Reverting to iPhoto after Photos migration

Again, we need a definition of 'resolution' which can mean (at least) either the dimensions of a photo or the putative dpi, depending on who you ask... Others see it as some measure of "quality" without ever specifying what that means.

For Google Photos resolution it has to be dimension, because if I upload the same picture in the 2 way, one is 843Kb (2448x3264) and the other stays the same as the original: 3,2M (2448x3264).

NO it's not dimension, as both "high quality" and original are the same. It looks like Jpeg compression is what they're talking about. That "high" quality image is about 25% of the file size of the original.

How exactly did you delete Photos library? I've never used terminal.

Also, is there a way to get my faces that are currently in iPhoto into photos?

I thought they were supposed to transfer over but they did not.

I might not need to delete it, if I can get all my faces.

After I do delete it, if I decide to use Photos again, how do I reimport everything from iPhoto into Photos?

I,too, hate Photos. I considered using my time machine to go back but worry that everything won't work as it did originally.

THAT'S THE ANSWER!!!!! Thank you so much - There is an album inside Photos that is called "iPhoto Events" This just revived me from my massive breakdown. As others have indicated, it looked like all photos were thrown to a big ole shoebox; however, the album that was created automatically in the migration took into account all the events that I had created in iPhoto.

One real problem is that even if one elects to keep using iPhoto instead of Photos, all photo files are still doubled, and taking up TONS of

space on my memory!

I just hate it when a perfectly fine program is overridden by a FORCED new program... the hours it takes to figure out all of this crap is

just an unnecessary WASTE of time.

I second that "GRRRR' and add my "ERGH!!!!!"

One real problem is that even if one elects to keep using iPhoto instead of Photos, all photo files are still doubled, and taking up TONS of

space on my memory!

Photos did not duplicate your iPhoto photos. It simply created hard links to the originals in the iPhoto Library. Even if the Photos Library appears to have the same size as your original iPhoto Library, your storage should not have increased much; see: Photos saves disk space by sharing images with your iPhoto or Aperture libraries - Apple Support

Not true léonie= my omnidisk sweep show 30.6 GB taken up by PHOTOS and 25.3 GB taken by iPhoto.

my omnidisk sweep show 30.6 GB taken up by PHOTOS and 25.3 GB taken by iPhoto.

That's because that app does not understand Hard Links...

Not true léonie= my omnidisk sweep show 30.6 GB taken up by PHOTOS and 25.3 GB taken by iPhoto.

That is the confusing part about hard links. If you create a hard link, it will be a regular file, just like the original file. All programs will report the same file size as the original file has, but both files are sharing the same disk blocks.

Six Colors: The (hard) link between Photos and iPhoto

Apple has become the Big Brother in their 1984 ad. All the software they are creating is now designed to only work with other Apple products. As a designer that works with Apple equipment I send attachments by email to mostly people that have PCs. I liked Apple's Mail app but I found that the attachments would become embedded in the emails that PC users received forcing me to switch to Microsoft Outlook 2011. That was working fine until I migrated from iPhoto to the Photos App, which doesn't allow me to share photos with Outlook 2011.

I liked Apple's Mail app but I found that the attachments would become embedded in the emails that PC users received forcing me to switch to Microsoft Outlook 2011.

Have you tried the setting in Mail "Edit > Attachments > Always send Windows-Friendly Attachments"?

That should take care of that.

Thanks for the tip, but my Mail app has always been set to that. After receiving complaints from everyone I was sending email attachments to, I finally gave up trying to get Apple Mail to do what it's supposed to. Now Photos won't share to Outlook and it seems like Apple is punishing it's own customers for having to work with people who don't use Apple products and I don't like it.

When all fails compress the photos before sending them. When they are zipped, they cannot be embedded by Mail.

But drag the photos you want to mail from Photos to the Desktop and attach them from there, if you want to use Outlook for mailing the photos, until Microsoft has released an update for Outlook to work with Photos.