Q: Reverting to iPhoto after Photos migration

One real problem is that even if one elects to keep using iPhoto instead of Photos, all photo files are still doubled, and taking up TONS of

space on my memory!

I just hate it when a perfectly fine program is overridden by a FORCED new program... the hours it takes to figure out all of this crap is

just an unnecessary WASTE of time.

I second that "GRRRR' and add my "ERGH!!!!!"

One real problem is that even if one elects to keep using iPhoto instead of Photos, all photo files are still doubled, and taking up TONS of

space on my memory!

Photos did not duplicate your iPhoto photos. It simply created hard links to the originals in the iPhoto Library. Even if the Photos Library appears to have the same size as your original iPhoto Library, your storage should not have increased much; see:  Photos saves disk space by sharing images with your iPhoto or Aperture libraries - Apple Support

Not true léonie= my omnidisk sweep show 30.6 GB taken up by PHOTOS and 25.3 GB taken by iPhoto.

my omnidisk sweep show 30.6 GB taken up by PHOTOS and 25.3 GB taken by iPhoto.

That's because that app does not understand Hard Links...

Not true léonie= my omnidisk sweep show 30.6 GB taken up by PHOTOS and 25.3 GB taken by iPhoto.

That is the confusing part about hard links. If you create a hard link, it will be a regular file, just like the original file. All programs will report the same file size as the original file has, but both files are sharing the same disk blocks.

Six Colors: The (hard) link between Photos and iPhoto

Apple has become the Big Brother in their 1984 ad. All the software they are creating is now designed to only work with other Apple products. As a designer that works with Apple equipment I send attachments by email to mostly people that have PCs. I liked Apple's Mail app but I found that the attachments would become embedded in the emails that PC users received forcing me to switch to Microsoft Outlook 2011. That was working fine until I migrated from iPhoto to the Photos App, which doesn't allow me to share photos with Outlook 2011.

I liked Apple's Mail app but I found that the attachments would become embedded in the emails that PC users received forcing me to switch to Microsoft Outlook 2011.

Have you tried the setting in Mail "Edit > Attachments > Always send Windows-Friendly Attachments"?

That should take care of that.

Thanks for the tip, but my Mail app has always been set to that. After receiving complaints from everyone I was sending email attachments to, I finally gave up trying to get Apple Mail to do what it's supposed to. Now Photos won't share to Outlook and it seems like Apple is punishing it's own customers for having to work with people who don't use Apple products and I don't like it.

When all fails compress the photos before sending them. When they are zipped, they cannot be embedded by Mail.

But drag the photos you want to mail from Photos to the Desktop and attach them from there, if you want to use Outlook for mailing the photos, until Microsoft has released an update for Outlook to work with Photos.

Photos is a joke and an insult.

Worse than the Maps debacle in iOS.

Been an Apple user since '84 "skinny Mac", and all the way since, a s/w engineer, a registered developer and a stockholder --- but this is just too much.

Absolutely unusable.

So it's Lightroom for me, reluctantly.

Do you have a technical question about Photos that the volunteers here can assist with? I do not see one

LN

I have an iMac with OS X 10.10.2 and iPhoto 9.6.1 installed.  I have around 30K of photos and have used the photos as stills in iMovie and Final Cut Pro videos. 

I really like the organization management of iPhotos and after reading this thread I am really skeptical of the new photos app.  I do not use iCould even though I have an iPhone and an iPad.  I manage my photo back-ups locally. 

I have several questions:

If I upgrade to OS X 10.10.3 will I have the option not to install the new photo app?  Or, is the photo app embedded in the OSX 10.10.3 code and an individual user cannot make the decision to install or not install the photo app?

It's part of the OS, you don't have a choice, except not to upgrade.

• Upgrade to 10.10.3 and use iPhoto and do not use the photo app?  Is there a different installation process or prep work to do to ensure that this approach is sound?

Upgrading the OS and just ignoring Photos is perfectly feasible. There is nothing special to do. Remember that your iPhoto icon may be removed from the dock but it's easily returned. As always, back up before any upgrade.

• Or should I stay with 10.10.2 until OS X 10.11 is released?

Why? What will that gain? Going forward, iPhoto is over. It's no longer developed. Sooner or later some version of the OS will mean that it won't run any more. (Apparently it does run on the betas of 10.11, but with some issues. However, they may (or may not) be ironed out before release.) Sooner or later you're moving to another system to manage your photos. At least now you can explore the possibilities of the new app pretty painlessly and with the possibility to revert at any time.

I accidentally clicked on the new photo icon and it launched.  I closed it and when I tried, the first time and very time since, to open iPhoto I get a black screen and the rotating circle.  It will do this for hours but I can not access my images.  How do I go back to iPhoto as my default ( and much better) program?  I

Option 1

Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild. Choose to Repair Database. If that doesn't help, then try again, this time using Rebuild Database.

If that fails:

Option 2

Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. (In early versions of Library Manager it's the File -> Rebuild command. In later versions it's under the Library menu.)

This will create an entirely new library. It will then copy (or try to) your photos and all the associated metadata and versions to this new Library, and arrange it as close as it can to what you had in the damaged Library. It does this based on information it finds in the iPhoto sharing mechanism - but that means that things not shared won't be there, so no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your events, albums and keywords, faces and places back.

Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one.  

Regards

TD