Reverting to iPhoto after Photos migration

I cannot use iPhoto anymore. It is greyed out in my apps and when I try to open it it says I need an update. Then try to update, but there is none for Yosemite newest version, the OS upgrade to which initiated all this mess for me. There is no iPhoto app compatible with the new OS anymore. So there is no reverting for me.

writedeb:

Go to the App Store and check out the Purchases List. If iPhoto is there then it will be v9.6.1

If it is there, then drag your existing iPhoto app (not the library, just the app) to the trash

Install the App from the App Store.

Sometimes iPhoto is not visible on the Purchases List. it may be hidden. See this article for details on how to unhide it.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4928

One question often asked: Will I lose my Photos if I reinstall?

iPhoto the application and the iPhoto Library are two different parts of the iPhoto programme. So, reinstalling the app should not affect the Library. BUT you should always have a back up before doing this kind of work. Always.

Exactly the same for me - thank you rightdeb i's not just me then!

Before going to the App Store to download iPhoto 9.6.1 be sure to delete any previous versions of iPhoto that may on your hard drive. If there's an earlier version present the App Store won't show 9.6.1 as available.

I don't know where you live Old Toad, but in the U.S. once you install Photos, you are screwed because the operating system won't allow you to delete it. Take my word for it: I've tried several times. IF YOU DIDN'T UPGRADE TO PHOTOS, YOU'RE ABLE TO RUN iPhoto. But if you were foolish and upgraded, it's all over but the disappointment. (Shouting does no good with Apple. They have become as arrogant as IBM used to be and Microsoft still is. Ultimately, the customer is in the driver's seat, but it can take several years to find alternatives.

I'm not saying to delete Photos. I'm saying delete any version of iPhoto that you may have and then go to the App Store and download iPhoto 9.6.1.

If one had been current on their upgrades and had installed 9.6.1 they would not be having this problem. Yes, Apple should have made it clearer but that's not their style.

I cannot get iPhoto to work again. I just today upgraded the OS and it installed and replaced my iPhoto with Photo,

It probably just exchanged the icon in the Dock, but the iPhoto application will still be in the Applications folder. Have you looked? If you see if there, drag it back to the Dock.

Only, if you have used an older iPhoto version, it may be incompatible with MacOS X 10.10.3. Then you need to update to iPhoto 9.6.1 to be able to launch iPhoto again.

Yes - having a long list of potentially hundreds of old events listed under the album tab is not the same thing as the old system for organizing events. It picked a random order, not one I would have picked, and finding anything is ridiculous. Years of organization down the tube. I don't care what date I took the photo - I grouped by concept, holiday, sometimes by person. I only used albums for specific purposes. You can delete in an album, but it does not delete the photo.

No one wants them alphabetically. Life does not work that way.

I migrated to Photos; found Events was missing so I decided to organise all my photos into new Albums and into Folders within the new Photos library, and then deleted the iPhoto events folder as it was now empty - very happy with the result - nicely organised photos in the new Photo App. Then I switched my iPad and Macbook Pro to sync Photos to iCloud.

BUT then found that the iCloud sync with all my devices, used the old iPhoto library complete with iPhoto events (but only part of it!) - I checked on iCloud.com - and the same situation - all other devices and iCloud.com are still reading from the old iPhoto library, not my nicely newly organised Photo album!

Thanks for posting this link to the Apple feedback page. I missed it earlier. MediaPro 1 imported all of my images from multiple iPhoto Libraries, but crashed when I tried sorting images. This happened twice. MediaPro dumped the entire import both times. It seems surprisingly unstable. I expect to install a boxed edition of PhotoDirector 6 (recommended elsewhere in this string) this week. Maybe it won't perform any better than MediaPro 1. I hesitate getting further wrapped in Adobe's expensive tentacles, but Lightroom might be the last worst option.

The version that you need to run are the following:

Yosemite 10.10.3 (14D131) + iPhoto (see screenshot).

I got both via normal Applestore updates.

As I mentioned before, I also compressed the whole "Photos.app" directory (into Photos.zip),

and used the terminal to remove the Photos.app directory (since the finder claimed it could not be done.

Just to be on the safe side I physically deleted the Photos library from my ~/Picture folder.

Agreed. So that's why it's important for all of us to tell Apple what additional features we want in Photos via https://www.apple.com/feedback/photos.html

I also have decided, for now, to go back to iPhoto. For me the main issue was minor but meaningful: I like the ability to sort Events (I guess they are now called Albums) by date. The Photos app does put the newest Event at the top but all the old Events imported from my iPhoto library are in chronological order so the newest is at the bottom. The only way to move these around is click and drag. (I sent feedback to Apple about this)

I was able to open iPhoto without problem after closing Photos and all my photos were there. And my old iPhoto Library.photolibrary file was in my "Pictures" folder as well. Opening Photos created a new photo library, and I deleted it without any effect on iPhoto. It wasn't huge (22 GB), but I have an automated online backup system that backs up my entire Pictures folder and I didn't want to spend the additional bandwidth and money to back up a duplicate unused photo file.

but I have an automated online backup system that backs up my entire Pictures folder and I didn't want to spend the additional bandwidth and money to back up a duplicate unused photo file.

You do realize that you can't backup an iPhoto library to an online site, right? The library must be on a volume formatted OS X Extended (journaled) for its ecosystem of files, databases, links, etc. to be maintained without damage. To date there is no known online backup that will do that. So you can save even more bandwidth by excluding both the iPhoto library from the backup and back it up to a locate hard drive.