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where can i download iphoto 9.6.1?

The Fotos.app needs iPhoto 9.6.1. This version is not available in the AppStore. Where can I get it?

G4 867 MHz, Mac OS X (10.4.1)

Posted on Apr 13, 2015 12:39 AM

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Posted on Apr 15, 2015 9:56 PM

After trying Photos, I found too many missing features, so tried to go back to iPhoto, only to discover I couldn't!


I've also searched for the Photo 9.6.1 update, but it seems to have been removed from the App Store. I've made an appointment to talk with Apple tomorrow to ask them what's going on.


I found you can still run iPhoto by opening the package contents with Control-click on the App, then click on Show Package Contents, Contents, MacOS, iPhoto. But I don't know how stable this is. It seems to run just fine. But I'd like the 9.6.1 update just to be sure it's not going to trash my photos.

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Jul 22, 2015 9:50 AM in response to Terrell Smith

Bless you for posting your thoughts and methods on these forums! I've spent the past day trailing through the message boards to find a fix, and your post was the first thing that worked for me (create new user, uninstall, switch user, install.)


I was running into issues until I switched to the new user.... my main account was showing iPhoto as "Open" in the App Store; when I switched, I got the "install" button and was able to download 9.6.1.

Jul 30, 2015 7:56 AM in response to Matthias Liebler

This won't help most of you, but a Finder copy will work. In other words if you have the needed version (9.6.1) on another computer, you can delete the old version and copy over the 9.6.1 version. YMMV, but it worked for me for both Aperture and iPhotos on my wife's computer. (I used Aperture as the test case since she's an iPhoto user and didn't like Photos.)


Agreed that Apple made a big mistake on this one. I'm not sure how I was able to upgrade to Yosemite without upgrading iPhotos. I am good about updating apps and hard to imagine that it had showed up as a needed upgrade. But none the less as legal user of the software I should be able to upgrade it to work with Yosemite. This would be more tolerable if Photos was a decent upgrade to iPhoto, but it's either a downgrade or side grade for many of us.

Jul 30, 2015 8:47 AM in response to MtnBiker

I too ended up copying iPhoto 9.6.1 from another Mac with Yosemite when I upgraded my own Mac to OS X 10.10 and replaced it over the old version I had, I think it was 9.6x.


I concur that Apple made a mistake with Photos. If they was going to come out with a replacement to iPhoto, the replacement should be just has good feature wise or if Apple wanted to add features to Photos over time, they could have kept iPhoto around for those not comfortable with Photos yet. Also, when people upgraded to Yosemite there could be a notification that said iPhoto, and Aperture need to be updated to be compatible with 10.10.

Oct 5, 2015 6:08 AM in response to Matthias Liebler

Hi all, after some researching, I found that with El Captain (OS 10.11), iPhoto was substituted by Photo. In some instances like in my case, both apps for some reason remained installed after the upgrade. Keeping iPhoto doesn't seem to make much sense since Photo is the "new version/upgrade" for iPhoto, so instead of disabling the message that indicates upgrade and consistently fails on every try, I just deleted iPhoto from the apps folder. Photo remained installed and the upgrade message disappeared as iPhoto is gone. I believe this is the right approach, imho.

Hope it helps those that like me are facing the same problem.

where can i download iphoto 9.6.1?

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