Reverting to iPhoto after Photos migration

Just remember that there is no guarantee that either app will run on whatever version of the OS that comes after 10.10.

> Trying to reorder 3,000 events is out of the question and it is pretty out of the question to go back and create albums for over 100,000 photos.

You are absolutely right about that. Looks like you can only sort events alphabetically. You could go through the events and rename them with dates as first portion of event name, but that's going to take a while too. I'm not sure what you meant by organization, but the only way of dealing with so many events is to use search. I only have 300+ events, and I am in the process of deleting some and re-package them into Photos album. It's a pain, but I figure it's time to move on. Maybe someone will write a little app to make this process automatic.

Tell Apple what you think of Photos and request additional features you want in Photos via both http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html and http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphoto.html since they don't have a feedback page for Photos as yet.

Joiede,

I sync iPhoto Events to my iPad. Was really hacked off when iPhoto was deleted on mobiles last year as Photos does not keep Events sorted in the same order as iPhoto. Now Photos is on iMac the same difficulty of finding photos happens. Luckily on iMac the iPhoto app remains and Photos can be left unused. I just deleted the Photos library and undocked the Photos App button and switched back on iPhoto as default for uploading new files from cameras as well as bringing back the iPhoto button to the dock. You are correct in saying Photos on iMac has the iPhoto Events folder, but the Events dont seem to show in the same order as iPhoto (by date of first RAW/JPEG file in each Event with latest at bottom. This makes easy organisation almost impossible. I am sticking to iPhoto for as long as I can, then migrate to Lightroom or other. iCloud for photos is unrealitically expensive if you have 100+ GB of pictures so I am really not interested in Photos supposed improvements to facilitate cloud sharing. I prefer to use Flickr, Dropbox or 500 px for sharing.

MIkeindc,

you can copy apps from time machine backups. I wanted a DVD burner App and copied the one used by Apple a few years ago. Saved money over having to buy a non Apple app to do what was free.

I fully agree. I have personally deleted (using the terminal since the finder does not allow me to) the Photos.app directory...

sudo rm -rv /Application/Photos.app

then removed this useless Photos Library....luckily the original iPhoto Library is still there and works fine

😠

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Message to Apple: the lack of event makes Photos unusable. Additionally the interface is childish and waste spaces

for working with many thousands of photo.

I do not want a replica of an iOS application on my 3000 EUR computer, I have an iPhone already and they do not need

to have the same interface.

I do not want to store my 100 Gbyte set of photo libraries on iCloud, forget this iCloud everything obsession. Most

of places do not have sufficient connectivity to support that for a big library.

I want to be able to batch change Photo Data (e.g. date or location) after import, Most cameras normal people use

do not have the right time configured or do not have a built in GPS i.e. picture are not taken always with an iPhone.

I hope that Apple at least reintroduces Events and stop trying pleasing the crowd of iOS users by transforming OSX.

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That's so funny because I remember the fuss in 2008 when they introduced Events and replaced Camera Roll. Move terminology about and this could be a post from then.

I think that the disconnect between Apple and amateur or professional photographers is huge right now. I actually understand why Photos works for many of todays users. For many people who are taking pictures mostly for social media, etc. it is a great format. I'd like Apple to understand why it will never work for photographers who actually use cameras (not their iPhones and iPads) to take their pictures, and need to keep and organize a huge number of pictures in an accessible, sensible, well labelled format that will be able to be accessed for decades.

I find myself tempted to go back to physical photo albums with labelled pictures - that way technology can't force me to have to change my format every couple of years and reorganize decades of photos. I know that iCloud is Apple's answer to not losing data for eternity, but it is expensive and impractical for very large numbers of pictures - and we can't control how expensive it will become. What if I have four decades of pictures in iCloud and the cost of keeping them there becomes prohibitive? Is a lifetime of picture files gone then?

Also, I realize that I can search for some long lost event - but there is also a lot of joy in scrolling through pictures - much like picking up a photo album from a shelf - and remembering forgotten events.

It is okay for Apple to make changes to make life easier for the social media generation, but Apple should be sophisticated enough to acknowledge it's other users also. The responses seem to be to stop fussing and get used to the new ways - but sometimes the new ways are missing the big picture and sorely lacking to meet user needs.

Don't tell us. We're just users like yourself. Tell Apple at the links I posted in my previous post above.

(((THANKYOU SO MUCH))) TO CHIPSFORTEA. YOUR A GREAT HELP.

THIS HAS JUST LIFTED A HUGE HEADACHE FOR ME.

I WAS GOING CRAZY WITH THE NEW PHOTO SYSTEM.

IPHOTO IS SO MUCH EASIER.!!!!!

KINDEST REGARDS.

BRIGITTE.XXXXXX.

> I think that the disconnect between Apple and amateur or professional photographers is huge right now.

Traditional form of (digital) photography is a dying art, and Apple knows it. Apple caters to the masses and emerging technology. There is no point asking Apple to take care of a small group of photo enthusiasts or people who would rather stick to an old dying piece of software. It's going to be up to third party developer to pick up where iPhoto and Aperture left off. Someone should license Aperture and develop it into what it deserves. Meanwhile, I use Photos as a sharing tool and I (reluctantly) use Lightroom for my other needs.

Richard

total agreement with this as I have over 60,000+ photos organized before this latest update that TRASHED all my work over the past 6+ years and the countless events I had ! ! ! Want to go back to to older way . . NEW is not always better ! ! !

events and albums are two totally different things in iPhoto !! ! !

I have 500+ events and only 5 or 6 albums

I dislike Photo so much I've decided to try PhotoDirector 6. I'll boot it up as soon as the box arrives this week. Meanwhile . . . because I used iPhoto Library Manager previously, I still have access to all of my pictures (and iPhoto albums).

For me, Photo's real sin is its refusal to transfer any iPhoto picture for which it can't find metadata, which seems to be most of my iPhoto collection. iPhoto doesn't seem to care - using iPhoto, I can do anything I want with any image. In Photo, I can't even import those image to manipulate them.

This is a big deal.

Fail.

If you have enabled the the iCloud Photo Library on the iPad you won't be able to use iTunes to sync photos anymore. Disable that feature on the iPad and you should be able to start syncing with iTunes again.