Kevin Hawkins
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Q: Convert iPhoto Events to Photos Albums

I just installed Photos on my iMac.  I have taken a LOT of time making Events in iPhoto.  Is there a way for me to convert the Events I made with iPhoto into Albums for the new Apple Photos software?  It would take me a LONG time to make new Albums and then copy all the Event images into the New Albums.

 

Is there a way to automate this?

 

Kevin

iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3), 16 gigs of Ram - 3 gig Fusion Drive

Posted on Apr 8, 2015 1:21 PM

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  • by Terence Devlin,

    Terence Devlin Terence Devlin Apr 8, 2015 1:23 PM in response to Kevin Hawkins
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    Apr 8, 2015 1:23 PM in response to Kevin Hawkins

    Photos converts your Events into Albums automatically.

  • by Kevin Hawkins,

    Kevin Hawkins Kevin Hawkins Apr 8, 2015 1:29 PM in response to Terence Devlin
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    Apr 8, 2015 1:29 PM in response to Terence Devlin

    I See.  Photos made a Folder Called iPhoto Events, and each of those Events were made into an Album in that Folder.  Thank you!  It will take me a while getting used to the new system.

  • by naderz,Helpful

    naderz naderz Apr 13, 2015 12:22 AM in response to Terence Devlin
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    Apr 13, 2015 12:22 AM in response to Terence Devlin

    No, it does not. It puts them in iPhoto Events as an album by itself. You can move them out of the iPhoto Events "manually". You also loose chronology of the events. This is not good.

  • by naderz,Helpful

    naderz naderz Apr 13, 2015 12:24 AM in response to Kevin Hawkins
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    Apr 13, 2015 12:24 AM in response to Kevin Hawkins

    If you double click on iPhoto Events album you will see all your events. Control+click on the event and choose "Move album out of "iPhoto Events".

  • by Terence Devlin,

    Terence Devlin Terence Devlin Apr 13, 2015 12:39 AM in response to naderz
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    Apr 13, 2015 12:39 AM in response to naderz

    Yes it does. It converts your Events in to Albums. These Albums are in a folder - under the Albums section, the only place where you can have folders.

  • by Janet5678,

    Janet5678 Janet5678 Apr 13, 2015 11:10 AM in response to naderz
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    Apr 13, 2015 11:10 AM in response to naderz

    Thank you! So I have moved some of my (MANY) Events out of that folder with Control + click, but now I want to MERGE the Album previously know as an Event with another existing Album. Can I Merge Albums like I use to Merge Events and Photos?

    ps: the Photos Help has yet to provide an answer to any of my questions.  Did the Merge function completely disappear from all sections?

  • by Old Toad,

    Old Toad Old Toad Apr 13, 2015 11:12 AM in response to Janet5678
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    Apr 13, 2015 11:12 AM in response to Janet5678

    Can I Merge Albums like I use to Merge Events and Photos?

    Yes.  Open the source album, select all of the photos and drag then into the destination album.  When completed delete the source album from the sidebar.

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  • by Janet5678,

    Janet5678 Janet5678 Apr 13, 2015 11:22 AM in response to Old Toad
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    Apr 13, 2015 11:22 AM in response to Old Toad

    OK, thank you. Not quite as simple as Merge...especially when I could merge say the seven separate days of vacation into one Album... with one command + click.

  • by kieran485,Helpful

    kieran485 kieran485 Apr 15, 2015 2:38 PM in response to Kevin Hawkins
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    Apr 15, 2015 2:38 PM in response to Kevin Hawkins

    I had the same problem. There is a quick and easy fix. Go to My Albums section and then go into the album "iPhoto Events" and then hit Command + A (Select All) that will highlight all the events. Then right click and click on move events out of "iPhoto Events". Once you do this, all your events will be individual albums listed in the album section. Hope this helps. Cheers!

  • by tynegal,

    tynegal tynegal Apr 15, 2015 3:15 PM in response to kieran485
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    Apr 15, 2015 3:15 PM in response to kieran485

    I don't understand why iPhotos events appears at all under Photos, especially when I import to Photos.  What's going on?

  • by Old Toad,

    Old Toad Old Toad Apr 15, 2015 3:22 PM in response to tynegal
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    Apr 15, 2015 3:22 PM in response to tynegal

    All photos in the library will appear in the Photos mode window.  It's only the Events that were in iPhoto at the time of conversion that are represented by albums in the folder titled "iPhoto Events".  But those photos are still in the library and will show up under Photos, All Photos , etc.  The Photos mode window show the photos by Moments which are the new Events.

     

    The Photos app works pretty much like it does on your iPhone or iPad with the exception of the sidebar and some export features.

  • by Janet5678,

    Janet5678 Janet5678 Apr 16, 2015 5:25 AM in response to kieran485
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    Apr 16, 2015 5:25 AM in response to kieran485

    Kieran,

    What an elegant and simple solution! Not at all obvious to the casual user, and too late for me, but I hope everyone else who is baffled the Events folder uses your terrific advice.  Spent an hour at the Apple Store in a Photos class, their solution was dragging photos or events, or using the Right click/option to make each Event one by one into an Album, and then making more folders.

    So used all yesterday as opportunity to clean up, weed out and rename my events while doing above.  Since Moments collects all photos by date (my many, many scanned older photos are out of luck here, unless I re-date each and every one) I created/renamed Albums with logical alphabectical groupings, and now keep Albums sorted by Name, not date.

    And note to all, read the last pages of the on-line Photos help book where all these hidden Keystroke shortcuts are listed.  Don't bother to Search the user manual, pretty much useless at finding answers, but a full read through before attacking Photos is helpful.  Thank you, Kieran!

  • by JDfunky,

    JDfunky JDfunky Apr 16, 2015 5:45 AM in response to naderz
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    Apr 16, 2015 5:45 AM in response to naderz

    naderz wrote:

     

    If you double click on iPhoto Events album you will see all your events. Control+click on the event and choose "Move album out of "iPhoto Events".

    It doesn't work for me.. when I control + click on an event, the only options are:

     

    Play Slideshow

    Duplicate Album

    Rename Album

    Delete Album

    Sort By Name

     

    What else is possible??

  • by naderz,

    naderz naderz Apr 16, 2015 9:21 PM in response to JDfunky
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    Apr 16, 2015 9:21 PM in response to JDfunky

    Maybe we have found a new bug. I just tried what I had written before, and I had the same issue as you described above. But, I switched between View > Hide Sidebar and View > Show Side Bar and pressed command-1 and now I see "Move Album Out Of "iPhoto Events".

     

    I don't. I am really tired off battling this thing. It is not what I want. Try going back and forth on the views and you will hopefully get it. Good luck.

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