mystwillow
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Q: Reverting to iPhoto after Photos migration

Does anyone know if it is ok to delete the new Photos library from the Pictures folder after you've migrated your iPhoto library to Photos? This is the situation I'm in - 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, it seems to include all my Photo Stream pictures in my library before I'm ready (I typically delete a lot of dud pictures every time I import, now they are all mixed in automatically and I have to remember how far back I've gone through and culled), and there's no way to tell which pictures haven't been categorized into an event yet. Worst of all, there's no way to hide photos from all views. Not only are hidden albums/events not even a thing anymore, Photos "conveniently" makes a whole new album of all the pictures I didn't want anyone to see. So now instead of me being the only one who would know where to look for hidden photos/Events in my library when they were unhidden, they're all collected in one place at the top level of my albums view. Why anyone would want an automatic, top-level album of all photos in an entire library that were meant not to be see, I don't know. Seems to defeat the entire privacy/security purpose of the Hide feature. Not to mention, anyone can still see all hidden photos when scrolling through the Albums view.

 

Long story short, I am RUNNING back to iPhoto for as long as Apple allows it to be used. Now, I know that any changes I make to the iPhoto library won't carry over automatically to Photos. I'm fine with that as I don't intend to use Photos until I'm forced to. However, I know that at some point I will be forced to use it, and at that point its library will be (hopefully) several years out of date. Since Photos creates symbolic links to the photo files, I know I could easily have deleted the iPhoto library when I migrated to Photos, but does that work both ways? I guess my question is, can I delete the Photos library I have now, keep working with my iPhoto library until iPhoto is killed completely, and then re-import the entire library back into Photos? Or do my photo files actually now live in the Photos library package instead of the iPhoto library package and deleting the Photos library will delete all my photos?

 

Any clarification on my options would be appreciated.

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5)

Posted on Apr 9, 2015 6:29 PM

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  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Apr 29, 2015 3:34 AM in response to boy1dr2000
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    Apr 29, 2015 3:34 AM in response to boy1dr2000
    I couldn't work out how to add location details for photos which are imported with GPS details. This was real easy to do in iPhoto. Having the city was enough detail for me.

    You cannot add location tags in Photos.  I add GPS to all photos before importing them to Photos. And I made sure, that all photos in my Aperture library and iPhoto library that I migrated to Photos had titles, captions, and GPS assigned.  One more reason not to uninstall iPhoto before Apple adds geotagging to Photos. Not all cameras add GPS to photos.

    If you own a geotracker, these apps are convenient:

    To install exiftool: http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/%7Ephil/exiftool/install.html

     

    • Other convenient apps are Jetphoto Studio, Geotagalog, houdahGeo, there are many more ..

     

    I use Jetphoto Studio, but it is not free.

  • by emymui97,

    emymui97 emymui97 Apr 30, 2015 6:44 AM in response to mystwillow
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    Apr 30, 2015 6:44 AM in response to mystwillow

    Hi, I'm having the same problems. All my events and pictures were very well organized in iPhoto, but with the new update, the icon has a grey x on top of it and tells me to upgrade to the new version of iPhoto. However, that update is not available on the Ecuadorian App Store... can someone help me?

  • by LarryHN,

    LarryHN LarryHN Apr 30, 2015 6:46 AM in response to emymui97
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    Apr 30, 2015 6:46 AM in response to emymui97

    see this thread - Why won't my iPhotos open?

     

    LN

  • by DavidHenderon2,

    DavidHenderon2 DavidHenderon2 May 1, 2015 4:36 PM in response to Old Toad
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    May 1, 2015 4:36 PM in response to Old Toad

    Who is the product manger on Photos? Anybody know?

     

    This is the worst product I have ever seen Apple release... well since the original Mobile Maps.  

     

    Please stop reinventing apps that already work perfectly with apps that don't work.

  • by petermac87,

    petermac87 petermac87 May 1, 2015 4:42 PM in response to DavidHenderon2
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    May 1, 2015 4:42 PM in response to DavidHenderon2

    DavidHenderon2 wrote:

     

    Who is the product manger on Photos? Anybody know?

     

    This is the worst product I have ever seen Apple release... well since the original Mobile Maps. 

     

    Please stop reinventing apps that already work perfectly with apps that don't work.

    1. Do not use it. Continue using iPhoto

     

    2. You are not speaking to anyone here that is from Apple, or, for that matter, that particularly cares about your opinion.

     

    Try Apple

     

    Cheers

     

    Pete

  • by Pier-Yves Menkhoff,

    Pier-Yves Menkhoff Pier-Yves Menkhoff May 5, 2015 9:20 AM in response to mystwillow
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    May 5, 2015 9:20 AM in response to mystwillow

    You do not like Photos from Apple ? Do you wish to come back to iPhoto ? It is really easy with Time Machine. I did it today. It just took 5 hours with my iMac. You just need to go back to a previous version of Mac OS X. The answer is here for a English version : https://support.apple.com/kb/PH18846?locale=fr_FR&viewlocale=en_US, here for a French version : https://support.apple.com/kb/PH18846?locale=fr_FR&viewlocale=fr_FR. Of course, choose the last version of Mac Os X you saved just BEFORE you passed from iPhoto to Photos.

    Cheers

     

    Pier-Yves

  • by Csound1,

    Csound1 Csound1 May 5, 2015 9:25 AM in response to Pier-Yves Menkhoff
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    May 5, 2015 9:25 AM in response to Pier-Yves Menkhoff

    Why waste all that effort. iPhoto is still on the Mac after Photos is installed, and the library is also preserved. All you have to do is start iPhoto instead of Photos, it takes about 4 hours and 59 minutes less than your method does.

  • by Pier-Yves Menkhoff,

    Pier-Yves Menkhoff Pier-Yves Menkhoff May 5, 2015 9:42 AM in response to Csound1
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    May 5, 2015 9:42 AM in response to Csound1

    Sorry but you are "wrong". You can not use BOTH iPhoto and Photos. You can open iPhoto but you can not import or correct photographies.

    With Photos, not connexion is anymore possible with iDVD, Rapidweaver, etc.

    Only the iPhoto library is preserved. After, you have 2 libraries : the one of iPhoto and the one of Photos. 2 x 96 Go for me.

    In my case, AFTER MIGRATION, my iPhoto application was DELATED. By Apple ? I did not delated myself iPhoto. I just had a "forbidden signal" on my iPhoto symbol. When I tried to open iPhoto, I had this ± message : "Too late, you had migrated to Photos"

    Go to different forums, I was not alone in this case.

    Cheers,

  • by Csound1,

    Csound1 Csound1 May 5, 2015 9:48 AM in response to Pier-Yves Menkhoff
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    May 5, 2015 9:48 AM in response to Pier-Yves Menkhoff

    Pier-Yves Menkhoff wrote:

     

    Sorry but you are "wrong". You can not use BOTH iPhoto and Photos. You can open iPhoto but you can not import or correct photographies.

    With Photos, not connexion is anymore possible with iDVD, Rapidweaver, etc.

    Only the iPhoto library is preserved. After, you have 2 libraries : the one of iPhoto and the one of Photos. 2 x 96 Go for me.

    In my case, AFTER MIGRATION, my iPhoto application was DELATED. By Apple ? I did not delated myself iPhoto. I just had a "forbidden signal" on my iPhoto symbol. When I tried to open iPhoto, I had this ± message : "Too late, you had migrated to Photos"

    Go to different forums, I was not alone in this case.

    Cheers,

    I am not wrong, you are misinformed. You may use iPhoto, Photos or both of them. iPhoto works just as it did prior to Photos being installed with OS X. iPhoto is NOT deleted, but you neglected to keep it up to date.

     

    You need iPhoto 9.6.1 for Yosemite, you have an older version so drop your existing copy of iPhoto in the trash and then download the new version from your purchases page in the App Store

     

    Here they are. side by side in Yosemite.

     

    Screen Shot 2015-05-05 at 11.47.02.png

  • by Giomalagueta,

    Giomalagueta Giomalagueta May 5, 2015 12:17 PM in response to Csound1
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    May 5, 2015 12:17 PM in response to Csound1

    I really hate the new PHOTO. I lost a lot of EVENTS from my IPHOTO. Please, APPLE, give us this feature BACK, please !!!! And also, the GRAY or BLACK background.

  • by Csound1,

    Csound1 Csound1 May 5, 2015 12:20 PM in response to Giomalagueta
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    May 5, 2015 12:20 PM in response to Giomalagueta

    iPhoto is still there, stop complaining and use it.

  • by Pier-Yves Menkhoff,

    Pier-Yves Menkhoff Pier-Yves Menkhoff May 5, 2015 12:33 PM in response to Csound1
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    May 5, 2015 12:33 PM in response to Csound1

    Heil CSound1,

    Do you know what is tolerance ? Everyone is not in your situation. If I (we) say that after installing iPhoto disappeared is that this is true. I'm not the only one. Go for a ride on the many forums. Do you believe that it is for pleasure that I have to reinstall the system ?

    For information, I use Apple products for 30 years and I was journalist for MacWorld, SVM Mac, Univers Mac, etc.

    Stop to criticize and HELP... or MOVE...

  • by Terence Devlin,

    Terence Devlin Terence Devlin May 5, 2015 12:41 PM in response to Pier-Yves Menkhoff
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    May 5, 2015 12:41 PM in response to Pier-Yves Menkhoff

    If I (we) say that after installing iPhoto disappeared is that this is true.

     

    Except for all the cases where people say it happened but then afterwards found it in the Applications folder. Seriously, search this forum. Or don't. Just read your own post:

     

    I did not delated myself iPhoto. I just had a "forbidden signal" on my iPhoto symbol

     

    Oh? So iPhoto was not deleted, just won't run. Have you tried updating it?

     

    You can not use BOTH iPhoto and Photos. You can open iPhoto but you can not import or correct photographies.

     

    This is untrue, I can and am using both iPhoto and Photos on this machine. I can import to either and edit with either. The work is not available in the other, but they both work perfectly well independently of each other.

  • by Csound1,

    Csound1 Csound1 May 5, 2015 12:41 PM in response to Pier-Yves Menkhoff
    Level 9 (51,447 points)
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    May 5, 2015 12:41 PM in response to Pier-Yves Menkhoff

    Pier-Yves Menkhoff wrote:

     

    Heil CSound1,

    Do you know what is tolerance ? Everyone is not in your situation. If I (we) say that after installing iPhoto disappeared is that this is true. I'm not the only one.

    No it is not, you are in error. And so are they.

     

    Your error caused you a lot of unnecessary work, I would like to help others see the error of your way before they too have a lot of unnecessary work on their hands.

     

    Look in your Applications folder.

  • by MrPheasant,

    MrPheasant MrPheasant May 5, 2015 1:28 PM in response to Pier-Yves Menkhoff
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    May 5, 2015 1:28 PM in response to Pier-Yves Menkhoff

    Pier -


    Call Apple Support at 800) 692-7753.  It might cost some shekels but at least you'll get swift, accurate help.   Pick up a phone and 'dial'.

     

    MrP

     

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