How can I view my photos in "Events" like in iPhoto? How can I create events? I have 55,000 photos and 1700 events so the only way I can possibly manage my photos is using events that are one slide in size.

This gave me an idea MRYFLYGUY!!

Instead ofdeleting the Photos app & Photos database, restoring the iPhoto App. (6.5.1) & iPhoto database and starting again after reorganize iPhoto and creating Albums out of events ... agreed a real PITA but doable! You gave me food for thought so I tried this :

I selected ALBUMS in PHOTO

I selected iPHOTO EVENTS in the ALBUMS

I selected an EVENT (eg SAN FRANCISCO ... which has is a compilation of multiple events from various holidays ... not the chronological grouping I am stuck with in PHOTO)

I opened the EVENT and selected SELECT ALL from EDIT

Then selected the + from the top of the page, went to ALBUM, typed in the album name (in this case : San Francisco)

And now I have an Album of my Event in Photo!

Can you see a problem with this? Am I making double the number of pictures or can I then do away with the iPhoto Events Album when I have finished making individual Albums?

This may help some: if you go to the "iPhone Events" under My Albums and Control-Click on your named "Events" then you choose "Move album out of iPhone Events". This will create an album with your Events name. Chronology is also kept intact. I wish, however, that you could have sorted as I pleased.

HI!

I agree completely: WhatswrongwithApple? Photos obviously is the worst update ever! You cannot organize in events any more, you cannot hide pictures completely, you cannot add a geo tag!!!!, you have to delete face suggestions one-by-one (>10.000 in my case), your 400 faces are in random order without a tool to organize them, you should pay the **** of many to put your file in iCloud (well, that's obviously the meaning; to pay for 85 GB).

And after all, it suddenly doubles the space on your hard disk: iPhoto and Photos library!

And finally Photos consider my latest pictures as coming from iCloud. When I deleted them they were gone forever ...

Luckily not: I continue to use iPhotos and put the whole Photos file into Trash. The whole program should be there, but obviously, it's hard to that as well.

I'm really mad. Photos destroyed my weekend.

BW

HU

Julnot - that should work. I would just be sure Photos is actually creating duplicate image files before delecting the original iPhoto Events. In IPhoto, the image can only exist in one Event but several Albums. I'll try this, should work.

I had to reinstall iPhoto because I was at v6.5 when I did the 10.10.3 upgrade. You need 6.5.1 installed BEFORE you do the OS upgrade or you're left with a disabled iPhoto App (grayed out with a little do not enter symbol on it). That problem is compounded by 6.5.1 not being available on the Apps update server. I wish Apple would have pushed out the 6.5.1 iPhoto update BEFORE releasing 10.10.3 or at least warned us about the Photos issues. Oh well. There are workarounds. Change is good, right?

I agree. This change really screwed up everything. Did anyone at Apple think about all the people that have IPhoto Events organized the way they want over many,many years. Maybe 30,000 photos and 1000 events by name, not by any date. Now what? I see some of the answers but how much time and effort to sort the photos and events. Am I missing something here? Is there a way just to show the events like they were sorted in IPhoto. Very surprised at Apple for doing this. Is this some sort of money grab to get people to use ICloud. I don't want to use it. I am Complaining. I could no longer use IPhoto and was directed to this, Photos, and now I have this crap. How can I get back to IPhoto. Is that possible?

If you didn't delete your iPhoto Library on purpose, it's still under Pictures.

The only thing that happened - we both may hate Apple for this - is that iPhoto disappeared from the dock.

iPhoto application is still were under application. Just drag it to the dock again!

You will be as happy as I was yesterday.

And delete the new Photos library since this only take the same amount of your hard disk as iPhoto does.

Good luck!

HU

about a year ago Iphoto convinced me than EVENTS it was irreplaceable for the organization of my images, so I changed all my folders organization, but now Photos tells me that the EVENTS are not a good way to organize my photos...I am a bit confused

Go to Apple.com/feedback. They will listen! Most of the changes in response to feedback happen in the first 90 days, and when lots of us say the same thing, they will likely respond with updates.

I asked that we be able to name "Moments" the way we could events, so we can search by the names, but also still have the dates, and that we be able to sort in ascending and descending order (another common gripe) . I also asked that we be able to open and close Moments, so we don't have to scan through thousands of photos to find what we're looking for.

That's not the point. We had Albums before, nothing new. Albums are the same as folders what's the point? I have events which consist of old pictures scanned in last year and they are displayed out of order. Their creation date is the date that they were scanned and not the date that they were taken. How do I change the creation date on thousands of photos?

I had more than one event on some days where I like to keep the pictures separate. I would make albums out of the pictures. I could reuse the same picture in different albums. Now I have to setup a calender to keep track of Photos. Some people work well with dates and others don't.

I have over 250G in pictures and Photos is almost useless in organizing them. If I wanted them organized by date I would used Finder. At least then I'd have a folder with a name on it. Not every photo comes from an iPhone.

One last thing iCloud is not affordable when you have limits on your data and completely useless as a means to sync all your devices.

One more thing; cut and past, or drag and drop are very limited. It's not consistent with Yosemite. In an album you would think that you could copy and paste into a folder. you cant. To a folder on your desktop, it saves thumbnails and not the photos.

naderz wrote:

This may help some: if you go to the "iPhone Events" under My Albums and Control-Click on your named "Events" then you choose "Move album out of iPhone Events". This will create an album with your Events name.

I know this can be confusing, but "named events" in iPhoto Events are already albums. They were imported into Photos as albums in the "iPhoto Events" folder.

This is more obvious if you display the sidebar in Photos (View > Show Sidebar or ⌘+option+S). Look for the folder named "iPhoto Events" in the sidebar (it will have a small folder icon) & show its contents by clicking on the disclosure triangle to the left of the icon (just like in some Finder views). To move a named event album out of that folder, you can just drag it vertically & drop it anywhere the blue position line with the dot appears outside that folder -- basically anywhere in the sidebar in appears in the "My albums" section of the main window top level album view. You can reorder albums inside that (or any other) folder in the same way -- just drop it somewhere else inside the folder instead of outside it.

You can also create new folders & folders inside other folders, creating organizational structures much like the file view in Finder, & drag photos or albums into them. Both folders & albums can be named anything you want -- just right click on one in the sidebar & choose 'rename' from the contextual menu popup, or click once on its name in the main window view, to edit the existing name if you don't like it.

Also, since albums are just a way to group photos (& videos) together, one photo (or video) can appear in any number of albums you want. This does not duplicate the photo (or video) -- there is still just one copy of the item (which can be verified in the "Moments" view). That means you can add or delete photos from albums as you see fit -- even if you delete an item from the one & only album it is in, it will not be deleted from the "Moments" view & it will still appear in the search tool results if say you search for a keyword assigned to it, date range it is in, its title (if it has one), or its filename.

All this gives you some fairly comprehensive ways to organize your photos & videos that are -- once you figure out how they work! -- pretty easy to use. The big problem (at least for me) was figuring out how they worked because -- to put it kindly -- Apple's documentation left something to be desired in that respect.

You missed the whole point. Albums where there before and work just like they did in iPhoto. It's the organization of photos by date and the detail displayed by "moments", which took me sometime to figure out, is what people were complaining about. Photos no longer allows us to place the actual photos in groups under human names. Dealing with dates on 1,000 photos may be fine but it totally falls apart when you have 10K, 50K, or more.

Sorting by date is a nice option and that is all that it should be. An option.

You need to be able to segregate pictures which you just scanned from those that you imported. If you have work related photos from the day you may not wish to group them together with you child's birthday party. Placing them in an album does not separate the pictures, it doesn't remove the unwanted ones.

Basically allow to name a moment, summarize it with one photo in order to display more moments on a page and allow the user to group pictures the moments of their choice. In other words Events.

Now having folders that could contain events and/or albums would be amazing. It would help organizing the collection.

Whatswrongwithapple wrote:

You need to be able to segregate pictures which you just scanned from those that you imported. If you have work related photos from the day you may not wish to group them together with you child's birthday party.

I don't understand. Why can't you do that with albums or with albums & folders? That's what they are intended for.

For example, switch to the Moments view (⌘1 & if necessary on the right arrow button at the top to cycle to Moments from the Year or Collections view). Select whatever pictures you want in that view, then click the + button at the top of the window & select the add to album option from the popup. In the dialog box that pops up you can create a new album with any name you want or add them to an existing one. You can also filter items using the search box at the top, for instance by entering "January 2012" to see all items with that date range. Do a 'select all' or select just the ones you want in the album & then use the + button. (You can also use ⌘N instead of the + button, or select New Album from the File menu if you want.)

Granted, that might take some time with very large collections, but you should already have a lot of albums in the iPhoto Events folder.

You can then just use the various Photos (⌘1) views when you want to see things organized that way & the various album (⌘2) views when you want to see them grouped that way. Note that in the top level Albums view (the one that shows all the folders & any albums not in folders) you can drag anything in the "My Albums" section to reorder them as you like -- just don't choose the View > Keep Sorted by Date option after you do that or it will undo your new sort order!

Exactly Tom Atwood1!