Newkkl
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Q: Photos 1.0 - dates wrong, photos missing, no order

As I look through my photos in Photos (Who thought that name was a good idea? Every posting with the word "photos" in it shows up in search results! Dumb!) I notice that photos are missing, entire albums are missing, the dates are wrong on about 75% of the images, and they are showing up in who the heck knows what sort order - perhaps random? Evidently my parents were just married last week.

 

Ahem.

 

Help. 

 

Thank you -Karen

iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2013), OS X Yosemite (10.10.2)

Posted on Apr 11, 2015 6:16 PM

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  • by Winston Churchill,

    Winston Churchill Winston Churchill Apr 11, 2015 6:24 PM in response to Newkkl
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    Apr 11, 2015 6:24 PM in response to Newkkl

    In respect of the order, you are likely looking in the all photos album, which displays in the order photos are added and not the date they were taken. Try enabling the sidebar (⌥⌘S) and choosing 'photos from the top of the sidebar.

     

    As for wrong dates, are you sure the dates weren't wrong to begin with (since this would result in a different approach to resolving the matter) Go back to iPhoto, reveal in the finder, open in preview and check the metadata.

  • by Newkkl,

    Newkkl Newkkl Apr 11, 2015 6:48 PM in response to Winston Churchill
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    Apr 11, 2015 6:48 PM in response to Winston Churchill

    Thanks, will give it a try, and will look at metadata. I'll be back to report what I find.

  • by Newkkl,

    Newkkl Newkkl Apr 11, 2015 7:00 PM in response to Newkkl
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    Apr 11, 2015 7:00 PM in response to Newkkl

    Thank you Winston, mostly for saving Western civilization, but also for the pointer about going to "Photos" vs. "All Photos".


    Now if I can figure out where the heck all my photos from 2009 through 2013 have vanished off to, maybe I can relax.

  • by Winston Churchill,

    Winston Churchill Winston Churchill Apr 11, 2015 7:25 PM in response to Newkkl
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    Apr 11, 2015 7:25 PM in response to Newkkl

    If you know the filename or title you can search for your photo.

  • by Chillvol,

    Chillvol Chillvol Apr 12, 2015 2:14 PM in response to Newkkl
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    Apr 12, 2015 2:14 PM in response to Newkkl

    Same experience here. I just updated to OSX Photos and everything is out of order. As a bonus, these out of order images have brand new dates under image info. Its like I had all my photos carefully organized in a box under the bed and a child opened the box, dumped them on the floor, and swirled them around until everything was completely out of order. Anyone else experience this or have a fix for images imported from iPhoto that now have the wrong dates in OSX Photos? I'm also getting the same experience regardless of Photo's or All Photos after doing ⌥⌘S.

  • by Newkkl,

    Newkkl Newkkl Apr 12, 2015 5:43 PM in response to Chillvol
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    Apr 12, 2015 5:43 PM in response to Chillvol

    Try Winston's suggestion above about using the All Photos album logo instead of the Photos icon that appears at the very top of the sidebar. Still looking for my missing photos...

  • by sweetcaro,

    sweetcaro sweetcaro Apr 25, 2015 1:27 PM in response to Newkkl
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    Apr 25, 2015 1:27 PM in response to Newkkl

    All my albums are gone! : (: (

    Does anyone know how to bring back all albums, books, projects from previous version?

  • by Old Toad,

    Old Toad Old Toad Apr 25, 2015 1:51 PM in response to Newkkl
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    Apr 25, 2015 1:51 PM in response to Newkkl

    Moments in Photo are the new Events, i.e. groupings of photos sorted by date taken.

     

    When the iPhoto Library was first migrated to Photos there was 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.

     

    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.

    The downside to the simulation is that the Album/Events can only be sorted automatically by Title. But they can also be sorted manually, either in the sidebar or in the folder's window at the right.

     

    Ask Apple for more sorting options in Photos via https://www.apple.com/feedback/photos.html.

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  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Apr 25, 2015 2:03 PM in response to sweetcaro
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    Apr 25, 2015 2:03 PM in response to sweetcaro
    Does anyone know how to bring back all albums, books, projects from previous version?

    Your regular albums should be visible in the Albums section of the sidebar.

    Books and other projects will have been migrated as albums, but not as projects, sinc the projects are using different templates in Photos.

     

    Smart albums will only have been migrated, if the smart rules can be recreated in Photos. Since Photos has no events, any smart albums using rules based on events could not have been migrated.

  • by sweetcaro,

    sweetcaro sweetcaro Apr 25, 2015 3:34 PM in response to léonie
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    Apr 25, 2015 3:34 PM in response to léonie

    I wish

    there are no albums at all

    i'm missing ALL photos from previous version all I can see are icloud photos

    how do I bring back all my photos?

  • by Rysz,

    Rysz Rysz Apr 25, 2015 3:52 PM in response to sweetcaro
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    Apr 25, 2015 3:52 PM in response to sweetcaro

    Sounds like you either didn't migrate any iPhoto Library (just enabled iCloud Photo Library and/or Photo Sharing), or migrated the wrong, incomplete iPhoto Library. If that's the case, move the new Photos Library file to the Trash, then launch Photos while holding the Option key down and select your main iPhoto Library.

  • by sweetcaro,

    sweetcaro sweetcaro Apr 25, 2015 4:12 PM in response to Rysz
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    Apr 25, 2015 4:12 PM in response to Rysz

    that was it! Thank you!

  • by Chillvol,

    Chillvol Chillvol Apr 28, 2015 8:11 AM in response to sweetcaro
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    Apr 28, 2015 8:11 AM in response to sweetcaro

    I have not seen a response that corrects the issue with incorrect dates. I have images that were taken years ago that now have now have the "taken" date as the day I transferred my library from iPhoto to Photos. It's not my entire library, but many images were affected. Has anyone else had this issue and has anyone else with this issue found a resolution?

     

    Thank you for any help you can offer!

  • by keriah,

    keriah keriah Sep 16, 2016 7:36 AM in response to Winston Churchill
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    Sep 16, 2016 7:36 AM in response to Winston Churchill

    Winston Churchill wrote:

    In respect of the order, you are likely looking in the all photos album, which displays in the order photos are added and not the date they were taken.

    I just converted a library from iPhoto and the photos in the All Photos album are in a random order.  The first photo that had been added when the iPhoto Library was created (and the 1st photo added to the iPL) long, long ago is now in the middle of the AP album set.  Since they were all (technically speaking) "added" today then there is no sense or order to this album.

     

    I wonder if the All Photos album can be deleted and re-added (& populated will all the photos from Photos, a few at a time) to correct this?  Any ideas?  Thanks.

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