Convert iPhoto Events to Photos Albums

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.

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??

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.

naderz wrote:

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".

Thanks for the suggestion.. didn't resolve it for me though. I will post a new question about it and see if anyone else can help. If not will report as a bug. Cheers.

you are right clicking on the left sidebar which will give only those options. Gone VIEW menu and hide side bar, now you will see at the top the ALBUMS tab. Go there and you'll see all your albums (previous iPhoto events) right click there on the desired album and voila! there you have all your options.

Long story short don't right click on the side bar view, but instead right click on the albums view

Thank you, that explains the difference. Different topic, but can you tell me how to get back to the Tool Bar with Photos, Shared, Albums, Projects in the center?

Tried all the View options, only has individual areas. Maybe I messed up the side bar view as well? Many thanks for your help, Janet

Before loading the new Photos app , I did the laborious transfer of events manually by creating Album (using the same name), and copying and pasting photos from Event to that new Album. So, I had 1 Event corresponding to 1 Album (both same name). Sometime before the new Photos app had come out, it was becoming apparent from various posts, that Events was going to disappear.

I then Loaded up the Photos app (Yosemite update), and everything migrated perfectly. I do have iPhoto Events folder, with all my previous Events showing up underneath. I also have all the Albums showing up as individual Albums.. I have one big question as to the final setup. (next paragraph)

When I click on the iPhoto Events folder I get to see all the different events (I had in previous iPhoto) in their own windows with their respective names ,to the right side showing up. I like being able to scroll through to spot an event. However, I can't spot how to invoke the same capability, with the new individual Albums that were set up. i.e. If I click on an individual album, then I can see the individual photos within the album.

Is there a trick to being able to see All the albums that I have set up under one Folder, similar to aforementioned iPhoto events folder?

If I could be able to do that, then I would go and Delete that iPhoto Events folder (seeing as they are all made into Albums), and I could see All albums appearing under one folder,

Perhaps I have to set up a Smart Album, and drag all my albums into that?

Thanks "Old Toad" . Valuable info. So, is there any point to retaining that iPhoto Events folder any more? In terms of being a purist? It served its purpose during migration. Seems to me that now my combined Albums (each individual Album folder) and that iPhoto Events just results in overkill, or over indexed (if I might use such a term).

Maybe I'm missing something, but I'm very frustrated because when I used to import photos and iPhoto separated them into events by date, I could rename that date on the event into a more descriptive name (i.e. Cancun 2015). It was easy to tell which photos had been put into a named event folder and which hadn't yet been dealt with because those I hadn't dealt with yet were still in a "date" event. Now I either see ALL photos with no organization at all (one giant pile of all of my photos) or the Moments organization by date, which doesn't tell me whether I've put those photos into an album yet. In other words, there's no way to tell whether I've "filed" pictures into albums yet. Anyone else struggling with this?

i went to trouble of making an album for each of my events

before migrating to Photos app. Result: It created One album (Folder)containing all my Individual Events and then there were all my individual Albums that

showed up outside that folder as individual albums. Question: Is there a need for me to keep the one folder

that contains all the separate events? Can I just delete that folder? or Right click and delete Album containing those events? The reason I ask is that it seems that after syncing to iPhone you have that folder

appear as an Album on the iPhone (with all individual events in it) and all the Individual Albums showing up. Too many entries to scroll through.

What other choice do we have until Apple listens to our feedback and does something about it. Or you can migrate to a more professional DAM (digital asset management) application like Media Pro 1, Capture One, Lightroom, Photo Mechanic or Photo Supreme. You can lean more about these apps at The DAM Forum.

This has been the most difficult conversation I've ever made to a new program. Apple obviously didn't think this through. I don't want Apple to determine how I organize my photos with moments, etc. I want to keep the very careful organization I have created over the years with my own albums, which make sense to ME - the customer/viewer. No Apple resource helped me as much as this thread. I was able to move my dozens of Events into Albums. I very laboriously had to go through every picture I had scanned (family pictures from the first half of the 20th century) just before the conversation to Photos to move them one my one (since each one constituted a separate Album) into the appropriate Album. A lot of work! And all the work I did over the years on adding geocoord info is now for naught...

One last question. My Albums are no longer in chronological order as they had been in iPhotos (I had changed the dates on the photos to be sure they would file chronologically). They don't seem to be in any order. I moved a few of the Albums to the end so that I could find them easier to move the scanned pictures into. Under view the only option seems to be to sort by name. There must be a way to sort the Albums chronologically so that I can find them in the future!

I'm sticking with iPhoto for now but thinking long term I need a replacement. Unless Apple incorporate Events into Photos (I have filled out a feedback), I'm just not prepared to re-do all my events into albums.

Has anyone found anything similar to iPhoto? Most of the free packages out there such as Amazon photos, Picasa etc. don't recognise events.

I'd be tempted to try Lightroom but not now there is a monthly subscription.

Thanks

Thanks Terence...I thought that would probably be the case.

What a shame Apple threw away iPhoto for the sake of the dumbed down iOS Photos application. iLife was one of the biggest selling points for me to go with Mac OS X. I wish they'd stop making OS X more like iOS.

Well it depends on what you're looking for. The whole iCloud thing is huge, and something that a lot of iPhoto users were asking for - the ability to work seamlessly across their devices. The notion that they're making OS X more like iOS is not true, but they are making the apps interoperable. The OS has never been more powerful and you can run any number of alternative apps on it.