Convert iPhoto Events to Photos Albums

I'm not sure I understand the above. If they come over intact as an album (or moment or whatever they want to call them) then that is great.

Remember that the photos in album are only pointers to the real image file which are in the Moments. Just like photos in Albums in iPhoto are only pointers to the real image file in the Events. So if you delete the album the photos will still be in the library among the Moments.

I Do understand that the albums in the current iPhoto are only pointers to the real file. This is why I am concerned that these iPhoto albums will not transfer to the new Photos intact. Since they are pointers, the real files are scattered over several years worth of events. With almost 450gb of images, it would take forever to round them all up again.

I Ordered a new iMac last week so I haven't yet seen the new Photos. The only experience I have with it is the Photos apps on my iPhone and iPad.

SInce I just purchased the new iMac I am eligible for the One on One program, and I think I will take advantage of it. Yes, I do know it's being discontinued but if I sign up for it by the end of Sept. they will honor it for a year. After a year, I should have the iMac and all my other Apple devices set up.

I have a similar problem that I hope some of you obvious experts can help with.

I migrated to Photos.

Set my IOS devices to sync with Photos. Also selectively not to sync the old iPhotos Events albums.

However,, each time I do an IOS upgrade, these events albums reappear on my iDevice. It happens both with my iPhone 6 and iPad Air 2. It happened both with Yosemite and El Capitan. I had even deleted the iPhotos Events folder in Photos.

Each time I do an IOS update, they reappear and I have to make a change to what is to be synced, do a sync, and set it back again just to get back to where I want.

Help!

CB

Yes, this puts all 125 of my iPhoto events in the new Albums area, but now they are in random order. How do I retain the proper order (as I defined it when I organized all these)? Fortunately I was able to "undo" this goof, but I'm still where I was, unable to add new photos to my system or drag them into new or old events. Any ideas?

How do I retain the proper order (as I defined it when I organized all these)?

By placing a number in front of the folder name haha

Photos moments is completely ********. I have many events with over a thousand photos in them and to not be able to collapse the moments down like events in iphotos is a real drain.

Mimicking the events folders in iphotos can be done by creating an events folder (as a new folder) and subsequent yearly folders (same as events folder, new folder eg 2008, 2009, 2010...2015) and THEN subsequent smart folders for months with date - is in the range (eg 1/1/2015 to 31/1/2015) and placing a number for the month at the beginning of the folder name (eg. 01 JAN, 02 FEB, 03 MAR...12 DEC haha like good old windows).

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How do you "move my dozens of Events into Albums" (per Bamidbar)?? I've spent much time working/organizing my "Events" in iPhoto and I don't want to lose that work! i've been searching for Photos Tutorials but have found nothing specific enough to help!

I waited until all the issues with office seemed to be resolved and I saw people upgrading without too many problems. I upgraded to El Capitan a few days ago and everything seems to be working OK except Photos. I have 9600 photos sorted very carefully into 60 events on IPhoto. None of them are in the Photo app. The only thing I can see are the photo stream albums and about half of the photos that were in photo stream on my phone. I can still use IPhoto and all of my photos & events are there. I also have many events on my IPhone that I move when I sync my phone to my Macbook.

Many of your posts said that the photos would automatically move to Photo and show up on the side bar under IPhoto Events - but that is not listed on my sidebar? Any suggestions? I do not want to pay for Cloud storage - I back up all my old photos onto mini hard drives so I can find them when I need them after I remove them from my MacBook.

no - I was never asked or prompted to do that? Are there steps to do that? Will my events migrate intact into Albums with the same names? some of the posts I have read indicate that the photos are all mixed up - I have to many photos to resort them. Should I just keep using IPhoto? Don't want a big mess to straighten out. Thanks for your help

Hold down the option (or alt) key key and launch Photos. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library'

This will migrate your iPhoto to Library but also leave it untouched, so if you don't like it you can just launch iPhoto and pick up where you left off.

worked like a charm - thanks for you help - funny that when I did a search for how to move events from iPhoto to Photo - some very complicated answers came up and most complained of problems. So glad I can keep iPhoto and go back to it if I do not like Photo. Some old events that were empty and had been deleted came up but I just deleted them. So easy.

Only issue - lost my screen saver - photos were in an event. When I open System Preferences - Screen Saver and go to Photo Library - none of the stuff I migrated over is there - just there few photos that were in Photo originally - just he 50 photos from last 30 days PhotoStream. I rebooted but still not showing up when I want to selected for my screen saver tiles. Not a big deal but would be nice if the choices were there.

Ok. So like many I have faced the iPhotos vs Photos conundrum ... the issue of managing an evergrowing Photo.Library eating my HD space, the issue of migrating all my iPhoto libraries on external drives to Photos and the ongoing issue of creating and managing multiple Photo.Libraries on external HDs when only one can be synched via iTunes....

I have browsed many forums and discussions and even spoken face to face with the local Geniuses and sadly found that although the Geniuses can be very helpful in debugging and installation issues they just did not have the experience or best practice tips on how to run iPhotos/Photos over an extended period of time.

However thanks to this discussion - and in particular the clarity of Terence Devlin's and Old Toad's posts .... and the discovery of another utility PowerPhotos (from fatcat software) I have decided to embrace Photos as my path forward. Terence and Old Toad's insight allowed me to bridge my workflow from iPhoto to Photos and hence stay aligned with Apple's direction, PowerPhotos gave me the ability to manage multiple libraries on separate devices - split/merge libraries, even migrate the iPhoto libraries I had on external devices to Photos format etc etc. It was the missing link for me that made Photos workable without having to commit to a full blown DAM such as Lightroom etc.

I can now have a "main" or default Photo Library on my HD which syncs with my other devices via iTunes or iCloud and it is the default into which I can upload all my new photos and videos. I can then with PowerPhoto drag/drop Albums, Photos, Videos etc out of this default library into other Photo Libraries on my HD or external HDs so that I can manage my iCloud or HD disk space. I can have all my libraries visible and accessible at the same time so that I can see what is inside them and decide where its best to move the photos. This works for me.

I understand that a DAM offers much much more, but reading the many discussions I see that many people are like me, we just want an easier way to manage our family snaps and videos and at the same time stay aligned to Apple's direction. I am posting this here in the hope that my summary helps someone else avoid spending the days I have spent on researching this topic.

I have over 150 "albums" that are one photo each in the iPhoto events. They are called Nov 23 2002, Dec 1 2002, Jan 5 2004. It is awesome. I also have quadruplicates of photos that I don't want, and can't find photos that I do want. Everytime I come into PHOTOS to look for something it is truly mindboggling ... as time has gone on, I really just keep downloading photos so they exist somewhere and have practically given up trying to sort anything. I just spent about 2 hrs just scrolling and swiping to the point my finger(s) hurt.

yu need to start a new thread including what yu have and what you want to do

Thi thread is aobut converting iPhoto events to Photos albums and that is not what you want so you need to explain exactly what you do want in a new thread

LN

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.

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".