Q: Convert iPhoto Events to Photos Albums

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Thanks to everybody who has written on this topic.  Thankfully, I have yet to migrate everything to Photos.  My iPhoto has over 2,000 events so I am moving slowly.  However, I need to get a new mac and want to do a clean install so am trying to figure out how to do this with my iPhoto library of over 40k photos. 

1) Do I move my iPhoto library as is onto an external drive using this article http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/01/25/how-to-safely-move-your-macs-iphoto-li brary-onto-an-external-drive ?

2) Do I upload it to icloud drive which I think automatically means that it all migrates to photos?

3) Do I buy Lightroom?  I have no idea how this works and how my events would be handled.

If I do #1, will I be able to transfer the iphoto library onto a new computer or will it force me to use photos?

Thank you so much for your advice.  I really appreciate it.

THANK YOU. This was to easy for me to find it!

So moving forward, an you create new "events" or just create new albums as before?

debatchley wrote:

 

So moving forward, an you create new "events" or just create new albums as before?

Photos has no events  - Moments are the "new events" - albums =, smart albums and folders still are the same as in iPhoto

LN

I am directing my question to you because I have always had good luck following your advice/instructions.  Have been reading so much about iPhoto to Photos; find it all confusing and a headache.  My iPhoto Library was converted to Photos when I upgraded.  I am currently running iMac OSX 10.10.3.  Under the Albums heading in Photos, I see the Album titled iPhoto Events.  I assume all my Events reside there.

My question:  Exactly what steps should I take to convert the iPhotos Events Album to individual Photos Albums?  In this thread, Kieran writes:  . . . .Go to My Albums 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."

Will this be the best (easiest) way to accomplish the conversion?  I'm not so much concerned about retaining chronology as I am about keeping all the photos in an iPhoto Event together.  Kieran's directions seem clear and certainly would do what I want.

I would appreciate your take on this.  I am sitting in limbo with this Photos thing until I understand what to do.

Pat

No conversion is needed - each event is a separate album in Photos and the separate albums are in a folder named iPhoto Events for organization - you can more any or all of them out of the folder to the main album list or to other folders as you choose - if you open the folder you will see all of you albums matching your  iPhoto events

LN

All I can say is go thru this topic and see my posts, particularly my first one on Page 2 of this topic.

I actually, at one point, deleted that "iPhoto Events" folder that contained all my former Events that I had in my former iPhoto . ( I had no Albums in my former iPhoto), BUT that was only after I had created a separate Album for each of those Events. I guess, to enhance and speed things up you could "Then right click and click on move events out of iPhoto Events" as Lee Miles says, and that would create individual albums. I created an Album by copy/paste method , by creating a New Album, and naming it Exactly as the Event. I probably had 150 Albums that I had to do that to, so if you had an extremely large number of Events, that Command "A" method, sounds like it would cut the mustard. The reason that I deleted that iPhoto Events folder (or Album) on my iMac Photos was that I was getting confused by having an Event and an Album with the same name appear on my iPhone after syncing, and of course on my iMac Photos App. That was I didn't have any duplicates. By the way, again the long way, I just copied and pasted all the photos that were in my previous individual Events to that same name Album to complete the process of creating individual Albums. If you do decide to Delete the iPhoto Events Album that appears in your Photo's App, obviously make sure that you have created those individual albums.

I am in the process of helping out my wife now, who didn't update the to the last iPhoto update before the conversion, and therefore, she didn't have any iPhoto App left on her OS on Mac left, because of that: Only the Photos app. I am now making individual Albums of her previous Events, one by one by the method mentioned here. Hopefully I have answered a few questions, but of course, I might have created a few more to be answered. Keep at it, and good luck.

Lol, obviously not overly familiar with Windows either. Old Toad's point is simple. If you wish to try and maintain Events as an organising paradigm, then you have to bend Photos to work that way because it's designed to work a different way. Alternative options include: learning Photos way, keep using iPhoto or use some other app that works in a way you prefer.

this thread is about converting iPhoto events to albums in Photos - you can not possibly do that now since you deleted the albums that were automatically converted

Since you have a totally new and different question please do not ThreadJack  an old thread about a totally different question and start a new thread of your own so as not to confuse you, us and future readers - very simply click on the world "new" to the right of the "apple Support Communities" banner at the top of this page and include specific detatils about your system, your software and your questions

LN

Ahha!  All fixed.  Thank you so much - this iPhoto Events thing has bugged me for ages.

This is a useful thread, so I'll add my question to  it. If I don't get any answers I'll consider it buried in the past and open a new thread.

I first opened and tried to use Photos when it was still beta. I realised that a lot of useful features that I took for granted on iPhoto were missing. So I closed down Photos and moved back to iPhoto.

I know that iPhoto will soon become obsolete, so the sooner I get used to Photos the better, but I want to be preprared.

Questions:

1) I was pleased to read that the Events can be converted into 'albums' so as to work better with the Photos scheme. However, I was disappointed that these cannot be sorted by date. If I were to insert a date prefix in the event names (e.g. 15-09-13 for today, or just 15-09), would that solve the problem?

2) When I first looked at Photos, there was no batch change function. This was a surprising omission. Is there one now?

3) Again, when I tried it as a beta, the 'Moments' was a mess. My photos were divided up, sort of, according to date, but there were so many errors that it was unworkable. No point in having the feature, really. Has this been fixed? Might it have been something to do with the way that I have organised my iPhoto pictures, that I can perhaps fix before conversion?

Thanks.

was disappointed that these cannot be sorted by date. If I were to insert a date prefix in the event names (e.g. 15-09-13 for today, or just 15-09), would that solve the problem?

No. Wait until 9/30 when El Capitan is released with the new version of Photos.  It will have a number of missing features released as  can be seen from the following paragraph in this Apple webpage: Apple OS X El Capitan.

Photos has been fine-tuned to make it even easier to manage your library. Now you can add a location to a single image or to an entire Moment. Naming your favorite people in Faces is faster with a streamlined workflow. You can also sort your albums — and the contents inside them — by date, title, and more.

Keep telling Apple what missing features you'd like restored or new features added in Photos via Apple-Photos Feedback.
The feedback is working.

2) When I first looked at Photos, there was no batch change function. This was a surprising omission. Is there one now?

Not yet.  However, there are a number of Applescripts in the Photos for Mac User Tips  that will allow you to batch change titles and descriptions.

3) Again, when I tried it as a beta, the 'Moments' was a mess.

Have you tried repairing the library according to this Apple document: Repair Your Library?  

Moments in Photos are the new Events, i.e. groupings of photos sorted by date taken.

When the iPhoto Library was first migrated to Photos there is a folder created in the sidebar titled iPhoto Events and all migrated iPhoto Events (which are now Moments) are represented by an album in that folder. To open the sidebar if it's not already open use the Option+Command+S key combination.

NOTE: It's been reported by several users that if the Event albums are moved out of the iPhoto Library folder in the sidebar they may disappear.  It's not widespread but several users have reported that issue.  Therefore, if you want to assure that you keep those Event albums don't move them outside the iPhoto Events folder.

There's a way to simulate events in Photos.

When new photos are imported into the Photos library go to the Last Import smart album, select all the photos and use the File ➙ New Album menu option or use the key combination Command+N.  Name it as desired.  It will appear just above the iPhoto Events folder where you can drag it into the iPhoto Events folder

 

When you click on the iPhoto Events folder you'll get a simulated iPhoto Events window.

The downside to the simulation is that the Albums/Events can only be sorted automatically by Title. But they can also be sorted manually, either in the sidebar or in the folder's window at the right.  This will change with the release of Photos 2 with El Capitan this fall.  That will allow the sorting by date or title, ascending or descending.

Many thanks for your helpful reply.