Reverting to iPhoto after Photos migration

So stay with iPhoto, especially as it was so good it compelled you to buy 3rd party add-ons to improve it.

MEEE TOOOO! I HATE this app. I HATE that I am being forced to switch over. I hate all the same things you hate about it. Please please let those of us who love iPhoto continue to use it!

Then keep using iPhoto as many choose to. As long as you kept your updates current you can still use it.

Cheers

Pete

You're not forced to do anything, not even spell correctly.

I absolutely agree with what you said:

"I migrated my library to Photos but I HATE it. I am very invested in Events and being able to review each new batch of photos before categorizing them into the appropriate events, and with this new app it's like everything is in a giant shoebox"

I waited for El Capitan with the hope that Photos will be improved, but is still the same inferior product

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.

Albums and smart albums can be sorted by Title, by Date with oldest first and by Date with newest first.

Where the disconnect comes between iPhoto and Photos is that Events in iPhoto are NOT migrated to Albums in Photos. Events are deleted and everything is put into Moments by time stamp. We have tens of thousands of photos... Photos is never going to be any use to me without Events and Event migration.

In iPhoto you could drag a bunch of Events into an Album. Can you (in Photos) drag a bunch of Albums into an Album and still see the original separate Albums? It even sounds stupid.

Didn't you read my last post? All events in the iPhoto library were converted to Albums in the Photos library and placed in a folder titled iPhoto Events. You can see it in the sidebar.

that Events in iPhoto are NOT migrated to Albums in Photos

They are for everyone else. Have you enabled the Sidebar?

After the Migration you should be seeing folder "iPhoto Events", and inside one album for each event. Click the disclosure triangle at the left side of the folder icon to show the albums inside.

To reveal the sidebar enter the key combination option-command-S ⌥⌘S

I'm afraid my Photos migration is long gone. I think I got Photos with El Capitan. I tried using it for several days... I couldn't find these albums or any mention of them. I finally gave up and reverted to iPhoto.

If you can ignore Moments and Places an just use albums that is promising.

You don't see them on your sidebar?

The "Event" as entity is something different from the "Album".

iPhoto had both of these types of grouping, while in Photos you can only create Albums.

The albums break some basic rules of the "Events", e.g.

- a photo can belong to only one Event

- the user must be able to see somewhere all the photos that are not classified under an event.

Both these function were performed extremely well by iPhoto, while the lack of such functions in Photos, destroy everything for the users who want to classify in a systematic way their photos.

For me this is where my anger for Photos comes from and why I reverted to iPhoto and feel again "home".

The "Event" as entity is something different from the "Album".

Correct.

iPhoto had both of these types of grouping, while in Photos you can only create Albums.

Correct as well, but you do have Moments, which are broadly analogous to events. Before iPhoto had Events it had Rolls and we heard pretty much exactly the same kind of complaining when they because events. Yet, somehow, the world didn’t end...

The albums break some basic rules of the "Events", e.g.

- a photo can belong to only one Event

- the user must be able to see somewhere all the photos that are not classified under an event.

Well, not quite accurate. A photo could be in multiple events if you wanted to duplicate it, and use more hard disk space.

Not sure what you mean by your second "rule" but every photo in iPhoto was in an event and yes you can also view the whole library in Photos.

while the lack of such functions in Photos, destroy everything for the users who want to classify in a systematic way their photos.

No, there are many possible systems of classifying your photos and the new app has almost all the ones iPhoto had, plus a few more.

while in Photos you can only create Albums.

Not strictly true. Moments are based on date taken and location. You can assemble photos you want to put in a new moment in an album, select all and change the date and give them a new location. This will create a new moment on that date with those photos.

However it would be easier and more expedient to use albums as described in this user tip: Moments in Photos are the New Events