the emotions people are displaying on this support site. I truly believe the product should not have been released with these issues. Surely in beta testing they got feedback about the changes to iPhoto. It's hard to believe that removing data from files would be accepted. Too bad for such a great company. While I don't use Photos as my photography platform so don't have the organization issues others have thanks to Bridge and Photoshop, the loss of data makes my work harder to reference back to those programs.

How would reverting back to a prior version of the software be against anything? It's still the same product? My concern about reverting is that Apple may work something into future versions that will make Lion, etc not supported. I understand why they want people to migrate to the newer platforms as it keeps the development moving forward and means supporting fewer older versions. But when a new product takes users backwards in performance and functionality, that's whats going to happen. If my new tv isn't as good as my old one, I'll switch back. Ditto here. And if people get 'Shutdown' on this site, which I am already seeing, Apple will be hurting themselves, not users.