Q: Convert iPhoto Events to Photos Albums

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!

iPhoto was not deleted from your hard drive, only removed from the Dock.  If you had iPhoto 9.6.1 you can still use your iPhoto library.  If you don't have that version but some earlier version of 9.x try following Terence Devlin's iinstructions in this post to obtain iPhoto 9.6.1 from the App Store:

Terence Devlin

Apr 14, 2015 11:21 AM

Re: Is Iphoto gone ? i want it back!

in response to Johannes666

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Go to the App Store and check out the Purchases List. If iPhoto is there then it will be v9.6.1

 

If it is there, then drag your existing iPhoto app (not the library, just the app) to the trash

 

Install the App from the App Store.

 

Sometimes iPhoto is not visible on the Purchases List. it may be hidden. See this article for details on how to unhide it.

 

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4928

 

One question often asked: Will I lose my Photos if I reinstall?

 

iPhoto the application and the iPhoto Library are two different parts of the iPhoto programme. So, reinstalling the app should not affect the Library. BUT you should always have a back up before doing this kind of work. Always.

Those are the only options when you Control (right) - click on an album in the sidebar.  If you click on the iPhoto Events folder and then right click on an album in the Album window at the right you'll get these options:

The options are different depending on where you select the album.

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

There are no apps that use the Events paradigm. So, no matter what app you go to, you're going to need to change your basic organisational systemm. You can also buy Lightroom outright.

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.

Hmmm...I'm not convinced! I'm all for integration across devices but Photos is a good example of where they designed it for the iOS device and have now pushed it onto the OS X platform. What was wrong with iPhoto on iOS in the first place I have no idea...it seems like change for change sake.

iMovie is another example - version 9 was great - simple to use, easy to organise...then they re-developed it for iOS and again pushed it to OS X, dumbing it down. It's now a nightmare to use and organise your home movies and not at all intuitive.

What's next?

PS - I'm sure you've seen similar articles to this http://www.macworld.com/article/1166865/why_apple_is_making_os_x_more_like_ios.h tml

I agree with these comments. We were all "guided" by Apple in the original Tutorial... Import your images and create an Event... now they pretty much burry it and take away all the functionality. Have to make an album then most it to event then can not sort by date. RIDICULOUS!

I also agree with the comment that we THE CUSTOMERS... THE USERS... post these comments to Apple with absolutely no response. They have no intention of actually ever listening to us.

Don't get me wrong most of the time I love updates but when I see change for the sake of change I just think some exec is trying to make themselves look valuable.

PUT IT BACK!

They have no intention of actually ever listening to us.

Based on what?  We've seen modifications to systems and other apps based on user input before.  There's no rational to that statement.  Of course there has to be enough user interest to warrant the effort to make modifications.

And you have to realize that is is only Version 1 of Photos and it's still in development.

Old Toad are you Apple?

You need to read the the articles that describe what this forum is and for. Apple are not here. This is users talking to other users, this is not how Apple communicates with its customers. So, you're correct to say that Apple don't respond here. But then you were told that when you signed up, so why did you expect them to?

Import your images and create an Event... now they pretty much burry it and take away all the functionality.

That is in iPhoto. It still is in iPhoto. Photos is an entirely different app with different capabilities and ambitions. Amusingly, as some one using iPhoto back in 2007 when iPhoto 08 came out, I remember all the folks complaining about Events and how they were much less flexible than the Camera Roll concept that preceded them for the first 6 version of the App.

but when I see change for the sake of change I just think some exec is trying to make themselves look valuable.

It's change reflecting the fact that the market demand is for cloud based services that allow interoperability between multiple devices. That's the point of Photos. That was not possible with iPhoto. That's a reflection of the fact that there are far more people with iPhones than with Macs now, and more and more people who have multiple devices. So, rather than an executive trying to do something, it's more a case of someone who doesn't understand it's a different app for a different purpose.

PUT IT BACK!

It was never taken away...

Photos is a good example of where they designed it for the iOS device and have now pushed it onto the OS X platform

May well be, but even now, Photos on the Mac is a more capable app than Photos on iOS. Faces, for instance?

What was wrong with iPhoto on iOS in the first place I have no idea...it seems like change for change sake.

Until you realise that iPhoto on iOS and iPhoto on the Mac had no way whatever to communicate with each other. The only thing they shared was a name.

iMovie is another example - version 9 was great - simple to use, easy to organise...then they re-developed it for iOS and again pushed it to OS X, dumbing it down.

Version 9 was great, but there a lot of folks around these part who will swear that 9 was a mere fraud compared to v6HD... For me, I sat down with a Windows user last week and in an hour got her with iMovie installed and working on her iPad and shooting and editing on a Mac. One hour. Not a big iMovie user but I was impressed by that.

Oh darn Im sorry you are correct I posted in the wrong spot. Id like to hear from Apple.