Joris Witteman

Q: iPhoto to Photos import incomplete

Hi,

 

My photo collection in Photos only goes up to 2013, while iPhoto shows photos up to today.

 

How do I reset Photos to reattempt the iPhoto import?

 

I have already attempted to launch Photos after moving the Photos library to the trash, but that doesn't make it reattempt the iPhoto import.

 

I have also already performed library repair, both in iPhoto and Photos.

 

My iPhoto library now has the .migratedphotolibrary extension, and as such I cannot select it as a photo library again in Photos if I hold option during launch.

MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2013), OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)

Posted on Apr 8, 2015 12:58 PM

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  • by Clem,Helpful

    Clem Clem Apr 9, 2015 1:07 AM in response to Joris Witteman
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    Apr 9, 2015 1:07 AM in response to Joris Witteman

    Here 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.

  • by Joris Witteman,

    Joris Witteman Joris Witteman Apr 9, 2015 12:48 AM in response to Clem
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    Apr 9, 2015 12:48 AM in response to Clem

    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.

  • by Clem,

    Clem Clem Apr 9, 2015 12:54 AM in response to Joris Witteman
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    Apr 9, 2015 12:54 AM in response to Joris Witteman

    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).

  • by Joris Witteman,

    Joris Witteman Joris Witteman Apr 9, 2015 12:59 AM in response to Clem
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    Apr 9, 2015 12:59 AM in response to Clem

    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.

  • by Joris Witteman,

    Joris Witteman Joris Witteman Apr 9, 2015 1:11 AM in response to Joris Witteman
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    Apr 9, 2015 1:11 AM in response to 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.

  • by blwilson48,

    blwilson48 blwilson48 Apr 9, 2015 2:14 AM in response to Joris Witteman
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    Apr 9, 2015 2:14 AM in response to Joris Witteman

    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.