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Apr 9, 2015 1:07 AM in response to Joris Wittemanby Clem,★HelpfulHere is the support article about this: If Photos won't open a library that you already migrated - Apple Support
You don't need to repair anything. Essentially, reopen your iPhoto in iPhoto then quit. Then open it/migrate it in Photos again. Make sure you delete your library in the trash first.
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Apr 9, 2015 12:48 AM in response to Clemby Joris Witteman,Thank you, you are offering steps I had not tried before. However they do not work for me. I have now tried:
- Delete my Photos library and empty trash.
- Doubleclick the migrated iPhoto library.
- Click Open Photos in the dialog that says "Your photo library has been migrated to Photos."
Photos opens and says it can't find a library to work with. I say Create New. Photos opens in its empty state and offers a few suggestions to get started, that don't include (re)importing iPhoto.
I also tried:
- Delete my Photos library and empty trash.
- Drag the migrated iPhoto library onto Photos.
- Click Open Photos in the dialog that says "Your photo library has already been migrated to Photos."
Photos opens and says it can't find a library to work with. I say Create New. Photos opens in its empty state and offers a few suggestions to get started, that don't include (re)importing iPhoto.
Even opening the migrated library in Photos after it has a newly created System Library ready, will not trigger it to do anything with the opened migrated iPhoto library.
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Apr 9, 2015 12:54 AM in response to Joris Wittemanby Clem,When you double-clicked on the migrated iPhoto library you should have opened it in iPhoto, not Photos. You can't do anything (in Photos) with the migrated iPhoto library until you open it in iPhoto, then quit. Unfortunately it looked like you skipped that step and so you wound up back where you were before (but no better off since you didn't have the Photos lib any longer).
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Apr 9, 2015 12:59 AM in response to Clemby Joris Witteman,To follow up on this: Another thing I tried after this, is to just open iPhoto once again.
iPhoto this time said it needed to update its library to work with this version of iPhoto. It did that, and now iPhoto too is missing 2015 and 2014.
After this, I opened Photos, and it is now importing iPhoto like it did the first time. I however have little hope that I will see 2014 and 2015 once it's finished.
I will go back to the office, restore a Time Machine backup and then reimport as much as I can from my iPhone.
All my going back and forth between iPhoto and Photos aside, the main point of my thread is that iPhoto and Photos both lost several years of my photo collection after this update.
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Apr 9, 2015 1:11 AM in response to Joris Wittemanby Joris Witteman,Shocked to learn that if I do a Show Package Contents on the iPhoto library, then open Originals, even the photo files in there only go up to 2013 now, while before the last iPhoto library 'upgrade', iPhoto had all my photos. So there really is a destructive bug in iPhoto/Photos' library upgrade mechanism.
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Apr 9, 2015 2:14 AM in response to Joris Wittemanby blwilson48,As in my other posts,this is exactly the same conclusion I have come to. I really think the answer is to stick with iPhoto.