Reverting to iPhoto after Photos migration

Good advice.

My iPhoto library is over 16GB. Like I said, my laptop has been giving my messages about not enough space so i have been deleting anything i do not need, just to be able to keep adding images. So every little bit helps at this point.

One last question and I think I will be done.

I want my library to be able to be seen by all laptop users. Right now the library is in my user picture folder. When I go to "get info" it shows that "everyone has read permissions. Which makes me think they could view the library, just not make changes.. which is fine. However in dealing with this situation, such permission changes did not help me view the library when it was I the laptop's shared folder. Was that just because I needed repair issues? Or should I move the files back to Shared or some both place or some other configuration?

I want my library to be able to be seen by all laptop users.

That is only possible, if the library is on an external drive, not if it is stored on the system drive. Photos cannot open the library without being able to write to it. It will try to write to the library, as soon as you open the library. Everytime another user opens the library for browsing you will have to run a repair on the library, because opening will change the file ownership for some files. You can only avoid this by keeping the library on an external drive, where you can enable the "ignore ownership on this volume" flag. That is not possible on the system drive, because there the ownership cannot be ignored.

See this guide - the same will work for Photos libraries: iPhoto: Sharing libraries among multiple users

Thank you.

I am so mad that I was forced to change my operating system to Yosemite and thus to Photos from iPhoto. I couldn't get a book uploaded to print and they told me this was the only way to get my book printed. I got the book but a whole lot of problems that I didn't want. I miss the ease of using iPhoto and like so many others I miss Events and being able to organize my photos and edit them so much easier. Everything was better!! I cuss at Photos every time I have to use it. Why do they have to keep changing things that work?!

I don't understand, who forced you?

You still have iPhoto, why not continue to use it?

Well, I wasn't FORCED! I just had to change my operating system to Yosimite and use Photos to get my book to upload into the store for printing. I talked to many guys in Apple support who said there was a problem with that issue in iPhoto and changing was the only way to go. I am not a savvy computer person and I'm afraid to try the suggested fixes for using iPhoto now. I just wish they had left it alone. It was so easy!!

Have you tried using iPhoto instead of Photo's

There are no "fixes" in order to use iPhoto. You are simply making sure you have the latest copy of iPhoto on your computer so you can use it - that's it:

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If you were happier using iPhoto, then you should go on using it. Your iPhoto Library is still there - you just need an app to be able to use it. So, you just need to get your iPhoto app back on your Mac.

Cheers,

GB

I also am reverting to iPhoto for all the reasons mentioned, but I have a few hints that might help:

A great app called iPhoto Library Manager. This lets you divide all your iPhotos into separate libraries in any manner you wish. I do it by trips and by years. That way, iPhoto is speedy fast.

A great app called Photosweeper. Lets you compare photos face to face or in groups to delete near (or far) duplicates or similars. You set the perameters like close time, bitmap or histogram. A huge timesaver.

To me, those are the kind of upgrades I was hoping for within Photos. Very disappointed.

iPhotos has turned many of us into avid photographers because it has given us an easy way to edit and organize our digital photos. I have little interest in sharing my photos via social media. I find Photos difficult to use on my iPhone because one cannot modify the narrow way it works.

Apple is dealing with two completely different photographer markets. AND they have eliminated Aperture. How can Apple possibly think Photos will satisfy those users. I hope they recognize that or they will lose me

There is no Apple replacement for Aperture, Photos is the successor to iPhoto, same market. Apple are out of the high end photographic market.

Photos is a free app, never intended to address the high end market. It's editing facilities are already ahead of iPhoto, not so its organizational functions.

But judging Photos after it's been in existence for a few months is a waste of time, do you remember what iPhoto was like a few months after it debuted?

I have been a loyal Apple user and owner since 1985. Right now sitting in my chair I can lay eyes on nine Apple products in this room, and that's not all of it I own. I always try a new Apple software or product. But what appears to going on here goes beyond what you said -- Apple is out of the high-end market. Aperture may have been that but iPhotos isn't -- it's a typical, elegant Mac any-user program.

Of course I will watch Photos evolve but clearly it is intended to head in another direction than suits me. Otherwise they would have just upgraded iPhoto, or released Photos as an expanded iPhoto to service more modern needs or agreed to continue to service iPhotos.

I migrated one of my iPhoto libraries to Photos when it first came out, being sure all the right preferences and options were chosen, but half my metadata was lost. Nonetheless, I was going to start using Photos Jan 1 with a new Library but, after seeing all the on-line complaints and reviews to see if maybe I was just missing something, believe I will wait.

My concern is that Apple is dumbing down its product and abandoning many of us long-time loyal customers for the selfie crowd.

I said that iPhoto has been replaced by Photos, and that Aperture has NOT been replaced.

And that Apple is out of the high end photographic market, I don't see how that means more than what I said.

I always appreciated that Apple made sure its products were fairly complete before releasing them. Sure, they need user feedback and I am sure Photos will get better. Just hard to understand why Photos has less functionality than the previous iPhotos. That's all I was saying.

In what area (other than organizational) does it have less functionality?

The migration was not smooth, as I indicated but I was looking online to see if I missed something. I always start looking at a problem by assuming it is me, not the software.

Organization is everything to me because I heavily edit, share and slideshow my photos.

As I mentioned, the duplicate searching through Photosweeper and the organization of separate libraries for separate purposes through iPhoto Library

Manager are convenient tools that I now get from third parties software. I have not checked yet to see if they have issued a Photos-compatible version but it would help make me the transition if they do. Possible, but preparing to have to buy those again.

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